First of all... HAPPY NEW YEAR!Entering 2009 I offer my first purely music post in a while... A collection of songs by the singer Parvin entitled Ghoghaye Setaregan.
I don't have all that much to say about this album except that I really like it. As per usual with older artists from outside of the English-speaking world, it's kind of hard to find info about them, unless you have some keywords in that particular language to work with. Even then, sometimes, it's hard to find too many hits on Google.
To my ears, this Persian vocalist sounds like she comes from the generation behind Googoosh, Firoozeh and the 60's-70's era of Persian music. This guess is mainly based on the tone of the recording, and her delivery which is markedly more distended than many later singers. The song forms are a bit longer too and employ traditional Persian scales more obviously than the vaguely more Westernized music produced later on.
The real draw is Parvin's bold, dark-hued voice. Not unlike her Arab contemporary, Oum Kolthoum, her voice is almost androgynous, sitting comfortably in the mid to upper range of a tenor voice with immense power, but with a timbre that is not readily identified as either male or female.
Enjoy it here!
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