TehranAvenue Music Festival 86

This event takes place annually and it’s been around for a couple of years now. People from all over Iran come to take part here in 4 different genres of Classic, Fusion, Hip-Hop and Rock. I didn’t give the first three categories a try but I listened to all 39 songs in the Rock category. By the miraculous emerge of indie music all around the world bands and artists have found a chance to expose themselves to the public ear, the face of music has changed in a precious way as the recording companies vanish into thin air. There are people around here in Iran having high hopes on Persian rock (which is not even a genre indeed) but by having a quick glimpse over the participants, one can definitely lose his/her hope over this. I was so embarrassed to hear the bands here and I totally lost my hope. I can only “wish” for a better future in the next century perhaps. Looks like my fellow Persian musicians have a long road to walk to reach the starting gate. Only three songs included in this category were worth giving a try:

Firstly I’m so proud of my good friend Pooyan Tavasoli who speaks far beyond his Iranian contemporaries with his precious single “What Do You Think Of Red Pens?” alongside Bronwen Robertson on vocals and a genius supervision by Peyman Tavassoli making an exception to the rule of making nonsense music in Iran. The other two songs that made sense were Kian’s “Fereshteye Marg” with sweet mellow Iron and Wine-ish sound with accordion and a very diverse accent of Persian language with tastes of Five For Fighting. Sweet. And the other was “The Dark City” by Bijan Moosavi. And unfortunately that was all about this competition. I have no idea what’s all this fuss about 127 with hilarious lyrics. But I send my regards to the mentioned three. I decided to put a personal rate on each song so here’s my rating list for all 39 tracks. Click here to see it for yourself! (the list is not in a particular order)

127 - melate sarfaraz : 4/10
gibse - paranoias of a rascal : 0/10
pedram beheshti - come undone : 0/10
the yellow dogs - desert girl : 1/10
kian - fereshteye marg : 6/10
eyvan - in hossein kist? : 0/10
iman ghahremani - yeki dar miun : 0/10
gatchpazh - benzin : 1/10
free keys - dreaming : 5/10
mehdi mirzabagherian - though : 1/10
pharos - heina : 0/10
raha - sound of persian : 0/10
erma - believing a death : 0/10
5grs - run away : 2/10
visprad - seven seconds : 3/10
nariman masoomabadi - lump : 1/10
desert dream - beautiful world : 2/10
mavara - you are the breath / moment : 2/10
ginkgo - what do you think of red pens? : 9/10
kamran omid - house of the rising sun : 0/10
farzad ajori - dawn : 1/10
control - rooze ghiamat : 2/10
dash - kuzeh : 1/10
introvert - jozamia : 3/10
arashk - hawk : 1/10
mirza - fatso : 4/10
kuadramana - disaster suffer : 0/10
mirage - what I have to say : 3/10
ali yousefbeigi - tanhaii : 0/10
arsalan rajaian - bas kon : 3/10
the black lush - the black eagle : 0/10
tarantist - apostle of god : 1/10
bijan moosavi - dark city : 5/10
hasht - jesus : 3/10
blue highway band - night roamer : 1/10
2ins+1 - Dragon : 2/10
Soshyant - An Interested Ear : 0/10
kamran arashnis - as a robot gets blue : 1/10
reza gholami - sound of persian : 0/10