Farya Faraji

My interview with the channel Classical Odyssey, where we talk about ethnomusicology in contrast to individual authorial art, the philosphy of traditional music as art and anthropology, and more, check it out if you're interested!

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My friend Ali Farbodnia and his colleagues have released a rendition of the folk song Mamdosein, a ballad from Khorasan, about Mamdosein, a young man who upon his wedding night, is called to fight the invading enemy, and is there killed. If you like the Epic Iranian series, this is the same sound and music as that.

For Freedom.

3 days ago | [YT] | 191

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Just discovered this gem of a channel called My Life With Early Music, hosted by Ersnt Stolz, a professional musician and Dutch music teacher. He has loads of quality, historically informed renditions of historical music, especially from the European early modern repertoire, so be sure to check him out:

5 days ago | [YT] | 251

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About Iran’s current protests:

Many are asking when I will release a song to show support for my compatriots in Iran. I am working on one.

Unlike other channels, I do not use AI or digital software. I put the revenue of this channel into paying real musicians. I make sure to work with Iranians living in Iran; this way, I can financially support them in the current collapsing economy.

However, since yesterday, the Islamic Republic has cut off the Internet in an attempt to defuse the mass uprising. An entire nation of 92 million people is now cut off from outside communication. How my colleagues, my family, and my loved ones are, I do not currently know. Many have died being shot down by the authorities. Countless are arrested and tortured as I write this.

More to the point: I cannot receive my colleagues' instrumental and vocal recordings, as they have no Internet to send them to me. This is what is slowing down the progress of the song, and as a sign of respect, I will not replace them, even if it means delaying the release of the song.

PS: For the pieces of trash who actively wish for the regime to stay in power "because it opposes Western imperialism..." Do unsubscribe, and help the channel filter out the filth. Because you are directly supporting a regime that violates human rights, one that has engaged in the torture, repression, and killing of its own people for four decades.

1. When a people are fighting for basic human rights in the face of one of the most regressive, brutal regimes in modern history, anyone who says "but have you considered how Israel/the US would benefit?!" is effectively saying...

that there is a conditional asterisk on some human rights.

That human rights and dignity are negotiable if they happen to be geopolitically inconvenient. This is not just a bad take. This is direct, open dehumanisation.

I am also opposed to Western imperialism and Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian people, but not to the point of turning a blind eye to another state's human rights abuses. The people who operate with the logic of: "I am against Israel's war crimes, and the Islamic Republic opposes those war crimes, therefore I'll give the Islamic Republic a pass on their totalitarian repression, state-rape, torture and executions..." such people have failed to achieve basic morality. Shockingly, it is possible to oppose Western imperialism, AND oppose the humanitarian crimes of an anti-Western dictatorship. That's what morally healthy people do.

2. Neither will I tolerate those who claim "Mossad/Trump is behind these protests!" Consider the moral abhorrence of this claim: "if Iranians are fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights, it can't be of their own free will. Surely American psyops pushed them to do this."

Consider the racist, dehumanising, orientalist, paternalising view of Iranians this statement is built on. That the Iranians are such a backwards, primitive, docile people, that women being tortured, state-raped, and beaten to death, for simply refusing the hijab, is not the reason we're rising up. That it's just foreign imperialists meddling with our soft, easily influencable brains. There's no question foreign meddling will be involved in any situation, but to attribute the cause of the uprising to "Mossad," is to erase half a century of lived oppression for the Iranians, and demands that we are docile beasts who without them, had no problem with our human rights being abused.

There is no "yes but," or "it's complicated," when human rights are abused. Palestinian human rights are not negotiable, and neither are Iranians'.

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Cool Christmas Carol from last year, check it out and Merry Christmas y'all

1 month ago | [YT] | 542

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A song I made two years ago for the Iranian winter solstice celebration of Shab e Yalda, check it out

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 528

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ravioli ravioli what's in the palatul parlamentului 🇷🇴🇷🇴

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2 months ago | [YT] | 5,201

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Now that the Christmas season is incoming, if you haven't seen this one, make sure to watch. It's one of the videos/arrangements I'm proudest of on this channel, from my own country 🍁🍁🍁

2 months ago | [YT] | 477

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Winter has now come to Canada, so I thought I'd share this beautiful secular Medieval English song from the 1200's; a lament on the death of summer and the coming winter.

3 months ago | [YT] | 330

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When level 1 tzouras player Farya Faraji meets level 100 Laouto final boss ‪@Dimitrios_Dallas‬

Song is Στο παραθύρι πρόβαλε, my favourite Nisiotika song

youtube.com/shorts/XuehEntzVs...

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