With Banafsheh Sayyad's Namah Dance Company - Unseen Beloved (excerpts)
Prayer 7 (excerpts) with Namah Dance Company
Available At Performances: Call to Love (Baang-e Mehr)
Hermes 2008 - Release Delayed
1. Khaaneh-ye Del (Abode of the Heart)
2. Roo be roo (Face to Face)
3. Baang-e Mehr (Call to Love)
Track 1 contains text by Foud Kermani. Music is an old melody arranged by Pejman Hadadi.
Track 3 contains the an excerpt from the introduction of Ferdowsi's 'Shahnameh'. Music composed by Javid Afsari Rad, arranged by Zarbang.
Naghme-ye Khabgard "Dream Song"
Mahoor - 2007
Recorded live at the Göethe Institute, Munich, October 2004
1. Naghme-ye Khabgard
(Dream Song)
2. Pezhvak-e Davayer
(Cyclic Echoes)
3. Avaz-e Rast
4. Zarbi-ye Rast
5. Taknavazi ye Cajon
(Rumba de Cajon)
6. Seyr-e Aatash
(Cycle of Fire)
Tracks 1 & 4 are different recordings from those on Persian and Middle Eastern Percussion
2 & 3 are exclusive to this release
Persian and Middle Eastern Percussion
Arc Music - 2005
1. Zarbi-e Raast
2. Rumba de Cajon
3. Circle in Seven
4. Dream Song
5. Cycle of Fire
6. Cycling Feast
Tracks 1 & 4 are different recordings from those on Naghme-ye Khabgard
3 & 6 are exclusive to this release and feature the nay-anaban and sorna, respectively
Rengineh Mahoor - 2003
Recorded live 10 Nov 2002 at Muffat Halle, Munich
1. shaadyaneh
2. prelude
- opening to the practice of varzeshe baastaani (ancient Iranian martial arts practice).
3. Who is the One?
(Aan keest?)
4. Everyone has a Beloved
(Har kasikasi daarad)
5. Creation
(Aafarinesh)
6. The Yellow Bird
(Zard-e Malijeh) by A. Saba
7. Moonlit
8. Rhythm & Melody
9. Together
10. Rengineh
Texts 2-4 by Ferdosi, Hafez, Pooriyaye Vali and Baba Taher.
Zarbang was founded in 1996 by leading Iranian percussionists Behnam Samani, Morteza Ayan and Siavash Yazdanifar in Germany with the double aim of introducing Iranian percussion instruments to international audiences and combining them with percussive and melodic instruments from other cultures. Starting in 2001, a new lineup of musicians has given Zarbang renewed vitality and created innovations in its sound.
The new Zarbang includes Behnam Samani; Hakim Ludin, the virtuoso Afghan percussionist and resident of Germany who has a mastery over most Latin American, African, Indian and Afghani percussion instruments; the Iranian born, US resident, Pejman Hadadi, who is one of the foremost musicians on the Tombak, Daf and other percussion instruments; versatile Iranian percussionist Reza Samani, resident of Germany, who performs Iranian wood wind instruments, Ney-Anban and Zorna in addition to Tombak and Daf; Javid Afsari, a highly acclaimed Iranian Santur player and resident of Norway; and Morshed Mehregan, one of the most well known Morsheds of Iran on Zarb-e-Zoorkhane.
Zarbang's strength lies in its ability to create a new sound by fusing together instruments of various cultures while staying true to the essence and origin of each instrument. Zarbang's new sound entails the use of vocalization, melody and various effects in the context of percussion. The repertoire of composed pieces and structured improvisations are dynamic, meditative and internal on one hand and ecstatic and trance inducing on the other with the latter drawing upon Sufi and ancient Iranian rhythms where the Daf plays a pivotal role in inducing trance states. Zarbang's concert work sometimes includes dance, performed by Banafsheh Sayyad and her contemporary Iranian dance company, Namah, based in the US.
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