Farman Fathalian | fr

Farman Fathalian was born in 1970 in Tehran. When he was five years old, his parents encouraged him to learn the violin in a music institute. After the Islamic revolution, he played different musical instruments and gradually guitar became his specialty. In 1992, he performed his first guitar concert at the Centre for Mental Nurture of Children and Teenagers cinema in Tehran, which attracted much attention. Farman Fathalian is best known as a devotee of Ali-ibn-i-Abi-Talib, who is the first leader, after Islam's prophet, in Shiite and the fourth caliph in Sunni religions. In music, he intelligently mixes these religious...

"The main idea of ALFARMANIA project is pain and anger arising from living in unbearable urban poverty oppressed by ghetto weight and drug-induced oblivion. ALFARMANIA music is brimming with insanity, negative emotional charge and filthy technocratic dizziness crafted with low quality tools. ALFARMANIA music reveals claustrophobia syndrome among four walls of an asylum, the hell of chemical paradise and existential terror." http://www.alfarmania.se .