NIYAZ’s Fourth Light to Illuminate Royce Hall: NIYAZ, the ethno-electronic Iranian-American musical group featuring Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian, perform at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday, and it ...
Six Degrees Records is proud to announce the new album from Niyaz, entitled Nine Heavens. Nine Heavens will be released as a double CD (featuring one disc of electronic and one disc of acoustic ...
Montreal/Los Angeles-based Niyaz have recently released their third album, Sumud (pronounced soomood) and they are bringing it on tour to the United States this summer. The album has already debuted ...
Niyaz draws inspiration from the folk traditions of Iran. Their newest release, Sumud, translates to "steadfastness" in Arabic and fuels the idea for their new recording. They pay tribute to cultures ...
The L.A.-based husband-wife team talks about bringing the multimedia show, inspired by ancient Sufi poetry, to life. What: “The Fourth Light,” performed by Niyaz When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 ...
Although the work of 13th-century mystical poet Rumi has grown increasingly well-known over the last half-century, it’s also been subject to numerous “modernizations” that have been calamitously hokey ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Middle Eastern folk-electronica masters NIYAZ join WMI to perform on the ...
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Among the many subgenres devised during Britain's 1990s electronica boom was "ethno-techno," which melded synthbeats with Asian and Arab melodies. The style's originators came mostly from the techno ...
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