''Niyaz'' is the debut album of the Iranian music group
Niyaz
Niyaz ( fa, نياز) is an Iranian Canadian musical duo. The group was created in 2004 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ram ...
, an acoustic electronic project. The word "Niyaz" means "yearning" in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
.
''Niyaz'' reached #12 in the ''
Billboard
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Top World Albums chart.
The track ''Dilruba'' was remixed by
Junkie XL
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.
Track listing
# "Ghazal"
# "Nahan 'The Hidden'"
# "Allahi Allah"
# "The Hunt"
# "Dunya"
# "In The Shadow Of Life"
# "Arezou"
# "Golzar"
# "Dilruba"
# "Minara"
# "Amritsar to Amman" (Digipack bonus track)
Lyrical content
"Nahan" is based on parts of
خوش باش که هر که راز داند (Xoš bâš ke har ke râz dânad) from
Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
''Divan-i Kebir'', also known as Divan i Shams, is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the Persian language, i ...
by
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلالالدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...
.
"Allahi Allah" is based on a traditional Urdu religious song.
"The Hunt" is based on the poem بیا بریم دشت (Biyâ berim dašt) by the 14th century Persian poet
Obeyd-e Zakani.
References
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2005 debut albums
Niyaz albums
Six Degrees Records albums