NIYAZ- Sabza Ba Naz (The Triumph of Love) Official Music Video

LOVE this band, NIYAZ. Makes me have to jump up bust a move! "NIYAZ has created a 21st century global trance tradition by seamlessly blending medieval Sufi poetry and folk songs from their native Iran and its surrounding countries in the Persian Gulf, with rich acoustic instrumentation and state-of-the-art modern electronics." Remember Whirling Dervishes? They are Sufi Muslims. The great poet Rumi was a dervish, see Rumi Quotes. Nayiz is heavily influenced, if not based on that music tradition so it has a trance-like undercurrent layered with percussive elements. They do the best folk music hammered dulcimer ever, Aaron Lisec. ;) Below: Song from a new favorite CD called "The Fourth Light". Last year, I had done research and a blog post about the first female Sufi mystic and poet Rabia Al Basr, 8th century Iraq. What an awesome coincidence! "In can be said that The Fourth Light is in many ways a feminist album. The central figure who served as the main source of inspiration for the music is the first female Sufi mystic and poet Rabia Al Basri, who was born in the 8th century in Iraq. She was a woman born into extreme poverty during a time when women’s rights were severely constrained. Sold into slavery at a young age, Rabia defied the odds and managed to find the inner strength and resolve that would eventually lead to her liberation both as a woman as well as a spiritual figure. “Rabia’s struggles even in the 8th century,” Azam adds, “remain quite relevant to our time when women continue to strive to rise above the status of inferiority placed upon them by many patriarchal societies around the world.”
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NIYAZ- Sabza Ba Naz (The Triumph of Love) Official Music Video
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From the album "The Fourth Light" NIYAZ offers a new rendition of traditional Afghan folk song with additional poetry and original music composed by Azam Ali...