Nassir Mashkouri

The Multicultural Meetings Music Festival

Nassir Mashkouri

2006

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The Multicultural Meetings Music Festival was a weekend filled with many multicultural interactions and ideas towards crossing over cultural boundaries. It was a festival where you could experience ancient traditions mixed with modern popular culture in the form of brilliant compositions through music and dance. The music festival happening at the Concert hall of Gothenburg city in Sweden, was a perfect scene to ensure the fact that cultures and civilizations can meet in order to blend with one another and create a new form of musical and artistic language that all of us can understand and enjoy.

I was very impressed by seeing so many shows by so many bands and musicians from different countries and cultures, and still so exciting, colorful and peaceful in the world that being from different cultures reminds us the color of blood and misery.

This fantastic event represented countries like: Iraq, Iran, Indian, Afghanistan, Sweden, Cuba and Norway.

In this multicultural music festival, besides all the other musicians from around the world, I was mostly curious to see Henrik Nagy perform on stage, in his own hometown of Gothenburg. A talented Swedish guitar player and musician with an impressive and powerful voice that gives him a rock star status. Henrik is one of the few musicians from the west that has been working with a fusion of Persian traditional music and rock music while living in Iran for more than 3 years. He has collaborated with traditional and contemporary Iranian musicians such as Reza Abaee (Qeyshak), Pasha Hanjani (Ney) and Darshan Anand (Tabla). In these past 3 years he managed to start a project called "the Henrik Nagy band" in Tehran and create a style that can be called world fusion rock.

He became so interested in Persian literature that he decided to use the poems of the great Persian poet "Hakim Omar Khayam" translated in English by Edward Fitzgerlad (1809-1883) as the lyrics for his musical journey. And the result I saw was crystal clear: pure western modern blues melted into Persian traditional music philosophy.

The Abjeez performed there too and played their positive and rhythmic Persian contemporary world pop that naturally reaches out to the audience beyond the norms of any cultural boundaries.

In the second evening on November 12, 2006 the festival program was more focused on traditional music. The famous tar- and Setar virtuoso Mr Hossein Alizadeh played both classical and modern compositions with Pejman Hadadi on percussions. The show was followed by the Indian traditional performances of Rajeeb Charkarborty on Sarod and Kousic Sen on Tablas. The show was completed when the rhythmic and meditational music of the world famous percussion ensemble Zarbang was performed.

The whole project was directed by a devoted Iranian with a loving personality by the name of Rasoul Nejadmehr. He is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, The Friedrich Nietzsche Society (UK), Philosophy of Education Society (USA) and a member of the national association committee for folklore music and dance in Sweden. He also works as the multicultural general counsellor in the west Götalands region in Sweden.

These kinds of multicultural festivals are definitely the perfect platform where one can experience the brilliance of world globalisation as a concept, at a time when the lies of the corrupted international media gives us wrong impressions of the whole process of globalisation. Events like this one make me still believe in future!

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