Farya Faraji makes new music that is also reeeeally old.
The several thousand year-long history of Iran goes hand in hand with several thousand years of Iranian music-making. Folk musicians have surely been singing in their homes and villages since the dawn of time, though until the modern age classical musicians primarily performed in the royal court–in fact Wikipedia’s “Music of Iran” page claims that, “the period of Xosroparvis reign [590 AD to 628 AD] is regarded as a ‘golden age of Iranian music.’” Guess it’s all been downhill from there. The music of the song in this video, “Dildārāgān,” is not ancient — Farya Faraji composed it for the album “Songs of Old Iran” — but the lyrics are a translation of “Ghazal number 5,” a work by 14th century early Modern Persian poet Hafez. That’s pretty old…right?
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