Entering this world I named Farshad Fozouni at 1981. I enjoyed playing among notes and sounds at my childhood. At that time I composed the songs that are neither useful nor I remember them. I recalled
That it was strange to me at that time that the others played popular songs; and it is not honor and pride in my opinion.
Anyway, after a journey to Germany and Netherland at the age 10 a feeling of accompaniment with Tombak “a Persian instrument” happened to me. And while returning Iran my dad purchased a “Tombak” for me; and I attended some professional class; (it was the only instrument I approached academically). After a short while being acquainted with “Yanni” New age style;”Pink Floyd” rock style;”Peter Gabrriel” (sound track of “the last temptation of Christ”); world music style;”Siavash Qomeishi” pop style; and after that “Vangelis “and “Kitaro” ,I felt an eagerness toward electronic music, when I was 16 my parents prepared a “cassio c.t.700”,a keyboard that has accompanied me up to now. I have done all these to make a world of the notes and sounds for myself to roam about. And I was impressed by all these music styles. And all of them have something in common that satisfied me. Of course Persian Gnostic music must be added to this list (such as songs by Shahram Nazeri and some of the old Kordish folk and Gnostic music played by Tambur). I loved the open and infinite space of music lacking any visual things in it. For this reason it was very close to feeling. It was as if it was tickling my soul, whether I got the meaning of the words or not, whether it had text or not. After the age 18 a friend of mine Mohammad lent his sister’s guitar to me. I also got interested to guitar, and knew that if I took it in my hand for some time I could make it sound. At that time I composed 8 tracks for the play that my brother was the director and writer; it must be mentioned that their lyrics was my brother’s; the lyrics with no specific and classic rime and rhyme. And in Iran roughly no one composed such a thing then at all. That play was never performed. But Mostafa- one of the actors of the play -who got interested to that music proposed me to work on Silverstein’s lyrics with his investment. With my acceptance I began to work. I composed songs for most of Silverstein’s texts. I selected the Persian translations of the text. And I treat them as complete songs. And among them I selected some of the songs anyway. I prepared one of the songs as an announcement in a home video festival.
That never performed, but I send the same work, that was arranged by me and Milad Zendenam to an underground music concert (Tehran avenue.com).
At that point a Persian composer –Ramin Behna- offered to cooperate with me as an art producer, and we produced 10 tracks with me as the composer and the singer and him as making arrangements. We released the song with name “Me and my giant friend” at these years I also worked on theater music. The 1st one was farhad’s work; then mostafa’s work “the little prince” then “leily and majnoon” by Shahroo Kheradmand; then “coffee shop ,internal, night” and “don Quixote” both of them by Asqar Dashti; and the latter was performed in Spain at 2005;then “2meter×2meter war “performed in Germany ,and the last work ”pinokio” which I done all sounds and music by my glottis ,lips ,and tongue, and I repeated them by a vocal effect processor; and I made a riff that sometimes another melody was made by me on this riff. At all these plays, expect the first one the music was alive and nearly improvised. I am interested in improvising; and with the liveliness of the music at the very moment. By regarding the addressee and his being the music varies sometimes the addressee is just me and sometimes my door and walls of my room and sometimes you…
About video clip
We made this video clip in 2005. Most of the work was done by my brother Farhad, and I done the rest. For instance I recorded the pictures of the flowers and also helped him in editing of the video. It was a low cost project (we done all of it with nearly 15 $) which lasted about one year.
