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Sophisticated rock from the Iran of the 1970s, June 6, 2005
This review is from: Gol E Yakh (Audio CD)
There was full blown and free expresion pop music in Iran before the political events of 1978. Since in the early part of the 1970s, there was only one radio station, and the main programming manager was a highly sofisticated traditional musician and songwriter, it was very dificult to get radio airplay and consequently dificult releases had to be few and sophisticated. This situation favored more an orchestrated POP sound and so, unlike western countries, there was not much guitar focused ROCK. The only exception was Yaghmaee, which had to incorporate a sophisticated and nicely produced production in order to get airplay. As with Turkey's Erkin Koray, Yaghmaee incorporates into his rock style, local folk elements, but played on his electric guitar. The hammond organ playing is just amazing! So this is highly recommendable. The only low point on this compilation, is that it was poorly released on CD by Caltex Records in Los Angeles, without an informative booklet and without any information. Not to mention that the tracklist is incorrect.
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