Melody Pezeshkian is the host of 'Borders of Sound' on Particle FM, a San Diego-based internet radio station. Her show showcases music from countries with rich cultural heritage, whose people have been displaced or whose culture has been oppressed.
and you might hear a style of Afghan music known to accompany its national dance, Attan. The music speeds up and typically uses a tablah . Or, Armenian music featuring the duduk , played at weddings and festivals. It’s all been an opportunity to take a deep dive into different countries and their individual sounds.
“I wanted the show to be a way to share and showcase music from different cultures that Western listeners wouldn’t be familiar with. When I go to house shows, I always hear and love Latin house, or I’ll hear Middle Eastern/Arab influences in house music, but I can never attribute the music I’m hearing to one region. It’s nice to have the diverse sounds in the scene,” she says.
As I’ve been doing the show, I’ve come to find another motivation for the focus: It’s become really important to me to focus on people who have been displaced or oppressed, for the sake of preserving cultures, especially with countries who are having border crises or are fighting for their stability. There’s so much history, culture, and current turmoil in some of the countries that are featured on the show.
I grew up in Glendale which actually has an Armenian population of 40 percent. Iran and Armenia are neighbors, geographically, so it was nice to share a home with a large Armenian population growing up. We’re also neighbors with Afghanistan, so that kind of explains the first few episodes of “Borders of Sound” — so far, I’ve featured Afghanistan, Iran, Armenia, and a few others.It’s really quiet and peaceful.
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