Mohsen Namjoo - untitled song in the Iranian Nava music scale

Renowned Iranian poet, musician, and music scholar, Mohsen Namjoo was an International visitor at the Stanford Humanities Center in the Fall of 2009.

Namjoo performed a few of his songs, which incorporate elements of persian classical poetry (Rumi) and western musical influences including the Blues, for the Humanities Center fellows.

For details: http://shc.stanford.edu/people/directory/mohsen-namjoo

Video produced by the Human Experience at Stanford University - a project to raise awareness of the value of humanities scholarship. Click here for more information: http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/

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[TheChie99]

The Arial, you are right, poor @shahinarya is insane beyond recognition. All music is an amalgam. The Shah uses crude language and put downs to win an argument, thereby showing his ignorance, abhorrence to others points of view and inane concept of reality. His mass of brain, probably reflects his mass of other qualities, such as low self-esteem, insecurity and paranoia. Pity. These comments should focus positively on the music. I like it!

[solsav]

@shahinarya why are you trying to pretend you know anything about those words and reflect your hatred from anything contrary to your traditional conception of music and your convention -which you assign to all iranians, on several similar videos over and over again? dude what's wrong with you? if anyone, by any chance, gave a shit about what you said, they would let you know even if you did post it once! get a life! what you do is analogous to farting over and over again until someone reacts.

[KGDEMONS09]

His next step mix his music with modern economics, politics, culture, and social life style....

[TheAriai]

THE Legend!

[behradng]

come on guys, you think John Cage's experiments in music was fully accepted within the american society? I'm not comparing Namjoo to Cage but trying different things and experimenting with music is good, that is the whole point of creativity and innovation, for example if Europeans did not alter the design of a Renaissance Lute it wouldn't lead to the creation of the guitar!

[mehri62]

Come on guys, don't we have enough of old, this is art don't try to analyze and compare it to what you know.

Innovative people like Namjoo may bring Persian music some where that you can listen to and not get bored.

[TheMcbeth70]

@shahinarya I believe that Namjoo does many wrong things to have some more fame like: singing strange songs with strange lyrics or showing a strange crazy personality from himself or making people think he really knows sth from politics....

but I don't believe that he doesn't know anything from music or he is not tallented enough. I think any of the people who critisize Namjoo should at least accept that he is tallented and has a strong voice and also a strong musical feeling.

[pashahamasian]

@shahinarya and what do u consider as Iranian art?

[Pecteh]

@shahinarya , dude, u r so serious, what d u do for fun??,

[shahinarya]

Very well said! Finally someone else who understands what I have been saying about this stupid idiot who neither knows how to sing nor understands anything about music, any music! I cannot believe people are falling for this *^*&^... Sad, a very sad statement about what some Iranians consider "ART"