Hi, you're listening to the Music That Matters podcast where each week a KXP DJ brings you an exclusive mix of their favorite new music or what they've been listening to lately.

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I'm Derek Mazzoni. i do a show called wopop

focusing on music from all over the world you can find it every tuesday from six to nine p m

online anytime you want it at kxb dot org this particular podcast is a focus on the music of iran

now iran of course is in news. It is one of the ancient

civilizations of the planet, the Persian civilization. It has gone through many changes politically.

There is a pretty significant expat population throughout the world. So some of the music you'll

be hearing, it was made in Iran and also music that was made

by people of Iranian descent that now live in Tel Aviv, L.A., Seattle, and beyond. But the nature

of the music, they're from this ancient tradition, classical improvisation, and just the way it sounds really takes you to that country,

which has played such a huge role in world history and even political history right now.

I hope you enjoy it.

It's going to be a pretty interesting range of flavors,

and I hope you enjoyed so much that you'll share this podcast and support Kexp.

And let us continue to do this great work.

Okay, let's get started.

You're going to hear in this set music from Iranian-Canadian band, Niyaz.

So we're going to start with more of like a dance flavor, which I love.

I'm a DJ.

This fills a floor nicely.

Then, as promised, the first female hip-hop artist in Iran Salome, MC, a pretty amazing artist

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