Brazil - Kodiak Bachine, 80's Avant-garde

Kodiak Bachine is an organic and electronic progressive one-man band from the great country of Amazon river, Iguazu falls and kings toucans.

He played during the 80's an electronic avant-garde music with some productions references to the incredible extravagance of brazilian vegetation and the mystic of life, instead of mechanicals thematics and electronics first semblances. A kind of mix bettween A. Jodorowsky, Kraftwerk and François de Roubaix. Before his solo carreer, he played solicitating in a band called Agentss, in the same axis, but with a bit less of flamboyance (for me).

His great hit is called "Electicidade" 1982, and the video won lots of awards :

Kodiak Bachine - Electricidade

You can find for free quasi all his musical work on his website here,

and also some quite cool drawing works he does.

I highly recommend you to have a look at his pre-90's music works...

Here are two tracks that I love especially :

Kodiak Bachine - Estados Alterado

Kodiak Bachine & Helena muller - Why these dogs like the sand

Beijos grandes e saude !

Iran - Persians songs for children, Pari Zangeneh

Iranian music scene is one of my favorite in the all world, it's dark as the night, refined in a very special way, quite mystic. Here I want to introduce two greats albums of the sweet singer Pari Zangeneh (Pari Zanganeh in some others traductions). The first one is called "Series of music for young adults", 1978, from arranger Varoujan. Pari sings for children a selection of persian folklorics songs with poetic arrangements and a fine and sweet 70's orchestra. A love master piece for kids.

Pari Zangeneh - Do Beh Do

Pari Zangeneh - Baroun Barouneh

The second one is from a composer named Fariborz Lachini.

It's an audio story book named "Boze Boze Ghandi", 1989, based on a traditional Persian story. The songs and background effects are quite wild, Pari Zangeneh give her voice to the tale and sing also with Elahe Hamidi somes cool songs like you can heard in the following extract.

It's available to buy in MP3 here, with some greats others, like "Carnival of Animals" a 1979 album.

Pari Zangeneh - Boze Boze Ghandi (extract)

For the end we can also see Pari singing "Asmar Asmar Djan" from "Series of music for young adults" in one of her rares videos available on the web :

خداحافظی با تو خدا ♥

Peru - Pintura Roja, 80's Chicha

Pintura Roja - Amiga

Pintura Roja is a peruvian band from the compositor Alejandro Zarate and the beautiful singer Princesa Mily.

During the 80's they played in a style named Chicha, a mix between Tropical music, Cumbia rhythms and Huayno folkloric bewitching melodies.

El telefono is their most famous song, well beyond the montains of Peru :

I like even more Chinito, Jamas or Amiga but finally all songs are HITS :

Con mucho amor, que viva Perú !

Egypt - Fawazeer TV Shows #1 - فوازير

The Fawazeer are specials TV shows made for waiting the end of Ramadaan's fasting in Egypt during the 70's and 80's. There were two big stars dancing and singing, in an "indian bollywood" way : Sherihan and Nelly Kalfayan. It's a magic part of the disco scene from the country of Anubis. Like bollywood made in the Pyramides, with not so much space or money but a lot of brillant ideas, spellbindings melodies, a very good sense of rythm, poetry and a lot of humour. The following extract videos are about Sherihan, I will post an other time about Nelly.

Pakistan - Nazia Hassan

Nazia Hassan is one of the greatest singer in Pakistan and all of the South Asia in the 80's, where she is admired and loved even today, several years after her death. She sing for many composer but almost with her brother Zoheb (Zohaib) Hassan. Their biggest HIT is the great classic "Disco Deewane", but all songs are bewitching and are matched only by its beauty.

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Nazia Hassan - Boom Boom

Pakistan Zindabad !