A review
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Nassir Mashkouri
December/ 2005
www.interconnect-iranian.com
The good thing about music festivals, especially the
kind of electronic festival like TAMF, is that you get to feel the pulse of the
new wave of the Iranian music scene. And I think I should admit the fact that
it gave me enough motivation to go on and write this review. I believe that's
the reason why the directors of TAMF prepared the
third round of the Tehran Avenue Music Festival. They wanted to give us some
motivation and hope, and help us believe in this movement by creating a
platform where everyone, no matter what they have to say or how they say it,
are able to express themselves, and that is hope. Specially these days that there isn't much hope left. This
is the only place in our divided Iranian community where you can feel liberty.
No restrictions whatsoever. These guys are experimenting with their and our
limitations and pushing it to the point where it feels chaotic sometimes.
The first
moment that I visited the homepage of the Tehran Avenue Music Festival, I can't
say that I liked what I saw. A long list of names and titles
of songs, which didn't make any sense at all. I felt lost. There was
absolutely no information about any of those bands or musicians to help us
(visitors) to orient ourselves and start to do what we were there for,
"listening and voting". I just left the page immediately and it took
a while for me to go back in there and start digging again.
I was
vigilant and goal-oriented, therefore I could adjust
myself to the surroundings and environment of the whole page. But when I think
of those new visitors that happen to go there by accident or through some kind
of curiosity then I am not sure if the design of the TAMF
and organization of the page was a perfect idea.
So many bands
and so many musicians with so many different styles and qualities needed a
whole lot of time to look in to and get used to. Now that it has been a while
since the voting has ended, I can push the play bottom on my window media
player and listen to those tracks that I have chosen among the other tracks
which are saved on my computer.
What I am
trying to explain here is that, what was missing in the page was a sort of
organizing list where we could at least find some information about where or
which country this band are from. Plus some other relevant
information. Believe me it makes a whole lot of difference.
However there
were lots of interesting creative sounds in the festival that gave a ray of
hope to the TAMF concept and dragged me out of my
disappointment. The first track that got my attention and kept me in the
listening page was by Abdi with Pesar Amoojoon. It is
an unconventional and ironic track with a psychedelic rock sound (Pink floydish!). The track is unusual and somehow very
interesting even if the lyric don't say much!. There
is something about these ironic lyrics that has become a trendy thing in our
modern song writing culture these days. Is it ignorance or is it an escape from
the reality of life or is it a lack of freedom? In this case I think it's all
together and it sounds cool.
The other
impressive track, which grabbed my attention, was BSVR
and a track called 'Hey you'. These guys are really bloody angry! And they
definitely rocked the TAMF up. They have made the
first Persian punk rock track ever and they sing it in Persian which is the
only reason that it is of more interest to me.
Here are some
of the fine and good quality tracks that I think, they could get to the level
of popularity very easily, "If", we had a music industry that
operated the way it should do:
1. 127/Miss You
2. Mehrad/Be Omid e To
3. Creep/Perfect G!
4. Halazoon/Beezseed
5. Kohan/Bardasht
The list is
long, but here are four tracks amongst my favorites
that have the kind of sound which oversteps the norms and traditions both
musically and lyriclly, and are in Persian which I
still believe that we should give more credit to:
1. Abdi/ Pesar Amoojoon
2. BSVR/ Hey You
3.
Arsalan/ Ajoozeh
4.
Hich Kas/ Baa Ham
Let's remind
ourselves that without
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