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Hadi Pakzad
Hadi Pakzad, known as “H-P”, was born in December 1982 in Mashhad, Iran, and began writing fiction and composing rock music in his teens. He released seven concept albums and the official selection Darkness, writing the lyrics and musical ideas of all of them himself. He died in May 2016.
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Yellow Harmony Rehearsal (Part 2)
And get used to me like a painting, through the channel of your gaze / 'Cause I can't move out of the black frame
Revenge Machine
A list of wishes to kill, to go over before you sleep / To feel proud of cutting out your own flesh and blood
And What About Our Scholars?
Last year one of our country's great scholars was my guest, for a reason other than any merit of my own. He is not only a great philosopher and thinker, he is admired by…
Black Rose
And short hallucinations where you sat beside me / I'm fog, hanging close to the ground
Untitled — “Is Magic an Art Too?”
A friend asked me, is magic an art too? I wanted to say art is magic, then saw that it was a routine, trite answer, and that I don't really know what art is myself. Off…
Hadi Pakzad Reads Raymond Carver's “Why, Honey?”
Raymond Carver's short story “Why, Honey?”, read in Persian by Hadi Pakzad.
Darkness Album Launch: Nava's Video Report
Nava's photo report from the launch of the album Darkness
Free Spirit Rehearsal (Part 1)
Your whole being lights up, but you deny it / My love, every day you're changing, form to form
I'm Done
It was a little past sunset, and once again I'd fallen asleep in the light and woken up in the dark on the couch. I tried to turn on the TV without moving, so its noise…
The One I Loved To Be Rehearsal
He's here with chains for your hands / He's come with a list of your failures / He's the dead hopes of your own self / He's the burnt-out wish that turned into you
About the Songs: Hadi Pakzad's Notes
Six notes by Hadi Pakzad on his songs “There's Nothing”, “Book”, “Doctor”, “What About Me?”, “Death Angel” and “Earth”.
Untitled — “Who Was the First to Think I Was Bad?”
I don't know: who was the first to think I was bad? I don't remember who first told me I was bad. I've forgotten when I first thought I was doing something bad. I never…
My Evolution (Poster)
Gradual Evolution poster
Yellow Harmony Rehearsal (Part 1)
Be there, but be parallel; come along, but don't touch me / Don't crave a compound or a reaction or whatever, I'm scared, don't / Don't come looking for me, I'll get…
Good Night
Good Night As a child I never by nature counted dolls among my toys. I had no interest in them at all, neither human dolls nor animals. But my sister, who was older than…
Crocodile
Crocodile You know, crocodiles have a hard time walking on land, so they prefer to sit for long stretches, silent and still, under muddy water. Basically they're…
Communication With The Deaf
Communication With The Deaf
Spy
Spy Honestly, I've worked since I was a kid. Every summer I'd go somewhere to learn a trade. I know repairs, for instance, everything from radios and car stereos to TVs.…
Untitled — “Just Shut Your Mouth”
Just shut your mouth, don't voice your firm convictions, come a little further with my assumptions. From here, look at what the passersby see of us through the window…
What Is Talking
Apart from the linguistic definition, which is the most general of them and settles for the production of sounds to convey meanings, talking is so vast a subject that…