Nine Heavens
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| Released | June 24, 2008 (U.S.) | |||
| Genre | Dance, Electronica, World | |||
| Label | Six Degrees | |||
| Producer | Azam Ali, Loga Ramin Torkian and Carmen Rizzo | |||
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Nine Heavens (Persian: نه بهشت, Noh behešt) is the second album of Iranian music group Niyaz, an acoustic electronic project. It was released on June 24, 2008 on Six Degrees Records.[2]
The album is divided into 2 discs.[3] One is the electronic version of the album, while the second disc presents eight of the songs as acoustic versions with the exception of "Iman", which is mostly an electronic/ambient piece and features no acoustic instruments but includes Azam Ali's vocals. Many of the track titles were revealed on site of the band's label.[4]
Nine Heavens reached #4 in the Billboard Top World Albums chart.[5]
Track listing[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
- "Beni Beni"
- "Tamana"
- "Feraghi - Song Of Exile"
- "Ishq - Love And The Veil"
- "Allah Mazare"
- "Iman"
- "Molk-E-Divan"
- "Hejran"
- "Sadrang"
Disc 2[edit]
- "Allah Mazare" (acoustic)
- "Beni Beni" (acoustic)
- "Sadrang" (acoustic)
- "Tamana" (acoustic)
- "Feraghi - Song Of Exile" (acoustic)
- "Hejran" (acoustic)
- "Ishq - Love And The Veil" (acoustic)
- "Molk-E-Divan" (acoustic)
Lyrical sources[edit]
"Beni beni" is based on an 18th-century Turkish Sufi folk song.
"Ishq" and "Tamana" are based on ghazal by Khwaja Mir Dard.
The words to "Iman" are drawn from two ruba'iyat by different authors: Mirza Salamat Ali Dabir and Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali.
"Molk-e-Divan" is based on the ghazal Khiz tâ bâde dar pyâle konim by Sufi poet Khâju-ye Kermâni (خواجوی کرمانی) with a few alterations[1], and "Sadrang" draws the lyrics from works by Amir Khusrow (امیر خسرو دهلوی), a 13th-century mystic and poet who, like Niyaz's vocalist Azam Ali, was a Persian raised in India.
In other media[edit]
The songs of "Nine Heavens" were played in several episodes of HBO's television series True Blood.
The song "Beni, Beni" was played in episode 7 of ABC's television series Missing (2012).[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "New Niyaz album, to be released 24th of June". 2008-05-23.
- ^ "Niyaz's New Album Nine Heavens A Double Disc Set". 2008-05-25.
- ^ "The upcoming Niyaz album". 2008-05-25.
- ^ "Nine Heavens chart listing at Billboard Top World Albums". Retrieved December 7, 2008.
- ^ Missing - Music Lounge - ABC.com
