Ghaval Solo by Dr. Peyman Nasehpour

New ghaval solo by Dr. Peyman Nasehpour in 6 beats

Dedicated to the people of Azerbaijan suffering from the recent earthquake

Ghaval Solo by Peyman Nasehpour

This is a ghaval solo by Peyman Nasehpour based on Yalli rhythm cycle in Azerbaijani music. This Azeri frame drum solo is also available here:

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Persian Tonbak and Irish Bouzouki

Two Japanese musicians Yamada Tomoaki on Custom Irish Bouzouki and Shimizu Leo on Persian Tombak play the following nice music in the form live duo:

Leo-san was my student in tonbak and Azeri frame drum, ghaval. This is a small piece he plays on his ghaval mixing ghaval and daf techniques:

Naich Restaurant in Tehran

A couple of music friends invited me to meet them in Naich restaurant, Tehran. The old guy – who was working there – sang for us a couple of old songs and played ghaval (Azerbaijani frame drum), when he noticed that we were all in music and he also explained to me that the benefits of the restaurant is spent for old people in a nursing home (a retirement home).

The address of this special restaurant – that offers Persian food – is as follows:

Naich Restaurant, Atarodi St., Mofatteh St. (Between Shiroudi Sport Complex and Taleghani St.)

I hope people will support this restaurant and the kind idea behind that. Naich seems to be the ancient name of Nay (Ney) – the Persian flute.

Private Daf Lessons by Fardin Alaei

Private Daf Lessons by Fardin Alaei in Karaj and Tehran, Iran:

David Kuckhermann performs hang solo

German percussionist David Kuckhermann plays a nice hang solo in seven beats:

For more info on David check his website out: http://www.framedrums.net/

Azeri Tar Originated in Persian Tar

Some try to separate Azeri culture from Persian culture by labeling it Turkish (What is sad is that Turkish and Persian cultures have also many things in common). The fact is that Azeri culture is more related to Persian culture than any other cultures. Azerbaijani people like Persians celebrate Nowruz (Persian new year celebration) and their music modal system, known as mugam, is just Azeri version of Persian modal system known as dastgah. Mohammad Reza Darvishi, researcher of Persian regional music, in his famous book, Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran, p. 267 writes: “Mugham system in the music of Azerbaijan, is very similar to the Persian dastgah system and both systems have the same root. More precisely Azerbaijani mugham music is the Azerbaijani version of Persian dastgah music.” In fact Turkish Makam is less related to Azeri Mugham than Persian dastgah.

Some notes about Azeri music instruments

Kamancha performed in Azerbaijan is just the Azeri version of Persian kamancheh. Kaman in Persian language means bow and “cheh” is Persian diminutive suffix.

Balaban is also a Persian instrument since the word “balaban” is the combination of “ba”, “lab” and “an” that respectively means “with”, “lib” and “the sign of plural form in Persian language”.

Ghaval also known as daf, the Azeri frame drum, is just the Azeri version of dayereh, ancient Persian frame drum.

Azeri Tar was invented by Sadigjan, Azeri musician, using Persian Tar. The cultural links between Azerbaijani and Persian culture is so deep that one cannot separate them from each other.

More information can be found in the following articles:

Kamancheh: http://nasehpour.tripod.com/peyman/id51.html

Mugham Music: http://nasehpour.tripod.com/peyman/id125.html

Sadigjan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadigjan

Parham Nasehpour Tar Setar Kamancheh Player: http://www.parhamnassehpoor.com/

Resource of the picture: http://www.santoori.com/