Sunday, February 7, 2010

Googoosh's Geryeh Konam Yaa Nakonam

In this song, Googoosh is the epitome of the Middle Eastern elements of elaborate melodies and melismas. She uses her voice to show improvisation around the series of core pitches she sings throughout her song. With the mixture of her voice and the acoustic guitar give off the unique characteristic texture of heterophony, where the guitar has its own melody while Googoosh's voice has a different distinct variation of the melody. The percussion rhythms are very elaborate with many variations of its own.
This particular song almost sounds like it has Latin influences from the music and percussion, but also shows its Iranian roots with the lyrics that Googoosh sings. As far as what Googoosh is singing about, I'm not exactly sure. My guess from the video would be about some sort of love story.


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