Farya Faraji

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: a piece on Kāveh the Blacksmith whose story perfectly echoes the current situation.

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

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

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

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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 🍁🍁🍁

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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.

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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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ravioli ravioli making awesome content with the dimitrios dallasoli

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reminder that many of the videos that I deleted on this channel have been moved to the secondary channel
FaryaFarajisBoilingHub, these are the one from the early days of the channel, most of which I will be reworking

www.youtube.com/channel/UCkaa...

be sure to subscribe to it for deleted and extra content

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✨HELP SUPPORT THE SOUNDS OF BYZANTIUM DOCUMENTARY✨

I have been approached by the Sounds of Byzantium documentary to be their narrator and presentator, as well as composer for the film's original score, and will soon begin shooting.

The film, created in collaboration with some of the greatest psalts of Orthodox Chant, will be filmed in Romania, Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon, uncovering stories, traditions, and voices that carry the essence of Psaltic Chant.

If you're subscribed to this channel, then it's likely you're as passionate as I am about the art of Byzantine Chant. So if you are interested in supporting the project financially, you can do so at:

armonialumina.com/doneaza-2/

By contributing, you will help share Byzantine Chant to a global audience. The primary goal of this channel is to bring to the forefront world traditions that deserve more attention, and Byzantine Chant, a member of the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is one such tradition.

Every contribution, no matter the size, will be enormously helpful to the production.

You can watch the trailer for the project here:
https://youtu.be/HcuJ3mXfTg4?si=uTsHK...

Let's bring more attention to world traditions together,
Cheers!

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