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\n Music\u2019s Visiting Scholar Recognized for Transformative International Album\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

By Nick Ward<\/em><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n

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Hooshyar Khayam, Music\u2019s 2021 Visiting Scholar<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Music’s newly appointed Visiting Scholar\u00a0Hooshyar Khayam’s\u00a0latest album\u00a0Raaz (30M Records, 2020)<\/em><\/a>, has been selected by the United Kingdom-based world music journal\u00a0Songlines<\/em> as their five-star album of the year from the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khayam is an Iranian-British musician, composer, pianist, and teacher who produces music in contemporary classical, fusion, and world music styles, and composes scores for film and theatre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raaz, <\/em>which translates from Farsi to “secret,”is a collaboration between Khayam and fellow award-winning musician Bamdad Afshar. It is the very first release from the innovative German-based 30M label, which strives to make Iranian music available to the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hooshyar Khayam\/Bamdad Afshar \u2013 RAAZ<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The album is representative of Khayam’s field recordings from Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province on the Pakistani border. It incorporates Gwati, a form of Iranian healing music, and blends this form with elements of electronic music and the implementation of traditional male and female vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, western jazz and music of the Middle East have been inspiring one another and creating new ways of thinking. Khayam’s work is a perfect exemplar of this phenomenon.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have constantly worked halfway between my admiration of the music of the West and passion for the East,” explains Khayam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently appointed as Music’s Visiting Scholar, Khayam has been a prolific composer and producer since finishing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition at the University of Cincinnati in 2005. Upon graduation, he returned to Iran to begin a series of travel experiences working and studying his home country’s music and its neighbouring nations’ music and culture, including Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Armenia and Georgia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I also worked on some music from the regions within Iran,” says Khayam. “Some of these influences impacted my work almost subconsciously and thus naturally worked their way into my compositions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics around the globe have described Khayam’s music as avant-garde, experimental, hopeful, and magical. Have a listen to his pre-Raaz<\/em> work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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