Giti Pashaei — Rizeh Rizeh
from Shadi Ba Man Ghahre & Rize Rize (Apollon, 1971)
Here is another beautiful track from Giti Pashaei… this time with gypsy-style violins. Really fabulous, aside from the regrettable sound quality.
Check out last week’s post for a completely different sound from 1971. Unfortunately it’s been pretty hard to find decent-sounding recordings… no doubt my complete ignorance of Farsi contributes to that. Also, another explanation from the encyclopedic blog Radio Diffusion:
This is perhaps due in part to the political situation surrounding the music and culture, much of what was recorded prior to the 1978 revolution became illegal with the new regime and was destroyed when found by the police. Performers who had substantial careers prior to the revolution had to flee the country or risk persecution as even the simple act of a woman performing as a soloist became illegal, not to mention the performance of westernized Persian music that had become increasingly popular under the last years of the Shah. Records that you find now from that period in Iran have likely survived many hardships and they almost always show it in one way or another.
