The Gathering

absolutely in agreement
anneke is 1000000000000000000 times so much better than the other girl

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cosmic_mouth
your signature's pictures is gonna kill me
can give me source of them plz?

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

i forget the source

sorry

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I can´t really name a favourite genre. All I can say is that nowadays most of the music I listen to (I guess about 95 % or maybe even more) is female-fronted.

Well, if you need genres:

Scandinavian folk (rock) music (e.g. Gåte/Garmarna/Två Fisk Och En Fläsk/Suden Aika/Burlakat/Mari Boine/Hedningarna)
Persian female vocalists (Parissa/Sima Bina/Mahsa Vahdat/Sussan Deyhim)
world music (Dead Can Dance/Egschiglen/The Bulgarian Voices "Angelite")
unique artists/bands of different musical genres (Atrox/Madder Mortem/Voivod/Fear of God/Kate Bush/Kari Bremnes/The Third And The Mortal/Sainkho Namtchylak/Tactile Gemma/The Gathering)

Every now and then, I still listen to some
thrash metal (Coroner/Mekong Delta/early Anacrusis/Détente/early Metallica)
progressive/technical metal (Fates Warning/Psychotic Waltz/Sieges Even/Watchtower)
doom metal (Candlemass/Saint Vitus),
which was my favourite music way back in the eighties/early nineties.

np: Parissa & Ensemble Dastan - "Forud"

You know Persian music Oh god

Are you iranian?

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

I already pm´ed you my answer, but I´ll also post it here:

No, I´m German. But in 1999 I watched a concert by Sima Bina and the female ensemble Hamnawa, which took place at the Weltmusikfestival in Bonn, on German TV and I enjoyed it very much. In 2001 I saw my first concert of Sima Bina and the Ensemble Dastan at the Philharmonie in Cologne. I then saw her again live in 2003 and last year, both times again in Cologne. Last year I also attended my first concert of Parissa and the Ensemble Dastan, again at the Philharmonie in Cologne, where they performed the songs of her new double-CD "Gol-e Behesht". It was an excellent concert and it will also be released on DVD! You can read my review (in English) here. (Someone with whom I got into contact in 2003 via e-mail had asked me, if I would write a report of this concert.)

Finally, I saw a very special concert in Oslo in 2003 featuring - among others - Mahsa and her sister Marjan Vahdat. You can read a report (with photos) in English here. It was a really memorable experience!

Very interesting read...the links you provided. Do you by chance know of any links with sound samples of any of the Persian female artists you mentioned?

I know little of it, but have enjoyed the bit I've come to know thus far. Definitely would like to hear more Persian music, but I don't know where to start.....so any recommendations would be appreciated.

Here's some Web Site that you can find lots of persian singer there
http://www.danceage.com
http://www.iransong.com
http://www.taktaz.com
http://www.sarzamin.org
http://www.Takdownload.com
http://www.persianhubcom

Emule
Kazaa

looking for

Siavash ghomeyshi **
Habib*
Ebi
Esfahani**
Eftekhari**
Shajarian**
Hesamedin Seraj*
Shahram Nazeri*
Farhad*
Fereidon*
Fereidon Foroughi
Amir sadeghi*
Kamran and Hooman
Simin Ghanem
Googoosh*
Marjan*
Javad Yasari
Abbas Ghaderi*
Haideh*
Mahasty
Black Cats
Arian
Boys
D.J Arash

maked with * are better than others
And Others that you can find there

ooo Do you know Persian language?

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

currently:

The Gathering
My Dying Bride
Dead Can Dance
Pearl Jam
Anathema
Sigur Ros
(Post-Indie) rock (Mogwai, A Silver Mt Elegies, Explosions in the Sky, Mono, The Evpatoria Report, Tortoise, Shora, Pelican, Migala, Do Make Say Think, Magyar Posse, GY!BE...)
Chamber music (A Silver Mt Zion, Chamber...)
(Neo-)classical
Soundtracks
Old stuffs (Rush, Maiden ....)

http://images1.pictiger.com/images/03/1bd275ad2244a7aee12aaa32c8c9c103.gif

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Thanks for your attention guy
but not the gif.
I mean that the source of pictures in it
to have that gif i can simply right click on it and save it
Anyway thanks a lot

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

Yes, I do. You can download some mp3-files from the official websites of Parissa and Mahsa Vahdat. You can listen to some streaming files at the official website of Sussan Deyhim. And you can also listen to some files on the official website of Sima Bina, though it seems I can´t get them working.

In addition to this also try this videoclip featuring a song by Parissa and the Ensemble Dastan (the sound and picture-qualtiy may not be the best, but it´s enough to give you an idea) and this one showing an impressive percussion-solo (more than three minutes), also from a concert by Parissa and the Ensemble Dastan. (In both cases just right-click and "save target as".) You also find these files (and lots of others - videoclips as well as mp3s - of different Persian artists) at http://www.iranmusic.de in the "Music"-section.

np: Parissa & Ensemble Dastan - "Daramad, Saz-o Avaz"

that source is what i forget
but this pics are very common
you can find them in google maybe
i'm going to search them now

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I've search a lot in google for TG and Anneke's pic and I've downloaded lots of them(not good resolution. the biggetst is 700*462)but These pics arent there
(there is so.me pic from gigs in high resolution)

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

look
In my msn space i have one of the pics that appears in my gif, but i can't open the site right now, i don't know why if you want, here is the direction, i have a lot of pictures

http://space.msn.com/mundoenfermoytriste

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me too
may be the server is down
error message "Firefox can't find the server at space.msn.com."
i think its down

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

damn
the server is down or i wrote another direction

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I dont know the direction is true or false
but i'm sure server is down
just type http://space.msn.com then you will see the error message

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Reality isnt the things that you see, hear and feel, You see, hear and feel the things that you want to see, hear and feel.
When You are look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also look into You.

is true
my space is mundoenfermoytriste

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Thank you to kernel & Burkhard for the Persian music recommendations. Definitely apperciated

Been pretty busy with work lately, so I haven't had the chance to check many of the links yet, but all the recommenations will surely keep me occupied for awhile.

Luckily I do have a great CD store in the area with a huge world music section, so I plan to preview the artists you listed and buy some of the ones I like best.

@ kernel....to answer your question, no I don't know Persian language. Until recently, I did work with a very nice Persian girl (and her brother for a little while also) She showed me some Farsi. Some writing, the alphabet etc....but I don't know how to speak any. I would've liked to have learned some phrases at least.