Various Artists - This Is Tehran? (2021)

Tehran - Iran's cultural melting pot with a population of 15 million. There is a broad and lively music scene here, about which little is known in the West. Here, traditional music from Baluchistan in the south or Kurdistan in the west meets the hip trends of the metropolis.

This Is Tehran? invites you to discover this music scene and marvel at its diversity. From Contemporary Classical Sounds with Saba Alizadeh on the Iranian spiked fiddle Kamanche or Siavash Molaeian together with Kasra Faridi on the piano to the well-known experimental electronic musician Ata "Sote" Ebtekar.

The electronic beats of a cooperation of Ehsan Abdipour and Andreas Spechtl stand naturally next to almost jazzy sounds of a Parastoo Ahmadi or Mina Momeni. The Otagh Band invites you to the dark, trip-hop laden Rotenburg, which they wrote about the cannibal of Rotenburg.

This Is Tehran?: a showcase of Iranian music that makes one curious and invites you on a musical journey, as we have certainly not imagined!

Tracklist:
1.01 - Saba Alizadeh - I May Never See You Again (Single Version) (3:46)
1.02 - Ehsan Abdipour - Sorna Lorestan (2:36)
1.03 - Hooshyar Khayam, Bamdad Afshar - Chār (2:46)
1.04 - Otagh Band - Rotenburg 2020 (5:38)
1.05 - Pedram Babaiee - Et Cetera (4:21)
1.06 - Sote - Pipe Dreams Metempsychosis (6:45)
1.07 - Parastoo Ahmadi - Balal Balalom (2:14)
1.08 - Rojin Sharafi - Naked City (5:26)
1.09 - Siavash Molaeian, Kasra Faridi - Kolber (6:03)
1.10 - Mina Momeni - Divar (3:44)