Farzad had an extended interview with The Box Podcast (in Farsi) and discussed his early influences, his collaborations experiences, his approach to his work and music career in general.
Part one:
Part two:
Tag: Iran
Interview with Siamak Pourzand Foundation
Check out this podcast for my recent interview (in Farsi) with Siamak Pourzand Foundation. Many thanks to Gleb Zhukov and Ehsan Moghadasi.
“Rockestan” launched
Rockestan offers consultant, release, promotion, compose, mix, mastering, web design, cover design, logo design and related services for Persian Rock and Metal musicians inside Iran.
Rockestan has constructed by Farzad Golpayegani.
For more information please visit official website of Rockestan at:
Find other pages of Rockestan at:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rockestan
MySpace: www.myspace.com/rockestan
ReverbNation: www.reverbnation.com/label/rockestan
Farzad’s phone interview at “Ruye Khat” by VOA PNN
[Farzad’s interview starts at 15:02]
Farzad’s Articles in zirzamin.com
Farzad has started writing articles (in Farsi) in zirzamin.com from November 2010.
Find the first article “Songwriting in Rock and Metal” at:
Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Role of Medias to promote and find more audience
Influence of digital technology in music production
Zirzamin is an Iranian online music magazine and the project concept is to create a forum to connect the new wave of Iranian independent musicians and bands, both inside and outside of Iran, to the Iranian public and the world.
Painting Exhibition at Golzadeh Art Gallery
Farzad Golpayegani’s Paintings at Golzadeh Art Gallery / October 30th to November 4th 2009 / 4 – 8 P.M. / Unite 8 , No. 3 , Sharifi Alley , Behrouz St. , Madar (Mohseni) Sq. , Mirdamad Boulevard , Tehran , Iran
Fusion Concert
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:
- Farzad Golpayegani: Electric & Acoustic Guitars
- Naeim Meschian: Bass Guitar
- Vahid Sabet Ghadam: Daf, Tabla
- Soheil Danesh Eshraghi: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
- Arash Jafari: Koozeh
Guest Player:
- Edward Wastnidge: Darbuka
For view some pictures of performance check Band Photos
“Two”
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 produced between 2004 and 2005.
This album is officially Free to download as MP3 files. To purchase Physical CD please visit Store page or Farzad’s store at Reverbnation.
Cover:
A little Performance..
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.
“One”
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.
This album is officially Free to download as MP3 files. To purchase Physical CD please visit Store page or Farzad’s store at Reverbnation.