Mazgani
Shahryar Mazgani ( born 1975 in Tehran ) is an Iranian- Portuguese rock musician. He is attributable to the Americana style of music.
Life
With the government takeover in 1979 Khomeini left the parents of Shahryar Mazgani Iran because they feared as members of the persecuted Baha'i religion repression. Thus came Mazgani 1980 as a five year old with his parents to Portugal. They moved to Setúbal, where his parents had friends, and where Mazgani lived ever since. In the home he spoke Persian, but he is Portuguese as their mother tongue to, due to his growing up in Portugal.
He admits to be always been a friend of Americana music and calls in particular Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Nick Cave as important influences. At the age of 20 he taught himself guitar and started with 30 his musical project, which he has since Mazgani calls. Previously, he completed a degree in law, and worked as a journalist and screenwriter.
Since 2005 he has performed regularly in public. In 2007 he released his first album, Song of the new heart. The 2009 released EP Tell the people was recorded in a remote studio in Vila Velha de Ródão and produced by Dead Combo musician Pedro Gonçalves. They attracted the attention of critics in Portugal by his, the blues - roots facing toward tere development compared to more conventional debut album. The French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles counted Mazgani then the most promising new name of the European music scene, and he finished in third place in the International Songwriting Competition in 2009, in the jury, inter alia, Tom Waits sat.
In 2010 he wrote the music for the staged at the Teatro Aberto play Sr.Puntila eo seu criado Matti ( after Brecht Puntila and his Man Matti ), which won a Globo de Ouro. The next album song of Distance, which was simultaneously recorded with the songs of the EP and produced, and also appeared in Germany in Broken Silence distribution, briefly reached the Portuguese charts.
In April 2012, had the documentary The road to Mazgani the Portuguese director Pedro Rui Tendinha premiere at DocLisboa Film Festival. The 44 minutes long documentary follows Mazganis band of their samples to the tour that took them through different countries of Europe.
His 2013 released album Common Ground took Mazgani in Bristol, UK on, produced by John Parish, and among other things, with the former Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds drummer Mick Harvey as a guest musician. The piece Distant Garden was the first single from it.
Discography
- 2007: Song of the new heart ( album )
- 2009: Tell the people (EP)
- 2010: Song of distance (Album)
- 2013: Distant Garden ( Single)
- 2013: Common Ground (Album)