MOHAMMAD HEYDARIAN - Songs of Horaman LP punk David ‘Fathead’ Newman and Melvin

David ‘Fathead’ Newman and Melvin Sparks

On Elk Jam

a true post punk masterpiece

and Michael Brook (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)

They've always tended to shy away from the mundane

MOHAMMAD HEYDARIAN - Songs of Horaman LP punk David ‘Fathead’ Newman and MelvinMohammad Mostafa Heydarian is a young Kurdish tanbur player from Kermanshah, a city in the mountainous western Iranian region of Horaman. The son of a local instrument builder, he grew up surrounded by the local traditional music styles, studying with a number of well known master musicians before recently entering university to study Persian classical music. Recorded in the city of Karaj with the percussive assistance of long time collaborator Behzad