Best Music Of 2019
IRAN
Mehdi Yarrahi
"Pareh Sang"
Musicians who want to work in Iran have to walk difficult tightropes when dealing with the regime and bureaucrats who have the power to approve or deny public performances and recordings. Singer Mehdi Yarrahi — who received a best pop singer prize from Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance last year — crossed the line with an anti-war song, "Pareh Sang" (Broken Rock), in which he chroniclesthe devastation to his home region of Khuzestan during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, and how the province has never recovered. Before a live performance this July, censors reportedly asked Yarrahi to change the lyrics; he refused. So while his band played the instrumental music to "Pareh Sang" at the show, Yarrahi walked off the stage. His fans took up the charge, and sang the lyrics themselves — a profound and creative response to the attempted censorship.
[فقط کسانی که در سایت عضو شده اند قادر به مشاهده لینک ها هستند عضویت در سایت کمتر از 1 دقیقه ست. برای عضو شدن در سایت کلیک کنید...]
npr.org/2019/12/11/778227017/10-song-that-rallied-resistance-around-the-world
