Mohsen Namjoo: Meet the Iranian Jim Morrison
By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor
Although his music has been haunting my headspace for the past several weeks, I can't pretend to understand the poetic, classical or political context in which Iranian singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo works. The main problem is that Namjoo, who was born in 1976 in the town of Torbat e-Jam in northeastern Iran, sings in Persian, and only a handful of songs from his six albums have been translated into English. He also composes from deep within… more »