Percussion maestro Mohammad Reza Mortazavi is regarded as one of the most talented and virtuoso players of the Iranian goblet-shaped hand drum, the tombak. What he performs on this simple single-headed drum must be seen and heard to be believed. Here he is playing the Daf, another traditional Iranian drum on which he excels. Genuinely … Continue reading
The group Mehr Ban (the caretaker of the light), prove that Indian and Persian music share a long history of cross-inspiration. Mehr Ban is a musical dialogue between these two great musical traditions, a collaboration by world-renowned musicians Pandit Shubhendra Rao on sitar, Saskia Rao-de Haas on Indian cello, Ciavash Borhani on taar, Samer Habibi … Continue reading
Rowan Storm can speak and sing in several ME languages, she’s maintains a most singular relationship with music, with history with parallels. No wonder she is a respected teacher and performer notwithstanding her tutelage under several masters of different percussive instruments, one of whom is the great Master of Classical Persian music, Mohammad Reza Lotfi. … Continue reading
