Among the most elusive recordings in the realm of non-English language 78 rpm discs for Westerners are those of Iranian and/or Persian origin. But there are two websites with particularly amazing information and sounds. Pooyan Nassehpoor’s Iranian Library of Recorded Sounds includes a trove of nearly a dozen jewel-like performances of Persian music of the the first half of the twentieth century.
And Amir Mansour’s breathtaking Persian Discography gives an authoritative history of the early history of the recording of Persian music as well as the history of recordings of regional ethnic minorities and key later recordings.
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Thanks for these links. I came upon a small collection of Persian and Kurdish classical music at a side walk sale last summer and though I knew very little about it, felt that I had come upon a real treasure trove
Hi, I accidently came across the blog and I want to thank Ian Nagoski to introdue my website and thank Ian Thal for his comment and ask him to send me an email about his Persian and Kurdish 78 rpm records.
My email: amirmansour78@yahoo.com
Amir Mansour
These were all CDs. The owner was moving to Amsterdam and was converting his music to .mp3. The collection (about ten CDs worth, I don’t keep good count) is mostly Shahram Nazeri and Mohammad-Rezâ Lotfi, whom I understand are prominent enough that they don’t really count as rare to the people who know this stuff better than I do!
Shahram Nazeri and Mohammad-Rezâ Lotfi are quite known and famous in Iran now but my interest is rare recordings in Iran cultural area.