Souad Massi / Hayati

Oh My Lovely Souad Massi

Such a pretty song,.. actually all of this woman songs is perfect. she also have French songs. But today I gonna talk about Hayati. Actually I dont know why I choosed Hayati. I was little bit confused about what I should share as a next content. But suddenly I decided on Hayati.

My Life..

'Hayati' ( حياتي) means ' My life'. Maybe reason is this. Quite recently, I all the time thinking about my life. I mean my past. Why all this things happen to me ? really whats wrong with me ? I cant stop thinking about all this things what happen in last 4 month. Anyway, I have to forget somethings, and forgive someones. Therefore, I can smile again.

I know, I did not talk about Who is Massi, where is she from, what is special about her... İn another songs of Souad Massi, I will tell everything about her.

Finally here is Engilish lyric of song

My Life

How much of a book I have read
How much of tales I have been told
I asked who tried
They left nothing but empty lines

I didn't know the way to sun
And the flowers wilted in spring
I find prison in every home
The bird I've sent returned back to me

I am living in a dream
one time we believe and sometimes not
They told me everything will be dicovered by time
Who sell dreams let me know

The truth can't be seen from lies
except what is high on mountains
Sun sets in morning

They covered the sun for me by the riddle

Rainfalls doesn't extinguish,
The burning fire inside of me
My tears are not enough
No one knows of me but God

Pallett - Mr. Violet - Baz Baran

We share same feelings but in different words

After a long time, I'm back and I finally wrote something. I know for such a long time I did not write anything. But I had reasons for this situation. Depression, working, and again depression... But I got over all tough times. I hope I will have more good time than my past. But my biggest problem was that I could not decide what I supposed to share. I had to share something, I mean song, that it should be more special than I shared ones until this time. Something really different, something, really from me. And suddenly I heard this song ( thanks to my younger sis) and I said ' yeah this is exactly what I want to share.

Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Persian..

First part of the song is kurdish ( and also kurdish is my second mother language :) second part of song is persian. You can heard this song in armenian, Azerbaijani and (you can't believe but ) even in Greece. Actually this is what I really try to do with my blog. You know we lived lots of historical things in this area ( Turkey, Armenia Azerbaijan,Persian Iraq..) I called old Mesopotamia. We are still same people, we are share same history, same feelings same pains and same songs... We are not different. And I think we have to keep trying to remember our comman culture and music is the best way to remember of this.

For today thats all from me,

Please write me back whatever you want

I love you all :) 

Mohsen Namjoo / Ey Sareban

Mohsen Namjoo.. Ey Sareban... Such a tough thing what talking about this lovely song. I have lots of thing to say, on the other hand I am in full of silence. I mean that words is meaningless in the face of this song. But I have to try saying something about it. I think, I should talk about Mohsen Namjoo firstly..

'Some call him a sort of Bob Dylan of Iran'

Bob Dylan of İran ? Yeah, but these are not my words (Also, as I have just read he dont like this comparison) The New York Time compare Mohsen with Bob Dylan. And I think, their life stories look like each other in some ways. But today I gonna talk about Namjoo, Not Dylan ( Sorry Bob but You know that I love you too:) )
Mohsen Namjoo is an Persian musician, singer-songwriter. His style of music is influenced by Blues and Rock as well as Iranian folk music.The lyrics of his songs are also odd combination of Persian classical poems, his own lyrics, and contemporary poems. His life story is so interesting as much as his music style. He was born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, a small town in northeastern Iran. He was starting interested in with Iranian poem and music when he was a child. But he has a traditional conservative family, firs time of his music career , his family did not support that about going to Tehran University Faculty Of Fine Arts. But he gone and get studied music.
But his university life did not take to long time.The third year of his university life, he was fired from university because of his unusual music style. But this was not the end of his story ,contrarily this is kinda begining of his story. After all this thing he create his own music. There is one more thing about his life, particularly I want to share with you.

  Love you Namjoo, Keep fighting !

In 2006 the Iranian judicial system sentenced Namjoo in absentia to a five-year jail term for allegedly ridiculing the ash-Shams, surah of the Quran, in his song "Shams" Mohsen apologized as formal way but İranian government did not accept his apology. I dont know exactly how but the conviction of Mohsen Namjoo did not took place. There is a something we have to focus on. A person who create a new music style in own way. And he used a Quran's Surah his own music. Think about that ' Why a person use something what he did not care in his own work?" I tried to find Shams English or Turkish Lyric but I could not. So I'm not sure What he say about these Surah. But, in a good way or bad way he must study on this Surah to use and also lots of person whole over the world hear this Surah thanks to Mohsen. Recently we are who called ownself muslim believer even did not open the Quran cover, he study on these Surah and reach lots of persons. Summarize, I love you Namjoo, Keep fighting !

Ey Sareban

There are more things that talking about Mohsen but I think I have to pass the song; Ey sareban. Actually it is a poem what written by Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi and Kouros Sarhang Zadeh used this poem in song form at movie of Leyli and Majnoon before Mohsen Namjoo. Believe me Mohsen Namjoo version is best one ever. Finally here is Ey sareban lyric in English

Oh you cameller

Oh you cameller, oh you caravan! Where are you taking my Leili( My lover)? 
As you take my Leili with you, you take my heart and my soul along, 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 

As we avowed our love, no one witnessed but our Lord, 
As long as this world is revolving, may our love live, 
Oh you cameller, oh you caravan! Where are you taking my Leili( My lover)? 
As you take my Leili with you, you take my heart and my soul along, 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 

All the religion I prtacticed, in this mortal world, turned into a sprickel of love, annd that became my living, 
How good it is to shed a tear in the memory of a lover, how good it is to live, as you are burning with love, 
O,G-d, I pray to you so thay always love stays in the hearts, as ours do
Because the story of Leili and Majnoon[ the Easten legendary lovers] become a fiction, but ours becomes immortal, 

Why you are running away from my love now? Why you are not reading the signs of dispair through my eyes? 
The way I feel sad you have no clue, 
I will not survive after you I swear to G-d, (so) stay and confi8rm the death of my heart and then leave, 
As a mighty storm, pick the flower of my being from the branches of sorrow and leave, 
Because I am that one tree that stays in the way of strom, 
The same tree whose branches are all broken by the anger of nature, 

Oh you cameller, oh you caravan! Where are you taking my Leili( My lover)? 
As you take my Leili with you, you take my heart and my soul along, 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 
Oh you cameleer, where are you heading to? Why are you taking my Leili along with you? 

Click for forbidden song Shams

Azam Ali / Nami Nami

Little bit sleep, don't hurt anyone

I could not write anything for such a long time! İt was a kind of break for me. Because of my exam week ( and I'm still in) I could not do anything. Just study, study and more study. But I'm REALLY boring. Somehow, my right now mood not depend on my exams. I dont know why but I feel exhausting in emotional way. Summary, I want a real break. So, as a first step, I can sleep and sleep again, believe me, I really need it.

I guess, because of my recently mood I am listening this song over and over again. Nami Nami is an Arabic lullaby. İt means ' Sleep Sleep'. Thanks to Azam Ali, I learned the lullaby. But believe me Azam Ali cover is better in all version. Niyaz ( Azam Ali soloist) and Azam Ali's other group members are Persian. Clearly Azam's Arabic pronunciation is not very well but still better version ever.

Swing (2002)

Generally I learn new songs from movies but this time I learn a new movie thanks to Nami Nami song. 'Swing' is a French film by Tony Gatlif, released in 2002. Unfortunately I have no any special information or impression about the movie because I don't watch Swing yet. But I will. I have just watched one part of movie what Nami Nami has sung by Hayat Ayad and I am really impressed.

Here is Synopsis of Swing

Max, an only child, is about ten years old. He becomes an avid fan of gypsy jazz the day he hears the virtuoso guitar player Miraldo strumming the chords. This music becomes his passion and leads him to the gypsy section of town where he buys an old guitar. While taking guitar lessons with Miraldo, Max discovers a whole new world, including Swing, a gypsy girl his age. They become fast friends. Swing's unusual self-assurance and animal magnetism enthrall Max. But Swing has a big surprise in store for her friend, one that turns Max's world upside down and throws him headlong into his first crush.

Click for Lyric in Engilih and Turkish

Click for Swing Vesion of song

Mah Ensemble / Az Kafam Raha

Last song of this year...

I dont know why but I listened this song today over and over . Yes, today we close 2015 and tomorrow is a new year. New year is like a empty page. Yes I hope, next year will be the one of best year for all of us. But ending is ending. So maybe we should think about something about our life and change before the new year. At least we should try. Anyway this thing what I said until the this moment not about the my today song ' Az Kafam Raha'

This is one of Persian song. this language is not just a language, I think. Anything what you saying in Persian can be part of a poem. Just Amazing! if we talk about specially 'Az Kafam Raha' is Traditional Persian song what written by Persian poet Aref Ghazvini.

Mah Ensemble

This song has been sung by lots of singer but I think Mah Ensemble version is the best one. Mah mean is Moon. I could not find so much specific information about the ensemble. Mah Ensemble is the one of famous group of Persian. They try to tell own culture to world by Traditional Persian Music. They have been performed lots of part of world.

Here is group performers names

Majid Derakhshani director
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani vocalist
Shahoo Andalibi ney (reed-flute)
Kooshan Yaghmaee tombak (goblet drum)
Mehrdad Nasehi kamancheh (spiked fiddle)
Jamsheed Safarzadeh santour (hammered dulcimer)
Shiva Ahmadisepehr lute
Zahra Ranjpour daf (frame drum)

Of course here is song lyric 

ez kef'em rehâ 
şôd gâhrare dêl
nist dest'ê men
êhtiyâre dêl
dêl be hâr kucâ,
ref'o ber negeşt
dîde şôd sefîd,
zê intizârê dêl

ârefin gâder
lâf'tâ be key?
şi'ir âcez est
ez şêkâre dêl
hûnê dêl beriht
ez du çeşm'i men
hoşdêlem ez in
intihâre dêl

ey ke mîrevî
ez kênârê men
gâfeli tû ez hâl'ê zâr'ê men
mîberi ze dêl
yâdêgârê men
ta siyâh kôni
rûzêgârê men

Repeat part

men perîşan,
belâyê cân'ê hiyşem
bûved âşkê tu kişem
bê canbâzi ço ez parvâne pişem
bedê derdo belâ zendâzê bişem
gûl'û'zârem
kerâfî ez kenârem
tûyi boğo behârem
be gûlzârê muhabbet gerçê hârem
behâri canfezâ der sîne dârem

Here is Song's Engilish Lyric what Translate by me . İt means please forgive my poor Engilish :)) 

The heart wants what the heart wants

I lost my heart's control

My heart decision is not depend on me

My heart has gone and did not turn back wherever it has gone

My eyes became blind due to waiting for my heart

I am miserable

My life's biggest problem is myself

Your love is my relagion, my ritual

Grief ,trouble, pain whatever give me

About sacrificing ownself, I am better than Ferhat ( İt about one eastern tale character)

My lover who has gone from beside of me

You are my spring, you are my garden

İf I am a thorn in my lover’s rose garden, there is a great spring in my inside

Ey! Arif ( there is poet talking with ownself)

How long with this meaningless words ?

Even a lion is powerless about heart hunting

My heart's blood run off from my eyes

But I'm glad with my heart's suicide

You who passing from my side

You are unwary of my miserable situation

You taking my memories from my heart

As a final world, please click for song's Turkish lyric

Lena Chamamyan / Sareri Hovin Mernem

'What should ı say as a introductory sentence ?' Less or more 10 minute, I'm thinking about this. But I did not find remarkable sentence for first one. An Armenian song. Actually not just Armenian song ' An amazing, marvelous, magnificent, etc Armenian song.' İs that enough to describe this song quality ? I'm not sure. on the other hand, understanding this song's emation what it wants to get felt you depend on your mood and emotional background. İf you are in a blue mood and also you have a broken heart yeah, this is fit for you to passing depression time.

Lena Chamamyan. She is a Armenian singer who was born in Syria. She has an amazing voice. she was graduated from department of Business Administration. And then she studied on Classical Eastern Music at Aleppo University. Firstly Business Administration and then Music. This impressed me. Clearly, I understand that, if music in your destiny, soon or late you reach it.

As a final word here is Sareri Hovin Mernem Lyric. for today I'll also share Turkish Lyric because English one is not enough to understand the story of song.

I'll Die for the Wind of the Mountains

I'll die for the wind of the mountains 
I'll die for the wind, I'll die for the wind
I'll die for the height of my beloved
I'll die for the height, I'll die for the height

I stopped, I can't come
I can't come, I can't come
I'm filled, I can't cry
I can't cry, I can't cry

I haven't seen in a year,
Those who've seen, oh beloved, I'll die for their eyes
The rivers don't bring water
They don't bring any news from you

Your heart must be frozen
Your love, oh beloved, they don't bring it in vain
I stopped, I can't come
I can't come, I can't come

I'm filled, I can't cry
I can't cry, I can't cry
I haven't seen in a year,
Those who've seen, oh beloved, I'll die for their eyes

Dağların rüzgarına öleyim

Dağların rüzgarına öleyim
Yarimin boyuna öleyim
Bir yıldır ki görmemişim
Görenin gözüne öleyim
Durmuşum gelemiyorum
Dolmuşum ağlayamıyorum
Bir yıldır ki görmemişim
Görenin gözüne öleyim

Ahraz / Senden Mene Yar Olmaz

End of the story

An Azerbaijan song. I said 'End of the story' as title of this content. sometimes we have to make a desicion between our heart or rationality. I think this song about it. Girl who sing the song know that man who she loved is not right guy. Man gonna hurt her again. But she still want to him in her life. in spite of man's whole mistake she want to make up with the guy. She still in hope and wait. İs that end of story ? or story have just begun. This totaly about girls desicion and also man.

I have a few Azerian friend. Thanks to them I learn lots of beautiful Azerian song. I think Azerian guys is good with the make a music. Two years ago, one of person in my life was said me ' Azerian guys really good in the music and specially piano area. One day, İf you, wants take piano courses, you should take this course from an Azerian guy.' Sumary, I like azerbaijan songs, he was right.
I have no special information about singer, but in below, I'll give a link for another version of ' Senden bana yar olmaz'

Nim Soyan Version