Wow!
I was beginning to think that I didn't like any of the choices here.
this one floored me!
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Female Vocals: Stunning Recordings You Love
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I was beginning to think that I didn't like any of the choices here.
this one floored me!
JeremyFife
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Arooj Aftab - from Night Reign - the whole album is utterly captivating. I somehow don't notice that I don't understand the words. Beautiful (and fabulous playing)
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Never heard of her but she certainly has some lungs on her!
Her vocal range is indeed stunning, one of the best female singers.
JustAnandaDourEyedDude
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Nahal Ladani covers Shervin Hajipour's song Baraye
Soprano Manuela Dumfart in Linz, Austria, covers Baraye. Such power in this performance, and such commitment to sound natural in the pronunciation:
Manuela Dumfart is beside herself with joy in presenting her version of the Flower Duet from Lakme:
ifa (group? singer?) cover Baraye in a no-holds-barred Metal version:
Soprano Manuela Dumfart in Linz, Austria, covers Baraye. Such power in this performance, and such commitment to sound natural in the pronunciation:
Manuela Dumfart is beside herself with joy in presenting her version of the Flower Duet from Lakme:
ifa (group? singer?) cover Baraye in a no-holds-barred Metal version:
JustAnandaDourEyedDude
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The singer Gita sings Gole Sangam (Persian song). It has been covered by many singers, but I find most versions to be labored or oversung. The nostalgic video clip from some classic Iranian movie gives this video the edge over a YT video with just a static image of Gita. If you do not understand Persian (I do not), if you look up a translation of the lyrics online, it is a song of unrequited love, with the feelings of "duende" in Spanish.
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Apologies for the (very!) late reply. Life intervened, and will apparently continue to do so. I am no expert on Persian music, nor do I understand Farsi. Over the years I have occasionally bought CDs of Persian music, thus expanding my familiarity with it. The YouTube recommendation engine is pretty good, and one can discover much previously unfamiliar music with it. Many notable Persian singers have been cited in this ASR thread, including the Vadat sisters. In this couple of posts, I will mention a couple of singers that I do not recall have been mentioned on ASR. The first is Darya Dadvar, who was born and grew up in Iran, but immigrated to France at an early point in her career (thus the nigh perfect French accent). I was fortunate to buy her three CDs of Live recordings off Amazon back when CDBaby still pressed CDs, and have listened to them repeatedly over the years. She sings Persian folk songs with her operatically trained creamy soprano voice but with jazz arrangements with super jazz accompanists. Here is a Persian folk song titled "Mikham beram kooh":
Here is a remarkable version of Autumn Leaves that uses three languages, French, English and Farsi (the previous record was held by Kishi Yoko with a mixed Japanese and French version):
Here is possibly the loveliest folk/pop/jazz song I have heard in many a year, titled Navaee:
Here is the traditional song Tabe Banafsheh, but Darya's rendition is spellbinding; listen all the way through to the end:
Here, Darya covers the mixed French-Persian language song Yade Man Kon made famous by much earlier and stellar Persian singer Bahare Delkash (dominant theme: it is madness that he said these beautiful words to love to me, yet he did not take his own life when in spite of his love he left me ...):
Here is the song (of Afghan origin) Sarzamin-e-Man:
Darya does not rest on her laurels. Here is a recent refined expression of her mature period:
Here is another recent superlative expression presumably titled Oun Vaghta:
JustAnandaDourEyedDude
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In September of 2017 the following extraordinary CD album appeared on Amazon, during my routine weekend check for new music. I bought it sight unseen, and have never regretted the decision. The album is titled "tar-o-pood", which translates to "Warp and Weft", and is subtitled "a musical adaptation of nezami's epic love poem Khosrow and Shirin", the adaptation seemingly by Setar maestro hamid motebassem. The principal singer is Mahdieh Mohammad-khani. The album consists of ten tracks:
The following tracks are highlights, but really the entire album is an outstanding artistic achievement, and is best listened to from beginning to end, when it is stupefying in its beauty.
Hekayat
Shirin
Rooz
the climactic Pood
If you search YouTube for "Mahdieh Mohammadkhani", you will see that she has become a force majeure in Persian music despite having to work within the confines of being a female singer in present-day Iran. A huge body of outstanding musicianship, including her work with the Dastan and Mahbanoo ensembles.
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The album The West Against the People has contributions from the inestimable Die Tödliche Doris (so good I did a radio special about them years ago. didn't know they were active still/again) and from the incalculable Felix Kubin (friend and early Gas Giants guest).
Yeah, that's awesome, that was the first time I heard her, that video - I first saw that video sometime in 2021 & then I bought all her albumns since. Some of the albumns are better than others, but there's always some good tracks on there - fantastic voice, bit of an unusual persona, but I like her but don't buy into the crazy fandom. I really like the Electronica side & soundscape that is often created in her recordings along with her voice - I think they do some high quality recordings in general on a technical level too. Yeah, so that video, I was a Massive Attack fan & then I saw that vid & I thought that's better than the original, absolutely fantastic, gave me goosebumps the first time I listened to it, and once in while since then!
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