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GHARBZDADEGI by Robert Wyatt - cover by "Music from a mailing list" (single)

by Luciano Margorani

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Gharbzadegi (Persian: غرب‌زدگی) is a pejorative Persian term translated among other ways as ‘Westernized’, ‘West-struck-ness’,‘Westoxification’.[The term implies both that Iran is "intoxicated" (zadegi) with the West (from Arabic غَرْب‎ ḡarb), but also a victim of the West's "toxins" or disease. The "intoxication or infatuation ... impairs rational judgment" so that Iran (and sometimes also the Muslim world) is prevented from perceiving the danger of the object of its infatuation -- the toxins of the West -- "moral laxity, social injustice, secularism, devaluation of religion, and obsession with money, all of which are fueled by capitalism" and result in "cultural alienation."The term is used to refer to the loss of Iranian cultural identity through the adoption and imitation of Western models and Western criteria in education, the arts, and culture; through the transformation of Iran into a passive market for Western goods and a pawn in Western geopolitics. (from Wikipedia)

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released March 12, 2024
From an idea by Luciano Margorani
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Luciano Margorani - bass and guitars

Stefano Zorzanello - flutes, electronics, radio

Jacopo Costa - vibraphone

Lello Colombo - tenor sax

Luca Zarbano - drums

Recorded in 2023 at various locations by the musicians.
Mix and mastering: Stefano Zorzanello, February 2024.

Thanks to all the musicians involved in this project.


Cover photo from a painting by Alfreda Benge

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Luciano Margorani Milan, Italy

Luciano Margorani (Milan, Italy, 1961) Guitarist, bassist, improviser and co-founder with Piero Chianura of the La 1919 duo, he is active in the avant-progressive and improvised musical fields since 1982. He released many albums with La 1919 and also with other musicians such as Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward, Henry Kaiser, Elliott Sharp, Dave Newhouse, Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori ... more

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