Samavayo Post “Talagh” Video; Live Shows Announced
Berlin trio Samavayo have begun to announce live dates to support their latest album, Pāyān (review here), which came out in March and is apparently already on its third pressing through Noisolution. Not too shabby. The advent of shows is of particular note since, had all gone according to plan Samavayo would have headed out on an extensive run as direct support for Kyiv-based outfit Stoned Jesus.
Of course, all did not go to plan, and as much as one might like to think of art as separate from real-world concerns, it’s simply not. That tour got canned because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, and while of course the stakes are higher than not being able to promote a record when there’s loss of human life and autonomy involved, the ways in which these effects ripple outward are myriad. A butterfly flapping its wings, and so on. Only this time it’s tank treads.
As I understand it — and I’m in pretty regular touch with Samavayo‘s Behrang Alavi, since his company hosts this site, thereby opening him up to any number of inconveniently timed messages from me about technical stuff — there is a tour in the works for Samavayo. I don’t know if Stoned Jesus will be involved there, as the war bleeds on, but Pāyān deserves to be played out, and having moved from one apocalyptic disaster to the next over the last several years, any show that can actually happen is only helping to make the world a better place.
So, here we have a new video for Samavayo‘s take on the ’70s Iranian disco cut “Talagh” by Googoosh, in an effort to keep Pāyān in people’s minds even as the group pivots toward the requisite plan B. And extra special kudos to them for doing something that would ever cause me to speak the words “’70s Iranian disco cut” as I just did out loud while typing the words.
Enjoy the clip:
Samavayo, “Talagh” official video
Talagh is the 3rd Single of Samavayo’s latest album PĀYĀN. Talagh was originally composed by the famous iranian singer and Disco Queen Googoosh in the 1970s.
Why we choose to remix Googoosh Talagh?
To make a remix of Googoosh Talagh felt kind of natural for us. The melodies of Googooshs song are both, oriental and western style influenced, like our music from Samavayo is too. Talagh is originally composed for the disco dancefloor. We added our spicy heavy Stonerrock sound to it, changed the arrangement and Stephan created a whole new rhythm for our version of Talagh. So we think we created a Talagh Remix with a heavy but still dance-attitude. You can dance but also mosh. Another aspect for choosing Talagh to remix was the fact, that Behrang’s Mom used to sing the song for him, when he was a kid. So there is also the sentimental aspect.
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