Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions. Zan means Women in Farsi and the album is all about the women from her culture, having come from a family of Mizrah i(Jewish-Iranian) descent, who moved to Tel Aviv in the 1970s. “My grandmothers were engaged when they were 11 and 12 and married at 15. They both had many children, but they had so much passion for life. I grew up with so many crazy stories about these women. My mother broke down the walls around women. So did my aunt. I watched them since I was a child. They fought for their freedom, and I’m fighting for mine, telling the stories about them in my songs.”
The album was made in collaboration online with Iranian musicians in a process where everything had to be secretive to avoid the gaze of Tehran’s mullahs and secret police. To explore and enjoy more of the album, visit the embedded Bandcamp link below. Out on Glitterbeat Recordings.
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