Makan Ashgvari – New album out!

With ” IN RAGE WE DANCE”, multi-instrumentalist, singer and Songwriter MAKAN ASHGVARI releases his first album after 6 years!

Makan about this album:

After my album “To Trucks”, which was a sound journey through Iran, I tried to draw from the sounds of a vast land of oppressed people. The Darbuka, the voices of Kurdish singers, rhythms inspired by Dabke, and the powerful voice and groove of Cheikha Rimitti. Although I couldn’t travel and record in the lands that had my heart (as I did with To Trucks), my laptop became a way to travel, to listen, and to join these sounds, both in my head and in my electronic music.

My dream with this album is that one night, at a small party in Tehran, someone dancing to my music closes their eyes and feels the arms of their siblings in Herat and Beirut, Gaza and Damascus, Sulaymaniyah and Cairo resting on their shoulders, in solidarity. May this music tell the people who dance to it, the things I can’t say by words.