Nowruz e Jamshid - Iranian Song

Also check out last year’s Nowruz song: Music & vocals by Farya Faraji, with more vocals by my mom, and lyrics by Ferdowsi. This is a song I’ve composed in celebration of our annual Iranian New Year of Nowruz, also celebrated throughout Iran, Afghanistan and Tadjikistan, as well as parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Nowruz is celebrated by a wide array of ethnolinguistic groups, some Iranic, like the Persians, Kurds, Baloch, etc, where the celebration originated, and it has spread to other groups such as Turkic groups, Georgians, etc. It originates in the beliefs of pre-Islamic Iranian civilisation, and marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the 21st of March on the Gregorian calendar. The visuals I filmed depict the “Sofre Haftsin,” a collection of objects that are associated culturally with Nowruz. The lyrics are from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, the Iranian national epic poem that is central to our mythology and culture. The specific section of the story deals with Jamshid’s reign, who was the fourth king of the world in the Shāhnāmeh’s take on Iranian mythology; he was a member of the Pishdadian dynasty, the first of all dynasties to rule the world at the onset of its creation. Lyrics in Early Modern Persian: Romanised lyrics: Cho khorshid-e tābān miyāne hava, Neshaste bar oo Shāhe farmānrava, Jahān anjoman shod bar takht-e oo, She gefti fooroo mānde az bakhte oo, Be Jamshid bar gohar afshāndand, Marān rooz-rā, rooz-e no, khāndand, Sare sāle no, hormoze farvadin, Barā sood-e az ranj rooye zamin, Bozorgān be shādi byarāstand, Meyo jāmo rāmeshgaran khāstand, Chonin jashne farrokh, az ān roozegār, Be mā mānd az ān Khosrovan yādegar! English translation: Like a luminescent sun in the sky, He sat on this throne, the king and general, The World gathered around his throne, And all wondered at his glory, To Jamshid they brought their gifts, Thus they sang this day Nowruz (the new day) On the new year on the first day of Farvadin, There was no more sorrow upon the Earth, The great ones presented themselves luxuriously, Wine and glasses they clamoured for, And thus this great festivity, Has come to us, as the legacy of the great Kings of old,