Niyaz




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Niyaz
Origin
Los Angeles, United States
Montreal, Canada
Iran
Genres
World music
Folk music
Electronica
Sufi
Years active 2005–present
Labels Six Degrees Records
Website www.niyazmusic.com
Members
Azam Ali
Loga Ramin Torkian
Habib Meftah Boushehri
Past members Carmen Rizzo

Niyaz (نياز) is an Iranian Canadian musical duo. The group was created in 2004[1] by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, of the Iranian crossover group Axiom Of Choice.[2] In 2013, Carmen Rizzo announced via Facebook that he was retiring from Niyaz.[1] "Niyaz" means "yearning" in Persian, Urdu[3] and Turkish.


Niyaz's music, described as "mystical music with a modern edge",[4] is primarily a blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica.[5] Niyaz adapts Persian, Indian and Mediterranean folk sounds, poetry and songs including the poetry of Sufi mystic Rumi, with Western electronic instrumentation and programming.[6]


Their self-titled debut album, released in 2005, combined 13th century Sufi and Urdu poetry with "swirling, hypnotic beats".[3] Their 2008 follow-up album, Nine Heavens, featured two discs; the second disc contained acoustic renditions of the tracks on the first disc.


Their third album, Sumud (صمود), released in spring 2012.[7] A companion piece to the album, an acoustic EP with six songs, was released 19 March 2013.




Contents






  • 1 Lyrical sources


  • 2 Discography


    • 2.1 Albums




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Lyrical sources


Though they have several songs with original lyrics, the bulk of their lyrics are derived from Persian and Urdu Sufi poetry by the likes of Rumi, Obeyd-e Zakani, Amir Khusrow and Khaju-ye Kermani, and folk songs from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other parts of the Middle East and central Asia.


The lyrics of their first two albums are almost exclusively in Persian and Urdu, with the exception of a Turkish song on Nine Heavens, but their third album, Sumud featured mostly Persian songs with two songs in Turkish and one each in Palestinian Arabic and the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish.



Discography



Albums




  • Niyaz (2005)


  • Nine Heavens (2008)


  • Sumud (2012)


  • Sumud Acoustic EP (2013)


  • The Fourth Light (2015)



References





  1. ^ ab "Carmen Rizzo retires from Niyaz". Retrieved 2013-06-18. After 3 wonderful albums and touring around the world many times with the band I co-founded in 2004 with Azam Ali & Loga Ramin Torkian, I have decided to retire from the Niyaz..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Niyaz: From Iran To India To Los Angeles".


  3. ^ ab "Niyaz: self-titled".


  4. ^ Curiel, Jonathan (2008-06-29). "NIYAZ – World music". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-02-20.


  5. ^ "Niyaz official site". niyazmusic.com. Retrieved 2009-02-20.


  6. ^ "Niyaz Bio".


  7. ^ "News".




External links


  • Official website














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