How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Underground music in Iran

You can hear amazing things on the BBC at 3 in the morning. A radio doc on Iran's underground music scene blew me away. These rockers play where music is illegal, even their instruments are illegal. They make electric guitars out of wire and TV parts! They use female vocalists! They write songs about pre-Islamic Iran, sometimes singing in dead languages. As the doc narrator concluded, no matter how much you try to control them, people will break free. These kids are inspirational. And their homemade music rocks.