SAMAVAYO

In the organizer's words:

"Pāyān. The end. Persian.
SAMAVAYO deals a lot with "the end" on their new album. The end of the bad, the end of the good, the end of humanity, the end of the way we treat our planet.
deal with our planet. It's about the destruction of our planet, division, racism, greed, exploitation, war, isolation, loneliness. But every end also means a beginning, a fresh start and a new beginning.
"Payan" - SAMAVAYO's seventh album in its 22nd year of existence is fresh and full of energy and power!
"Our sound has never been as clear from the ground up as it is on this album. It's fair to say that after 22 years we've finally found our sound."
Musically, the record is audibly different from its predecessors: more heavy, more prog, a lot of anger and a pinch of punk, Alice In Chains vocals in several voices and, last but not least, splashes of color from an illustrious group of guests.
an illustrious group of guests who visited the studio and contributed solo parts that were unusual for SAMAVAYO: Igor Sydorenko (Stoned Jesus), Tommi Holappa (Greenleaf, Dozer), Nick DiSalvo (Elder) and Willi Paschen (Coogans Bluff) didn't take long to show up.
Without lighting the world music incense stick, the trio has consistently woven in the oriental influences and sound colors and also again two songs with Persian vocals. The
title track, as well as the cover version "Talagh" by Iranian pop icon Goo oosh, are extremely dark versions that would also suit Tool rhythmically.
"Shot Shot Shot Shot" is, as the song title says, straight in the face. A feisty uptempo number that leaves no questions unanswered. "Transcend! Exceed!" is ingratiating, melodic, riff-heavy and compact.
One album. Seven songs. Not a single failure. Extensive arrangements, a grandiose production by Behrens (Kadavar, Silvershark, among others). More versatile than ever, uncompromising and hard-hitting.
But the band also thinks outside the box and has ideals and goals that show that they have not only grown musically. "As a musician, you often travel long distances to concerts.
to the concerts. That's why we decided to offset our CO2 emissions by investing in sustainable projects. Our website server runs on green electricity, we produce fair trade
shirts and we make sure that as little plastic or recycled material as possible is used in the production of our recordings."
An extraordinary album and a special band that has not stood still for more than two decades and always has new goals. More than remarkable and there seems to be no end in sight.