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Arayesh-E Khorshid
Studio album by Kourosh Yaghmaei
Released	2000 (2000)
Recorded	1980
Genre	Folk funk psychedelic rock
Label	Ahang Rooz
Kourosh Yaghmaei chronology
Kabous (1997) Arayesh-E Khorshid (2000) Tofang-E Daste Noghre (2001)

Arayesh-E Khorshid (Persian: آرایش خورشید; Make the Sun) is the tenth studio album by Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist Kourosh Yaghmaei. The album includes a collection of Iranian folk songs that was released in 2000 by Ahang Rooz in Iran. It also censored one track before it was released. It features a traditional Persian folk song "Mastom, Mastom" ("Drunk, Drunk") which verse refers to an unrequited or impossible love.

Background

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Yaghmaei spent over a month for recording three Sol-e series albums. Initially this album was recorded as Sol-e 3. Where, Sol-e 1 was reissued in 1979 on CD as Parandeye Mohajer by Los Angeles-based record label Caltex Records, and Sol-e 2 was recorded with Fereydoon Foroughi and released in 1980.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

• Kourosh Yaghmaei – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, choral, keyboard, orchestra arrangement
• Kamran Yaghmaei - rhythm guitar, drama, choral
• Kambiz Yaghmaei - keyboard, percussion, crawl
• Kaveh Yaghmaei – keyboard
• Satgin Yaghmaei – crawl
• Helen Musakhani – vocals

References

1. Breyley & Fatemi 2015, p. 135.

Cite

• Breyley, GJ; Fatemi, Sasan (2015). Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond (illustrated ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317336808.

External links

• Arayesh-E Khorshid at Discogs

• 2000 albums
• Kourosh Yaghmaei albums
• Persian-language albums