Toranj
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Toranj was singer-songwriter
Mohsen Namjoo
's official debut in 2007, as none of his previous albums were allowed for legal release by Iranian governmental authorities. The album featured nine traditional folk songs, including poems from Hafez
, Molana (Rumi), Baba Taher
and Attar.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Mohsen Namjoo
Mohsen Namjoo
Mohsen Namjoo, , is an Iranian musician, singer-songwriter. born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, a small town in northeastern Iran. The New York Times called Namjoo "Iran's Bob Dylan".-Career:...
's official debut in 2007, as none of his previous albums were allowed for legal release by Iranian governmental authorities. The album featured nine traditional folk songs, including poems from Hafez
Hafez
Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī , known by his pen name Hāfez , was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day...
, Molana (Rumi), Baba Taher
Baba Taher
Baba Tahir, was an 11th century poet in Persian literature and mystic.-Biography:Baba Tahir is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Iranian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He was born and lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan Province in...
and Attar.
Track listing
- "Toranj" - Poems by HafezHafezKhwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī , known by his pen name Hāfez , was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day...
and KhajuKhwaju KermaniKhwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.-Life:He was born in Kerman, Iran in 24 December 1290.... - "Ro Sar Beneh be Balin" - Poem by Molavi
- "Talkhi Nakonad" - Poem by Molawi
- "Vava Layli" - Poem by Baba TaherBaba TaherBaba Tahir, was an 11th century poet in Persian literature and mystic.-Biography:Baba Tahir is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Iranian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He was born and lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan Province in...
- "Tarsam ke ..." - Poem by Hafez
- "Del Miravad" - Poem by Hafez
- "Joreh Baz" - Poem by Baba Taher
- "dar Mian-e Jaan (Vang Vang)" - Poem by AttarAttarAbū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm , better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ‘Attār , was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nīshāpūr who had an abiding influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.-Biography:Information about Attar's life is rare...
- "Zolf" - Poem by Hafez