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'''''Coup of Gods''''' is a 2021 album by Iranian composer and arranger [[Mehdi Rajabian]]. The album was released 17 September 2021 in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: The Iranian musician risking it all for new album after being jailed for his music|url=https://news.sky.com/story/mehdi-rajabian-the-iranian-musician-risking-it-all-for-new-album-after-being-jailed-for-his-music-12404118|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Sky News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=September 17|first=rew R. Chow|last2=Edt|first2=2021 12:39 Pm|title=Meet the Iranian Musician Who Keeps Risking Imprisonment For His Music|url=https://time.com/6080281/mehdi-rajabian-iran-music/|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Time|language=en}}</ref>This work was arranged and composed by Mehdi Rajabian through his musical mindset of classic and world music by leaning on the tone of native players like Indian [[Sarangi]] and Armenian [[Duduk]] with two American folk singers and the assistance of ‘[[Yaybahar]]’s innovatory instrument and solo classical playing with accompaniment of Sao Paulo’s national orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian risks rearrest with Coup of Gods|url=https://amp.ft.com/content/18622bcc-697b-4bbb-b062-76132783f87b|access-date=2021-09-26|website=amp.ft.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=September 17|first=rew R. Chow|last2=Edt|first2=2021 12:39 Pm|title=Meet the Iranian Musician Who Keeps Risking Imprisonment For His Music|url=https://time.com/6080281/mehdi-rajabian-iran-music/|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Time|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-16|title=Iranian musician brutalized by Tehran hopes Grammys will save him: "My last chance"|url=https://www.newsweek.com/iran-musician-brutalized-tehran-hopes-grammys-will-save-him-my-last-chance-1609175|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>
'''''Coup of Gods''''' is a 2021 album by Iranian composer and arranger [[Mehdi Rajabian]]. The album was released 17 September 2021 in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: The Iranian musician risking it all for new album after being jailed for his music|url=https://news.sky.com/story/mehdi-rajabian-the-iranian-musician-risking-it-all-for-new-album-after-being-jailed-for-his-music-12404118|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Sky News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=September 17|first=rew R. Chow|last2=Edt|first2=2021 12:39 Pm|title=Meet the Iranian Musician Who Keeps Risking Imprisonment For His Music|url=https://time.com/6080281/mehdi-rajabian-iran-music/|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Time|language=en}}</ref>This work was arranged and composed by Mehdi Rajabian through his musical mindset of classic and world music by leaning on the tone of native players like Indian [[Sarangi]] and Armenian [[Duduk]] with two American folk singers and the assistance of ‘[[Yaybahar]]’s innovatory instrument and solo classical playing with accompaniment of Sao Paulo’s national orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian musician rebuffing ban arrested for allegedly encouraging women to dance and sing {{!}} Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranian-musician-detained-for-violating-parole-charged-with-encouraging-women-to-dance-and-sing.amp|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.foxnews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=‘No to war’: Middle East musicians collaborate on a ‘peace album’|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/3/16/no-to-war-middle-east-musicians-collaborate-on-a-peace-album|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian risks rearrest with Coup of Gods|url=https://amp.ft.com/content/18622bcc-697b-4bbb-b062-76132783f87b|access-date=2021-09-26|website=amp.ft.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=September 17|first=rew R. Chow|last2=Edt|first2=2021 12:39 Pm|title=Meet the Iranian Musician Who Keeps Risking Imprisonment For His Music|url=https://time.com/6080281/mehdi-rajabian-iran-music/|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Time|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-16|title=Iranian musician brutalized by Tehran hopes Grammys will save him: "My last chance"|url=https://www.newsweek.com/iran-musician-brutalized-tehran-hopes-grammys-will-save-him-my-last-chance-1609175|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>


== Critics review ==
== Critics review ==
Before global release, this album was praised and admired by more than 40 great critics of the music world like the critics of the [[Billboard Music Awards|Billboard]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref> Newspaper, [[Rolling Stone]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: One Iranian Artist's Fight for Creative Freedom|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mehdi-rajabian-iran-interview-coup-of-gods-1155538/amp/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=Rollingstone|language=en}}</ref>, [[Financial Times]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian risks rearrest with Coup of Gods|url=https://amp.ft.com/content/18622bcc-697b-4bbb-b062-76132783f87b|access-date=2021-09-26|website=amp.ft.com}}</ref> [[Forbes]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=In His Own Words: Iranian Musician Mehdi Rajabian On Why He Is Willing To Risk Jail For His New Album, ‘Coup Of Gods’|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2021/07/26/in-his-own-words-iranian-musician-mehdi-rajabian-on-why-he-is-willing-to-risk-jail-for-his-new-album-coup-of-gods/amp/|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref>, [[Time (magazine)|Time]], [[BBC World Service|BBC]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-14|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58557984|access-date=2021-09-26|website=BBC News|language=en-GB}}</ref>, [[Fox News]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian artist defies regime by releasing new album, risking imprisonment {{!}} Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-mehdi-rajabian-album-risking-imprisonment.amp|access-date=2021-09-26|website=www.foxnews.com}}</ref>, [[Newsweek]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-16|title=Iranian musician brutalized by Tehran hopes Grammys will save him: "My last chance"|url=https://www.newsweek.com/iran-musician-brutalized-tehran-hopes-grammys-will-save-him-my-last-chance-1609175|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>, [[Sky News]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: The Iranian musician risking it all for new album after being jailed for his music|url=https://news.sky.com/story/mehdi-rajabian-the-iranian-musician-risking-it-all-for-new-album-after-being-jailed-for-his-music-12404118|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Sky News|language=en}}</ref> and [[The Times]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: ‘I make music to say I’m alive’|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mehdi-rajabian-interview-music-imprisonment-hunger-strikes-g5mvx0fw7|access-date=2021-08-05|website=TheTimes|language=en}}</ref> who also had a special approval of the album’s excellence and as for Rajabian’s Imprisonments records, they consider this album to be a brand new start for the raving eastern composer after the album ‘[[Middle Eastern (album)|Middle Eastern]]’, plus, they introduced it as ‘one of the main chances to win the 2022 grammy awards.’<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-musician-risks-prison-album-235645541.html|access-date=2021-09-26|website=news.yahoo.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
Before global release, this album was praised and admired by more than 40 great critics of the music world like the critics of the [[Billboard Music Awards|Billboard]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref> Newspaper, [[Rolling Stone]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: One Iranian Artist's Fight for Creative Freedom|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mehdi-rajabian-iran-interview-coup-of-gods-1155538/amp/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=Rollingstone|language=en}}</ref>, [[Financial Times]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian risks rearrest with Coup of Gods|url=https://amp.ft.com/content/18622bcc-697b-4bbb-b062-76132783f87b|access-date=2021-09-26|website=amp.ft.com}}</ref> [[Forbes]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=In His Own Words: Iranian Musician Mehdi Rajabian On Why He Is Willing To Risk Jail For His New Album, ‘Coup Of Gods’|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2021/07/26/in-his-own-words-iranian-musician-mehdi-rajabian-on-why-he-is-willing-to-risk-jail-for-his-new-album-coup-of-gods/amp/|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref>, [[Time (magazine)|Time]], [[BBC World Service|BBC]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-14|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58557984|access-date=2021-09-26|website=BBC News|language=en-GB}}</ref>, [[Fox News]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian artist defies regime by releasing new album, risking imprisonment {{!}} Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-mehdi-rajabian-album-risking-imprisonment.amp|access-date=2021-09-26|website=www.foxnews.com}}</ref>, [[Newsweek]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-16|title=Iranian musician brutalized by Tehran hopes Grammys will save him: "My last chance"|url=https://www.newsweek.com/iran-musician-brutalized-tehran-hopes-grammys-will-save-him-my-last-chance-1609175|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>, [[Sky News]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: The Iranian musician risking it all for new album after being jailed for his music|url=https://news.sky.com/story/mehdi-rajabian-the-iranian-musician-risking-it-all-for-new-album-after-being-jailed-for-his-music-12404118|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Sky News|language=en}}</ref> and [[The Times]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mehdi Rajabian: ‘I make music to say I’m alive’|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mehdi-rajabian-interview-music-imprisonment-hunger-strikes-g5mvx0fw7|access-date=2021-08-05|website=TheTimes|language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-musician-risks-prison-album-235645541.html|access-date=2021-09-26|website=news.yahoo.com|language=en-US}}</ref>


== Suspension of the album ==
== Suspension of the album ==
A year before the album’s launch, [[BBC World Service]] announced the start of making this album on the middle days of 11 August 2020 and this announcement was followed by a wide range of aggression toward Mehdi Rajabian, causing his detention. His detention had the great reflection of many in the world’s medias and eventually, after his liberation, the same restrictions put him through making connection with the world’s musicians and restarting the composition of the album this way<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref>.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-14|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58557984|access-date=2021-09-26|website=BBC News|language=en-GB}}</ref>
A year before the album’s launch, [[BBC World Service]] <ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-26|title=Iranian musician arrested for working with women|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53907674|access-date=2021-09-27|website=BBC News|language=en-GB}}</ref>announced the start of making this album on the middle days of 11 August 2020 and this announcement was followed by a wide range of aggression toward Mehdi Rajabian , causing his detention. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Cascone|first=Sarah|date=2019-07-01|title='I Could Be Arrested at Any Moment': Dissident Musician Mehdi Rajabian on Collaborating With Artists for His Risky New Album|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/zehra-dogan-mehdi-rajabian-dissident-album-1579969|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-08-28|title=Iranian musician faces jail over women dancers and singers|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-women-music-trfn-idUSKBN25O1KO|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brennan|first=David|date=2020-08-13|title=Iran threatens musician with jail for encouraging women to sing, dance|url=https://www.newsweek.com/iran-mehdi-rajabian-jail-women-1524865|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iran: Musician faces jail for working with women dancers, singers|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/28/iran-musician-faces-jail-for-working-with-women-dancers-singers|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=amp|title=|url=https://amp.thenational.ae/world/mena/iranian-musician-s-complete-prohibition-after-allegedly-helping-women-sing-1.1065234|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian artists jailed for defying government restrictions on women singing and dancing - ABC News|url=https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12573412|access-date=2021-09-27|website=amp.abc.net.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iran, arrestato il musicista Mehdi Rajabian: collabora con donne. L'accusa: "Incoraggia la prostituzione" - la Repubblica|url=https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2020/08/28/news/iran_musicista_mehdi_rajabian_arrestato_collaborato_donne-265691560/amp/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.repubblica.it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9630715/mehdi-rajabian-prison-new-album-grammy-harvey-mason|access-date=2021-09-26|website=Billboard|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-14|title=Iranian musician risks prison for new album|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58557984|access-date=2021-09-26|website=BBC News|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sabahi|first=Farian|date=2020-08-27|title=Iran, rischia la prigione il musicista che fa cantare e ballare le donne|url=https://www.corriere.it/esteri/20_agosto_27/iran-rischia-prigione-musicista-che-fa-cantare-ballare-donne-dbc9ad54-e85b-11ea-b091-8b361f593974.shtml|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Iranian musician faces prison for women dancing, singing|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2020/08/28/Iranian-musician-faces-prison-for-women-dancing-singing|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Al Arabiya English|language=en}}</ref>



<ref>{{Cite news|last=Spence|first=Rachel|date=2020-08-20|title=When dance gets dangerous: the perils of free expression in Iran|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/bb399741-970a-40dd-bca6-fd60f756e70b|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref>
== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
{{Track listing

Revision as of 07:46, 27 September 2021

Coup of Gods
Studio album by
Mehdi Rajabian
Released17 September 2021
GenreWorld music
Length34:00
LabelHarvey Mason Jr. - Hundredup

Coup of Gods is a 2021 album by Iranian composer and arranger Mehdi Rajabian. The album was released 17 September 2021 in the United States.[1][2][3]This work was arranged and composed by Mehdi Rajabian through his musical mindset of classic and world music by leaning on the tone of native players like Indian Sarangi and Armenian Duduk with two American folk singers and the assistance of ‘Yaybahar’s innovatory instrument and solo classical playing with accompaniment of Sao Paulo’s national orchestra.[4][5][6][7][8]

Critics review

Before global release, this album was praised and admired by more than 40 great critics of the music world like the critics of the Billboard[9] Newspaper, Rolling Stone[10], Financial Times,[11] Forbes[12], Time, BBC[13], Fox News[14], Newsweek[15], Sky News[16] and The Times.[17] [18]

Suspension of the album

A year before the album’s launch, BBC World Service [19]announced the start of making this album on the middle days of 11 August 2020 and this announcement was followed by a wide range of aggression toward Mehdi Rajabian , causing his detention. [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]

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Track listing

All music is composed by Mehdi Rajabian

No.TitleLength
1."Whip On a Lifeless Body"9:10
2."Murmur of the Naked Nun"10:10
3."An Epitaph on the Tomb of Companions"11:11
4."Coup of Gods"4:00
Total length:34:10

References

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  2. ^ "Iranian Composer Who Risks Jail For Releasing Music Has Submitted Album For Grammy Consideration". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
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  5. ^ "'No to war': Middle East musicians collaborate on a 'peace album'". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
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  19. ^ "Iranian musician arrested for working with women". BBC News. 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  20. ^ Cascone, Sarah (2019-07-01). "'I Could Be Arrested at Any Moment': Dissident Musician Mehdi Rajabian on Collaborating With Artists for His Risky New Album". Artnet News. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  21. ^ "Iranian musician faces jail over women dancers and singers". Reuters. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  22. ^ Brennan, David (2020-08-13). "Iran threatens musician with jail for encouraging women to sing, dance". Newsweek. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  23. ^ "Iran: Musician faces jail for working with women dancers, singers". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  24. ^ amp. https://amp.thenational.ae/world/mena/iranian-musician-s-complete-prohibition-after-allegedly-helping-women-sing-1.1065234. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  28. ^ "Iranian musician risks prison for new album". BBC News. 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  29. ^ Sabahi, Farian (2020-08-27). "Iran, rischia la prigione il musicista che fa cantare e ballare le donne". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-09-27.
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  31. ^ Spence, Rachel (2020-08-20). "When dance gets dangerous: the perils of free expression in Iran". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
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