Did you know that Kourosh Yaghmaei is still alive, but never left Iran, even after the Cultural Revolution meant much of his music was no longer allowed? He’s run a private music school all these years, and has been allowed to perform outside the country in the past couple decades. But in the liner notes for the release of Back from the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran: 1973-1979 (of which there was a 45 release, which this slowed down rip comes from), Kourosh admitted how hard it was to live under state censorship, but choosing to remain in a place he loved and was his home. He wrote, “Even a pet bird must fly, as to not to forget how to fly,” in a metaphor similar to Maya Angelou’s 1983 “Caged Bird” poem.
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