Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian & Behzad Varesteh - Improvisation Based on Sahari & Sama-e Sejaran Suites

Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian is a young Kurdish tanbur player from Kermanshah, a city in the mountainous western Iranian region of Horaman (هه‌ورامان). The son of a local instrument builder, he grew up surrounded by the local traditional music styles, studying with a number of well-known master musicians before recently entering university to study Persian classical music. Radio Khiyaban is very proud to be able to present “Songs of Horaman,“ Heydarian’s first record, as a testament to the artist’s wonderful talents. Recorded in the city of Karaj with the percussive assistance of family friend and long-time collaborator Behzad Varesteh, Heydarian’s debut includes a mixture of traditional tasnifs and maqams - thrilling and gorgeous tanbur pieces centered in the two musicians’ talent for extended improvisation and feeling.