Coming Soon!

I'm working on this interview for Peyk in Farsi and Iranian.com in English. He is brilliant!

Last Friday of Summer

Two of my favorite artists perform something fabulous together and I thought I should share it with you on this last Friday morning of the summer! This song, dast maneh bar dahanam (do not keep me from talking), based on a Rumi (Molana) poem, is one of the songs Hafez Nazeri made for his father in his Passion of Rumi album. I did a review of that album last winter. Here is performing with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Iran 2006. Maestro Loris Tjeknovarian is conducting. Here's my short interview with Loris in which he talked to me about love and women last spring.

Enjoy and have a good Friday you all!

Hamed Nikpay

My interview with Hamed Nikpay was published in Peyk’s Issue 110. Peyk is the publication of Persian Cultural Center in San Diego. You can look at that piece here for the Farsi text (Page 17) and here for the English text (also on Page 17). I had promised it in May when I had a post about this young artist. In the meantime, you can watch and listen to Hamed here, here and here (his website also has selections of his music). One thing I can say about Hamed Nikpay—in addition to his beautiful voice and music, this young man also has an impressive personality, full of hope, excitement and passion, and his honesty and optimism are sparkling and contagious. Those of you who live around here, don’t lose a chance to go see him onstage when he has a concert sometime later this summer. He is electric!