Earth Whisper is a journey through Iran. You will fly over the country, land in various parts of it, take a musical glimpse, and resume your flight. You hear, among other sounds in this journey, the everlasting voice of the late Moazenzadeh Ardebili, singing the call to prayer or adhan.

Earth Whispers - Part12

A lunatic falls in love with the moon. Not wanting to lose sight of it, he travels the world day and night. Aligholi realizes this tale by using traditional and folklore musical textures blended with mystic instruments of Iran such as tanbour, kamancheh and daf.

Gypsy Moon - Part02

Ehsan Sadigh: Electric Guitar, Piano
Parviz Norouzi: Saxophone
Rouzbeh Fadavi: Drums, Rhythm Design

07 Act 7

Egoystem is a book of musical lyricism composed in appreciation of those human inter-ego and intra-ego relations that lead to beauty. Peter's compositions in this album fall in the category of Jazz-Fusion.

GraceOfObscurity

The unique nature & culture of Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf with its strong influences from Persian, Arabic as well as East-African traditions is the main theme in the production of an album based on the musical textures, traditions, culture and nature of Qeshm.

Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Saeed Ansari,Christophe Rezai, Peter Soleimanipour, Reza Asgarzadeh, Ali Boustan, F arhad Asadian & Karan Homayounfar offer their own interpretation of the theme in Qeshm Island.


Artists:  Mohammadreza Aligholi, Saeed Ansari, Christophe Rezai, Farhad As'adian, Peter Soleimanipour, Reza Asgarzadeh, Ali Boustan, Karan Homayounfar



Daryadaad

Mirage is a poetic interpretation of the mysterious nature of the deserts in Iran. Traditional themes such as Zoroastrian hymns, religious prayers and customs, in combination with Pejman's musical impression of the  architectural, geography and lore of desert regions, have given way to  a mystical ambience where instruments like donali (pipe), kamancheh (spiked fiddle), delroba, gheichak or dohol play an important role. Some of the parts of this music are inspired by Pejman's composition for Majid Majidi's Oscar nominated movie Baran (2001).

Ecstasy

Journey is based on five pieces for setar evoking different modalities and ambiences of traditional Persian music. The Indian tabla, closely linked to the setar, takes us further east while classical and contemporary orchestral formations such as strings, electric jazz guitar, sound effects... pay tribute to European musical traditions of the present day. 

Journey

This album consists Hooshyar Khayam's cello concerto (world premiere) as well as other compositions of his for strings and piano. Featuring Duo Ars Lunga and Naregatsi Ensemble, all works are live performance recordings at Komitas Hall, Yerevan, conducted by the composer. Aram Talalyan (Cello), Lusine Aghababyan (Violin) and Julietta Vardanyan (Piano) appear as the soloists of the album.

Stained Glass

 All of you (duet for piano and ney) is in its core an improvisation. Most of the pieces have been performed and recorded only once with no edits or retakes and only some use the technique of multilayer recording to achieve the desired effect. Sonorities heard are all of acoustic nature performed by the musicians and generated on their instruments .

Dawn

The instrumental sonnets in this album are ghazals for solo piano resembling a long poem ("The Scent of Petunias and the Acacias That Flow Through Them") by distinguished Iranian contemporary poet Ahmadreza Ahmadi. Thousand Acacias is Hooshyar’s second solo album after Tatari ( HER037 ). 

Sonnet09

The essence of cinema helps the composer write music without formal and conventional boundaries. Maybe that's why most of the film music writers embark on different forms in their works, experiencing vaster freedom. Yazdanian uses this space, writing music depicting visions. A music, which you can listen & imagine, without looking at the silver screen.
   Themes is a collection of four original movie soundtracks including Wind will carry us (Abbas Kiarostami), Strangers (Ramin Bahrani), Going By (Iraj Karimi) and Water & Fire (Fereydoun Jeyrani). 

GoingBy02

After establishing herself as a principal cellist with various symphony orchestras in Germany and other European countries, Andrea found that her leanings toward Jazz, Ambient and Oriental music deserved equal time. Meantime, she also played with the Ray Brown Trio, James Morrison, Eartha Kitt and Natalie Cole as a cello player.

Some say the sound of cello comes from the heavens. In this album you can hear Andrea's cello inspired by the poetry of Rumi. 

Ambient1

In 1993 Alireza Mashayekhi and Farimah Ghavam Sadri co-founded Tehran's Group for Contemporary Music. Mashayekhi went on to established the Iranian Orchestra for New Music. In this album, the Orchestra performs seven compositions of Alireza Mashayekhi, conducted by himself. 

Chahrgah

Ceremonies is a combination of New Age and Contemporary Jazz based on Armenian traditional melodies. Armen, keyboardist of the Grammy Award winning Shadowfax, created a tapestry of vibrant sounds in which Jivan Gasparyan’s duduk, accompanied by other traditional and modern instruments, helped him add a new sound to the musical textures of his homeland.

DistantLands

Memories of Tomorrow is the story of a simple day in a complicated modern society. It is about coping with the stressful urban life, visiting memories of the past to calm the complicity of life, lost loves, betrayals, hate, and difficult challenges only to put them all aside to gain hope to start a new day.

Memories

Based on an ancient Sumerian tale, the order of the universe rested upon a dramatic confrontation between a creature who ruled the darkness, storms and the seas, and Marduk, the God of Babylon. Having defeated the evil dragon, he created the sky and the stars, trees, animals and finally mankind.
Genesis is a remarkable experiment, using the diverse sound-generating capabilities of Iran's traditional drum, the Tombak, to tell the story of Marduk.

Genesis

Although Rock music was born in post-industrial societies, the younger generation of Iranians have been searching for a kind of Rock that springs from the heart of their own society. By using folk melodies and traditional motifs, Barad tries to come up with a new blend of Rock.

Hermit

The musical concept of the Franco-Iranian Nour Ensemble is based on Persian, Kurdish and medieval vocal and instrumental music. Supervised by Christophe Rezai, Nour Ensemble performs Kurdish and Persian folk melodies, Spanish cantigas and Gregorian chants. The album was recorded at the ruins of the 1600-year old Ardeshir Babakan Castle near the city of Shiraz.

Villancico

Hermes Records celebrated Fete de la Musique in June 2003 by organizing a live concert in Tehran. The concert was first conceived in three parts. French and Iranian ensembles were to perform separately in the first two parts and join together in the third, but the chemistry between the musicians was such that Alain Brunet suggested that the two ensembles appear on the stage together under the name of Paris-Tehran Project.

Nowrouz

There is a harmony between the contrasts of ebony and ivory keys. Moments created by Kiawasch Saheb Nassagh’s improvisations on piano is the realization of such harmony, the passions and impressions of an artist far from his homeland.

Dialogue

Compositions in this album are intended as concert pieces, challenging the pianist with difficult but flowing techniques. Tatari’s seriousness of expression, its abstract structure, its “new” as well as “old” pianism has deep roots Persian music and deserve critical attention.

BaharStreet

There is no reason for Music. It simply exists.

   Hermes Records was founded in Winter 1999 aiming to produce and promote modern Persian music, discover creative musicians and help artists approach new horizons.While the music industry in Iran is devoting most of its attention to popular and traditional genres, artists from diverse backgrounds have been brought together to explore common understandings and new musical colorings under the slogan Music for Music.  The trust of talented Persian musicians as well as artists from abroad has helped us walk through this path and continue searching for new ideas. 

Our Vision
- Creating a joyful and inspirational environment to generate musical ideas.

Our Mission
- to attain and sustain international reputation for persian music and artists.
- to utilize advantages of persian music
- to establish a share for persian musical productions in the global market.
- to defend the legal rights of persian artists
- to make people enjoy music!

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