Today we explore music from Iran that demonstrates its ongoing evolution. Almost all of the tracks are based around vocals and feature the supporting complexities of Iranian Rhythm and percussion.

Tracklist:
Label: Accords-Croises
Album: "Ivresses/Rapture - the Rite of Khayyam"
Artists: Dorsaf Hamdani and Alireza Ghorbani
1) Amoureux

Album: "Songs of Rebirth: A Tribute to Rumi"
Artist: Alireza Ghorbani
2) Tar o Avaz

Album: "Ivresses/Rapture - the Rite of Khayyam"
Artists: Dorsaf Hamdani and Alireza Ghorbani
3) The Rite of Khayyam

Album: "Calligraphies Vocales-Art of Persian Classical Song"
Artists: Daryoush Taa'i/Djamchid Chemirani
4) Pishdaramid

Album: "The Rhythm of Speech II"
5) Esfahan
6) Bahare' Delkach (Le Printemps)

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. From Dennis Darrah at WGDR, Goddard College Plainfield, VT.