REORIENT:

Ramesh may have been funkier, and Hayedeh more technically-accomplished, but it’s been Googoosh khanum upon whose head has rested the crown of popular Iranian music – and culture – for decades, even whilst in exile and obscurity in the years following the Revolution. Hers is the voice of a displaced generation, of turbulent, heady, happy times that burned away as fast as they came into being; a voice that has remained impassioned and undaunted through decades dark and dolorous, a glimmer of hope for the future, a reminder of hidden beauty and splendour. Cyrus is the father, and Googoosh the daughter, if there’s ever been one.

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