Bahram Nouraei


Bahram Nouraei also professionally known as Bahram is a hip hop recording artist and record producer from Tehran, Iran currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. He is one of the premier hip hop artists in Iranian underground music movement and considered to be one of the 50 most influential people in the culture of the Middle East.

Music career

Bahram Nouraei's first breakthrough hit was a political single track called "Nameyee Be Rayees Jomhour" in 2007 which was written in the form of an open letter criticizing the sixth president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His debut album "24 Sa'at" released in August 2008 containing the track "Inja Irane" which is described as a powerful commentary on modern-day of Iran by Rolling Stone.
His second studio album "Sokoot" released in 2011 containing the first Iranian abstract hip hop track called "Khorshid Khanoom" written in the form of a monologue with the sun in a chronological order.

Good Mistake

Bahram's third LP album "Eshtebahe Khoob" is the first Iranian concept album ever made using reverse chronology as the storytelling method. The album has been commonly produced by Bahram Nouraei and Mahdyar Aghajani and sponsored by Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation. Good Mistake is independently released on 4th of July 2015 and ranked #4 and #6 on Billboard's Top World Albums Chart for the last two weeks of July 2015. The project is also followed by a collection of artworks designed exclusively for each and every track in order to provide visual interpretations for the album.

Gozaar

Bahram has been released his brand new EP album called "Gozaar" at the same time as the Iranian New Year. Produced by Nesa Azadikhah, Ashkan Mousavi and Peymandegar.

Activism

In 2009 Bahram spent one week in Evin prison which houses political prisoners. Bahram was accused for illegal cultural activism but luckily set free. He has also appeared in a documentary film called "Bahram: An Iranian Rapper" intended to present the underground music scene in Iran and explain the Iranian culture after the Islamic revolution. The film was presented in an independent film festival called San Francisco's Iranian film festival at the San Francisco Art Institute in September 2011.

Discography

Albums