Persian CD

Here is an oddity, we went to Westfield in Shepherds Bush yesterday in order to check out the MI Store. Xiaomi's equivalent apple store for their phones and stuff.  We wanted a decent phone case for the new phone but they didn't do cases at all. 

Being a wasteland of hi end luxxe stores and other unedifying stuff we decided to look out onto the main high street and see what charity stores there were.   I got a horrible synth pop album which I ended up turning off halfway through and this Persian boi.

Front Cover

CD

Back Cover

Inlay with performer list.

It seems to be a style of traditional, instrumental Persian music played on Arabic instruments and they are pretty damn cool.  Its both instrumental and sorrowful at the same time, also the tracks themselves are pretty long, nothing under 10 minutes here.  I don't know if would be traditional to do this but would definitely a vocal track in places.  Maybe a dude lamenting lost love, or woes in life.

There are four tracks here, so without further ado I'll add what I believe to be name, style, and list of performers.

1. Taknavazan NO. 169
   "Dashti"
Freydoun Hafezi: Tar
Hassan Ali Daftari: Setar
Mansour Saremi: Santur
Mohammad Mousavi: Ney
Jahangir Malek: Tombak

2. Taknavazan NO. 183
   "Shour"
Asadollah Malek: Violin
Reza Varzandeh: Santur
Mansour Nariman: Oud
Jahangir Malek: Tombak

3. Taknavazan NO. 184
   "Chahargah"
Freydoun Hafezi: Tar
Mohammad Mousavi: Ney
Mansour Nariman: Oud
Jahangir Malek: Tombak

4, Taknavazan NO. 185
  "Shour"
Javad Maroufi: Piano
Homayoun Khorram: Violin