Heydarian, Mohammad Mostafa

***Centripetal Force (North America), Cardinal Fuzz (UK), and Radio Khiyaban (Europe) are excited to announce Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian's second album Noor-e Vojood. Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian was born on the first of January, 2002 in Kermanshah, a city in western Iran. Kermanshah is the home of the tanbur, a pear shaped lute whose origins can be traced in the region for more than 5000 years. The Yarsans, a millennium sect of Kurdish people, have long made this region of the country their home. Their mystic rituals (jâm) are performed with tanbur, and the sacred music they play is a heritage that is steeped in one thousand years of tradition. Mostafa's father, Morteza, was a percussion player whose main musical instrument was the dâf, a frame drum. At the age of twenty, Morteza started learning tanbur crafting, and it is in these overlapping worlds of tradition, family, faith, and culture that Mostafa is born. The origins of this new album from Mostafa date back to 2021, when Valentin Portron and Mostafa booked the famous Bell Studio in Tehran, Iran’s oldest recording studio and one of the most respected studios in all of Asia. It was here that Mostafa started developing new ideas and a new dream. His main goal was to be more precise and intentional with his playing. He wanted to tighten his compositions while still including some unexpected moves.