Hermes Records

Hermes Records is an independent record label founded in Tehran, Iran, in 1999 by Ramin Sadighi.^[1] Under the slogan music for music, Hermes has published and produced mainly contemporary Persian music.

Hermes Records
Founded	1999
Founder	Ramin Sadighi
Genre	World music Contemporary Classical Jazz
Country of origin	Iran
Location	Tehran
Official website	Official Web site

Hermes Records has published different styles and genres of contemporary Persian music, as well as interactions between western and oriental musical textures and harmonies.^[2] It has been described as having "almost singlehandedly built a much needed platform for artists and fans of genuinely experimental Iranian music".^[3] The label is officially distributed in Iran, Turkey, Italy, UK, France, Germany, Greece & BeNeLux.^{[citation needed]}

Genres

Ramin Sadighi (CEO of Hermes Records) has produced different styles of contemporary Persian musicians. The label does not produce strictly classical Persian music and pop music, as they have their own labels, and vocal music by women is censored by the government of contemporary Iran.^[4]

In a 2009 article for MERIP, Sadighi and Mahdavi described the evolution of the post-revolutionary music scene in Iran, its subversive character, and Western misconceptions of underground and rock music in Iran.^[5]

Selection of musicians

Ahmad Pejman, Alireza Mashayekhi, Hossein Alizadeh, Dušan Bogdanović, Peyman Yazdanian, Pejman Hadadi, Hooshyar Khayam, Nima A Rowshan,Sahba Aminikia,^{[citation needed]}, Quartet Diminished^[6]

Awards and nominations

• 2006: Label of the year at Fajr International Music Festival^[1]
• 2007: Grammy Awards – Endless Vision by Hossein Alizadeh, Jivan Gasparyan^[7] – nominated^[1]
• 2015: Womex Award for Professional Excellence^[8]

References

1. Meadley, Phil (4 May 2007). "The Persian music-makers". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
2. Hodgson, Martin (22 April 2007). "Iran's other face". The Observer. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
3. Dunn, Lucinda; Shaeyghi, Nima (February 2009). "Global Ear: Tehran". The Wire. No. 300. p. 18.
4. "Music's Messenger – Interviews | Little White Lies". 27 February 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
5. Ramin Sadighi, Sohrab Mahdavi (12 March 2009). "The Song does not remain the same". MERIP. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
6. All About Jazz. "Quartet Diminished: Station Three album review". All About Jazz. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
7. McDaid, Carol (31 July 2005). "Jazz and world CDs". The Observer. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
8. "WOMEX 15 AWARDS * Award winners". womex.com. 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2015.

Further reading

• Moazami M. (2021) Tehran, Iran: Experimental’ Electronic Scene (2000–2020). In: Darchen S., Charrieras D., Willsteed J. (eds) Electronic Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4741-0_16

External links

• Official website
• Video on the occasion of 22 years of Hermes Records
• Hermes Records YouTube channel
• Hermes Records on Discogs
• Herms Records on classical next
• Q & A with Ramin Sadighi the founder of Hermes Records. by Spencer Grady, Record Collector, March 2010^[dead link]
• Interview with Ramin Sadighi (article in Italian) Thursday, 29 November 2007^[dead link]