Mehrpooya: Ghayeghran

I bought this album by some guy Mehrpooya after trying unsuccessfully to download a torrent. I read about him on some NPR blog about weird psychadelic music and african funk so I decided to check this fool out.

Mehrpooya is from Iran and I think the album, Ghayeghran, is from the 1970's, when there was a lot of unrest in that country. The United States had a sort of puppet Shah in place to help encourage a Democracy which brought in a shitload of western influences, years before the 1979 revolution threw the country into what has been essentially a thirty year dictatorship. There was a lotta beef between the generations; the kids exposed to all these new influences and the older more conservative peeps. There were young horny folk who wanted to express themselves! Yeaaah! And a lotta lame old folk weren't happy bout it. Booo!

Passion and creative energy to unite foreign influences are obvious on Ghayeghran, and you sit wondering, where have I heard stuff like this before? It's that type of music that defies genres, wandering through various themes to create seamless blend of trippy hallucinatory impressions perfect for a person on a shitload of LSD; though I'd be careful bout getting sucked into a bad trip. Or maybe you're just supposed to be entranced, because I found it very hard to listen to the album lightly. Either way, Mehrpooya is innovative in his blend of whatever he could find; I hear some Sitar, classical music, Jazz, French Accordian, Surfer Rock, Funk, Soul, who knows what else, and I dont even know anything about Iranian music or Persian stuff but there's a lot of that in there. And I don't speak Farsi so I'm not even sure what Mehrpooya be talking about.

Good album to put on if you feel like taking bong hits by yourself and possibly crying a little. Really good if you like doing mushrooms and hiding by yourself in a closet. But a little too spaced out for my taste and not in a good way. Overall, the album is a bit scattered, and hard to listen to if you're not in the right mood. But if you like unique music that you should probably listen to under the influence of foreign substance, then definitely purchase Ghayeghran

Songs I like: Khal Siyah, Ghabilah Laili

Price: $7.99

Rating: 6.8/10