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Our new 7" has been released on Holocene Music! We've reinterpreted "Hejrat" by Googoosh on one side, and "Sprout and the Bean" by Joanna Newsom on the other. Googoosh was the most celebrated pop-singer of Iran during the 1970's before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Afterwards, most pop-music was banned from the country and Googoosh herself went into a 20-year silence. Many Iranians fled to the United States and Europe, and Googoosh's voice resonated as the soundtrack of their former lives. The song "Hejrat" translates to "Migration", and is commonly interpreted as a song of mourning for a lover that has departed. We hoped to reframe it as a medium for telling the story of Iran itself and the many diasporic Iranians. As we explored the project and uncovered layers, we were surprised at the number of ways Googoosh's tale was contrasted, mirrored, and amplified by themes embedded in Joanna Newsom's deeply moving "The Sprout and the Bean." Both songs speak to a displacement, a search for place or identity, that could be interpreted at the individual or cultural level, and we find that the pairing ties two worlds together in a deeply moving way, at a time when political rhetoric unfortunately escalates to the opposite extreme. CLICK HERE TO ORDER |
| 10/5/08 | 8PM | |
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w/ Iron and Wine (solo) | |
| 10/6/08 | Time TBD |
McDonald Theatre Eugene, OR // 21+ |
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w/ Iron and Wine (solo) | |
| 10/7/08 | Time TBD |
Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia // 19+ |
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w/ Iron and Wine (solo) | |
| (click HERE for a complete list of shows -- past and future) | ||