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Farzad Golpayegani's band performed at BarisaRock Festival (Rock for Peace) in Istanbul/Turkey. Festival took place on August 2007.

lineup:

- Farzad Golpayegani: Electric Guitar

- Ali Sanaei: Bass Guitar

- Arash Jafari: Percussions

- Edward Wastnidge: Drums

Guest Artist:

- Mark LeVine: Electric guitar

To see some pictures of the concert check out the Band Photos.

Thanks to Avi, Yigit, Mark, Arash, Birgul, Ilkan, Soner, Hazal, Burcu, Nader, Mehmet and all the guys in BarisaRock.

Some improvisation jam sessions, in the Iranian Fusion Metal genre, gave the band motivation and curiosity for keeping the record of this improvisation experiences as a live recording. In the last days of May 2007, The band members including: Farzad Golpayegani (Electric Guitar), Soheil Danesh Eshraghi (Vocals), Edward Wastnidge (Drums), Arash Jafari (Kooze/Darbuka/Daf) and Ali Sanaei (Bass Guitar) did the first trial of live recording. One of the goals of this project was to finalize the results as an album to release but the lack of suitable conditions and facilities for recording affected the quality of the sound so this project will be done in the future.

To see some pictures of jam sessions check out the Band Photos.

To listen to a demo track from one of the practices click HERE.

Farzad Golpayegani's band in their Fusion concert including Exhibition of Farzad's Paintings

Farzad Golpayegani's band performed in their fusion concert. This event was held in January 2007 at Avini's Hall in Honarhaye Ziba School (School of fine arts)/Tehran University. Since the genre of this concert was Fusion, eastern Percussions was played instead of Drums. It was something like an Iranian Rock Unplugged..

Video Arts that consist of Farzad's paintings was playing during the performance too.

In addition some collections of Farzad's paintings was demonstrated as an Art Exhibition at the same time. This exhibition included over 50 paintings.

band line up for this concert:

- Naeim Meschian: Bass Guitar

- Vahid Sabet Ghadam: Daf, Tabla

- Soheil Danesh Eshraghi: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

- Arash Jafari: Koozeh

- Farzad Golpayegani: Electric & Acoustic Guitars

- Guest Player: Edward Wastnidge: Darbuka

For view some pictures of performance check Band Photos

IRANIAN INTERGALACTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL

Farzad held a gig in "IRANIAN INTERGALACTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL" performing at October 2006 in Zandam (The Netherlands).

Festival's website:

www.iranianmusicfestivals.com

Due to some problems Farzad couldn't go with his band and he playbacked the songs (instead of guitar parts that he played) with video clips that had been made by his paintings, and he played on it. it was a concert with a different visual performance. Some tracks from Albums "One", "Two" and "Three" was playing in that gig. For view some pics from that concert check Band Photos page.

There were 12 Iranian bands and musicians from Iran and Europe with various styles in that Festival. Goal of festival was make progress for new Iranian music styles instead of current commercial styles.

More information about this festival at:

www.radiozamaneh.com

www.zirzamin.se

Farzad had a little perform in Switzerland's Embassy in July 2006. He and "Ali Sardashti" (Iranian Percussion Player) played new versions of some tracks and some Improvise parts.

Also there were other bands with different styles in this program.

The second album of Farzad (Two) was going to be released by Bam Ahang Co. in May 2005 (only in Iran) but its license interned by relative ministry and it's releasing from August 2006.

This album includes 11 tracks. Like the previous one, this album is an Instrumental Fusion-Metal and it's is totally done by Farzad, and in two tracks "Kaveh Hamedanian" has played Cello.

Because the delay of releasing previous album , "Two" has been provided between 2004 and 2005.

Tracks of this album : 9 , 30 , 21 , 32 , 20 , 19 , 31 , 18 , 10 , 38 , 43

This album is officially Free to download as MP3 files. To purchase Physical CD please visit Store page or click here.

The first album of Farzad Golpayegani "ONE" is an Instrumental Fusion-Metal album. Farzad has composed, performed, recorded, mastered and even has designed album cover all by himself.

He personally has played 7-string electric guitar, Acoustic guitar and Bass guitar and for the percussion instruments, he has composed the notes by computer programming. No Eastern or Persian instrument has been used in entire record and all the eastern sounds and melodies are simulated and played with Acoustic guitar in an innovated tuning.

Name of the tracks are the numbers in song writer's track-list. The reason is the importance of Instrumental music and musical concept against understanding under track name's influence.

Although there are many difficulties for Rock and Metal Music in Iran, this album succeeded to be the first licensed album in this genre in Islamic Republic of Iran in 2002. But it faced many problems for distribution and had two years of latency and finally was released in 2004. After a while because of Rock music being banned by the authorities in Persian’s government the MP3 version of album was officially distributed free to download at Farzad’s official website.

Farzad Golpayegani's Band concerts (2003-04) :

4 June 2003 , Tehran , Farabi Hall

4 January 2003 , Tehran , Farabi Hall

4 January 2003 , Tehran , Farabi Hall (welfare concert for Bam earthquake with "Barad" , "Sarakhs" and "Babak Riahipour")

4 September 2004 , Tehran , Farabi Hall

Farzad Golpayegani's Band were :

- Farzad Golpayegani : 7th strings Electric Guitar & Acoustic Guitar
- Behrang Bashash : Bass Guitar
- Mahyar Vosoughi : Electric Guitar , Keyboard
- Mahyar Pour Hesabi : Drums
- Reza Shafeghati : Setar
- Amir Djadid-Al-Eslam : Tombak , Daf

to see photos of concerts click here

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