رقص بکن شور بده
Raqs Bokon Shor Bede
“Dance, Create Commotion”
Dance, Create Commotion — an invitation to the kind of public joy that Persian poetry has always associated with the beloved's presence, her movement as the cause of the world's disruption.
About This Recording
Dance, Create Commotion belongs to the celebratory vein of Persian lyric — the tradition that sees the beloved's movement, her dancing, as an event that causes genuine disruption in the world order. The 'shor' (commotion) the dance creates is not mere noise but a kind of beautiful disorder, the world rearranged around the fact of her motion.
The recording has an energy that matches what it describes: it asks for dancing and it sounds like dancing, the arrangement propulsive, the voice inviting rather than lamenting. Among his catalog's many sorrowful recordings, this one stands out for its insistence on joy as the appropriate response to the beloved's presence.