Call to Love  (Zarbang)  - Released
    Zarbang is a collective of the finest percussionists from Iran and Afghanistan. Inspired by tribal rhythms, Zarbang utilizes instruments of various cultures while staying true to the essence and origin of each. This new sound entails the use of vocalization, melody and various effects in the context of percussion. Zarbang’s sound is dynamic, meditative and internal on one hand and ecstatic and trance inducing on the other, drawing upon Sufi and ancient Persian rhythms used for inducing altered states.
                 

Zarbang are:
Behnam Samani, Pejman Hadadi, Morshed Mehregan, Hakim Ludin, Javid Afsari Rad, Reza Samani

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                 Release  (Babak Sharifi, Pejman Hadadi)
                            forthcoming release
  Improvisations of Babak Sharifi (Divan) and Pejman Hadadi (Tombak) meet together based on Kurdish folk melodies from Iran, Turkey and Irak.
   The Album is scheduled to be released mid Dey 1387 (New Year's Eve, 2009) 
                 
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           Song of Sparrows  (Hossein Alizadeh) - Released
   Maestro Alizadeh’s compositions for a film by the same name (dir. Majid Majidi) in addition to his compositions inspired by the movie are gathered in this album.
   For the 3rd time in his career, Song of Sparrows brought Alizadeh the award for best original music from the Int'l Fadjr Film Festival (2007).The Movie itself will also represent the Iranian Cinema at the next edition of the Oscars for the "Best Foreign Language Film" category.

                 
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                    On the Wind  (Peyman Yazdanian)
                                    Released
  Featuring the original soundtracks of Reward of Silence (Maziar Miri), A Piece of Bread (Kamal Tabrizi) and Friday's Soldiers (Massoud Kimiai), Peyman himself explains:
  Other than my passion for writing film scores, I have a special relationship with each of the pieces in this collection. The atmosphere of Reward of Silence made it possible to pay homage to the magic wind instrument duduk. When the director of Friday's Soldiers painted the world of his movie for me, I started composing the score in a way that was diametrically opposed to the geography and lore of its setting. In A Piece of Bread I was inspired by a long forgotten maqam called Sahari, revived by my friend and cousin Kiya Tabassian. It allowed me to enter an abstract world of ancient music. All these were opportunities that the magic screen afforded me. 

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