Farya Faraji

Pedicabo Ego Vos - Roman Music

Another historically informed approximation of what Roman music may have sounded like based on the available data, once again created by using the modal framework of Roman music and setting it to the metric structure of their poetry. The melody uses one of the Chromatic modes of Ancient Greco-Roman music, a modal genus with a distinctly jazz-like feel to our ears.

This is my favorite poem from Ancient Rome, by Catullus. Here are the lyrics in English:

I will fuck you in the ass a...

The Snow it Melts the Soonest - English Folk Song

A folk tune from England. Felt like singing it now that winter is here in Canada.

Kul Tigin - Epic Turkic Music

A song in the Old Turkic language about Kul Tigin, a Khagan of the Second Turkic Khaganate, using the sounds of modern traditional Altai and Central Asian Turkic traditions.

Oi Antres Oi Fanisimoi - Greek Song

Video clip for the song posted earlier in here March. The footage was filmed during my April trip in Crete, with footage of Dimitrios playing the instruments filmed last week when I was in Chicago. This is a Cretan folk song that exalts the bravery of the warrior men of Crete, reputed to be possibly the most independent people in Greece, and who have risen up in countless rebellions against the Venetian and Ottoman occupiers of their island.

Tigranes the Great - Epic Armenian Music

A song about Tigranes II the Great, arguably the greatest Armenian monarch in history. The style of the music is Western Armenian dances from the historical Armenian highlands.

Legio V Macedonica - Epic Roman Music

A song about the longest serving Roman legion

Jan Mynen Man - Flemish Song

A folk song from French Flanders

Kalomoiris and the Saracen - Epic Byzantine Music

An arrangement of a folk song from the island Karpathos rooted in Akritic poems of the Middle-Ages

No te vayas de Zamboanga - Filipino Spanish Song

A song from the Philipines written in the Spanish language by Juan Cuadrado, written for his wife and children in Zamboanga after he had to leave. The story is a plea for his beloved not to leave and a promise that, even if she does leave, he will return and they will keep in touch through letters written with a pen, paper, and the blood from his veins.

Dublin Lady - Irish Song

A lesser known Irish folk song

Na ta Taxidepso Thelo - Greek Song

Sto Parathiri Provale - Greek Song

Song from the Cyclades

Guerre, guerre, vente, vent - French Song

A French folk song from the region of Brittany

Shapur the Great - Epic Iranian Music

I did two previous tracks on Shapur I of the Sasanian Empire, this one is on Shapur II, with lyrics in Middle-Persian.

The Battle of Water Deer Valley - Epic Chinese Music

Instruments by Emily Wang, Amanda Toh and Piaosanye. The melody is a historical melody from Tang-era China, circa 1400 years ago, performed with modern Chinese instrumentation. What is understood of the melody is that it was written in commemoration of the soldiers who died during the Battle of the Water Deer Valley, that occured during the reign of Empress Wǔ Zé-tiān. Tang-era melody included a category of dance music called strong dances, which were martial in nature and danced by men, a...

Maral Shisho - Armenian Song

An Armenian folk song sung by me and my mother.

As Xamilonan ta Vouna - Greek Song

A Greek folk song from the island of Kythera that I visited this April.

Le Prince d'Orange - French Song

Builders of Arta - Epic Byzantine Music

Based on a folk song from the island of Skiathos. The story it tells if a widely spread folk motif in Greek folklore, about builders who are trying to build a bridge in Epirus over the river Arta. The bridge keeps falling, and a bird with a human voice appears to them telling that without a human sacrifice, the bridge will not hold. The master builder proceeds to entomb his wife alive in the bridge, and this story has spread throughout Greece in many regions with diverse melodies. This melody...

Marije Bela Marije - Serbian Song

Flowers of Monemvasia - Greek Song Clip

Valerian's Doom - Epic Iranian Music

A sequel of sorts to my song Shapur the Victorious, where the lyrics use the same inscriptions written in the Parthian language by the Sasanian king Shapur I. These describe the defeat of Roman Emperor Valerian, the only time (then) that a Roman Emperor was taken captive by an enemy force.

This piece is rooted in the orchestral, Westernised style of contemporary Iranian music of the 20th century onwards, which saw wide adoption of the Western orchestral and tonal systems. In this syste...

Au Chant de l'Alouette - French Canadian Folk Song

Stella Splendens - Medieval Iberian Song

This is my final rework of Stella Splendens after posting it initially in december of 2023. The aim with this reconstruction is to capture two elements of the song that are often missing in either the Bardcore/Neo-Medieval renditions of the songs, and even some of its historically informed renditions: the fact that this is a song from the Iberian peninsula, and that it's a dance song.

Even in the historical reconstruction scene, Stella Splendens is often only incorporated as an e...

Hey Buğdayım Buğdayım - Turkish Song

A Turkish folk song from the Aegean regions of Anatolia

Deh Fussi la cui Mecho - Renaissance Italian Song

A short composition from the 16th century performed in the period polyphonic style

Canaday I.O

Canadian lumberjack song

Oi Andres oi Fanoisimi

A Cretan folk song

The Last Kayanian

Reprise of my Kayanians theme set to a passage of the Shahnameh

The Seleucids - Epic Music

Early release of a song I made about the Seleucid dynasty, one of the successor states of Alexander's Empire that ruled over Iran and the previous lands of the Achaemenid Empire. The music is a mixture of modern Iranian music with Ancient Greek music, featuring Ancient Greek instrumentation such as aulos, pan flutes and lyres.

The modes used are microtonal modes of current Iranian music dating back to the Middle-Age, as well as enharmonic modes of Ancient Greek music heard in the middl...