An album
review on "Kiosk" debut album "Adam-e Mamooli"
Nassir Mashkouri
2005
www.zirzamin.se
Kiosk; what
a great name it is for a band. Who cares if
Seriously,
the whole album is so perfectly arranged and produced, with nine innovative,
forthright and intellectual lyrics that wont let you
pay any attention to the music style that it is based on. Everything just fits
fine.
Oh, there
must be something that I can criticise!. I supposed to
find the weaknesses and bring it up to surface, but what can I say! I love it.
There have been other reviews on the Kiosk album by "Behrouz
Bahmany" and "Parham Nik-Eteghad"
and I am not sure if there is more that I can review
on this album. It is like going to a party, where everyone wants to be a part
of it and celebrate the birth of an "Ordinary" album that can be a
start of a new era in our popular music scene and more importantly our modern songwriting style. Congratulation guys, lets PARTY!!!
This album
is one of those things that you have always wished to take place on this scene.
Having said that, Arash the leader of Kiosk clearly knows the sound he is going
for and he achieves it admirably. He makes you believe that Mark Knoppfler could be an Iranian musician and Leonard Cohn
could also be a poet from somewhere in down town of
What we have
here is a rock album with a blend of 70s and 80s blues sound, followed by an
ordinary voice of an ordinary singer/ songwriter who writes his own down to
earth ordinary lyrics with socially aware context. The songs go directly in to
your mind, just like a bullet and make you think. This could be the first time
that an Iranian music album in the history of our popular culture, takes you
down to the reality of our Iranian life style and then makes you realize, the
mess that we have all been ending up in and the only way out is to find your
own ordinary "You".
The album
catalogues the spectrum of experiences and emotions in the everyday lives of
ordinary Iranian people. It is a diary and thoughts of a poet who describes the
boring, confusing life style and the cultural and political condition of his
own time in
At first
you may find the songs funny and superficial but you will soon hear the tragedy
of the whole concept, which is "our life".
No doubt
that this brilliant album is definitely the best Iranian alternative album of
the year 2005.
استفاده از
این اثر با
ذکر منبع
بلامانع است.
تمام
حقوق این سایت
متعلق به نویسنده
است.