Category: Kamal Same

Kamal Same (born March 14, 1944, Isfahan – died April 22, 1982, Tehran) was a musician and a skilled Ney player.
Biography
Kamal Same was born in Khajavi neighborhood of Isfahan. He studied at Pahlavi School in Isfahan at the elementary level. During this time, he became inclined to black and white painting. He studied natural sciences in Adab High School and graduated from Farhang High School with a diploma.

It was during this period that he became interested in music and attended the classes of استاد حسین یاوری (born 1906, died 1978) and learned the style of Ney playing from him.

He was one of the استادs and Ney players and contemporary of استادs such as Taj Esfahani, Kassai, Abbas Ghazi Esfahani, Abbas Medinaei and Nekouzadeh.

He was noticed for his unique style of Ney playing. From 1964 to 1968, he was artistically active in the orchestra of Isfahan schools with the artists of that time, Soheilian, Nordeh, Talakesh, Saadati, Tabesh and Hossein Omidi. This orchestra was operating under the name of Isfahan Schools Art Club.

It was during this time that he won the first place in playing three times in the art competitions of Isfahan students and went to the national camp in Ramsar. There he met many music استادs. Isfahan Radio also broadcast pieces of his Ney playing under the name of Kamal Esfahani, which unfortunately are not available now.

With the establishment of Isfahan Youth House in 1965 under the management of Habibullah Ashrafi, Kamal Same, together with his musician friends, Masoud Omidi (Santour), Marvi, Naser Mortazavi, Hossein Pourabotalebi, Reza Ghorbanian, Faramarz Kazemi, Khosrow Chenarian, Naser Khayyam Bashi, Jamshid Barazandeh and Mojtaba Shojaei went to the Youth House and performed concerts there in glorious cultural nights.

Kamal Same went to Tehran in 1969 and continued his artistic activity in the Center for the Preservation and Propagation of Iranian Traditional Music. This center was established in 1968 under the management of Dariush Safwat, which was affiliated to the Radio and Television Organization and was under his responsibility until 1980. Safwat, by gathering some استادs of Iranian music such as Noor Ali Khan Boroumand, Saeed Hormozi, Abdullah Khan Davami, Mahmoud Karimi and Yousef Foroutan, etc., was able to train a group of elite students and deliver them to the music community. In this center, devices, corners, subtleties and secrets of traditional music were taught to enthusiastic and talented young people who were studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts, under the supervision of استاد Noor Ali Khan Boroumand. Kamal Same was accepted in this center in 1969 and joined a group of artists such as Davood Ganjei, Abdulmajid Kiani, Naser Farhang Far, Jalal Zulfonun, Hossein Alizadeh, Parviz Meshkatian, Dariush Talaei, Reza Shafieian, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Marta Mani Zadeh and…

Mohammad Reza Lotfi in an interview entitled “Untold stories of Mohammad Reza Lotfi from the Center for the Preservation and Propagation of Music” which was published on May 3, 2014 on the website of the Center for Iranian and Islamic Studies, says about this center and the performance of music program in the sixth Shiraz Art Festival:

We also worked with استاد Boroumand in the form of two groups in the interval of 6 to 8 months. I was in charge of one group and خانم مانی‌زاده, Naser Farhangfar, Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Moghaddasi and Hassan (Kamal) Same were with us and Zulfonun was in charge of the other group, which was accompanied by Majid Kiani, Dariush Talaei and Naser Farhangfar, etc. We were practicing Darvish Khan’s works and Boroumand taught me these works and I worked with the group and finally Boroumand controlled. Razavi Sarvestani performed Segah Taherzadeh with Zulfonun’s group, and Mohammadreza Shajarian performed Mahoor with our group. I met Shajarian on the same date. In any case, we went to the Art Festival and performed a very good program. In fact, the youth of Shiraz Festival, foreigners and everyone for the first time heard music that was more than 50 years away from hearing it.

Kamal Same participated in the sixth Shiraz Art Festival in 1972 with Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hossein Alizadeh, Marta Mani Zadeh, Mohammad Moghaddasi, Naser Farhang Far and Mohammad Reza Shajarian and performed a concert (May your gardener be forbidden) with the voice of استاد Shajarian.

In the 1970s, Kamal Same performed several programs for the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents. Among the notable works was the album Dileman with Shajarian’s voice and Same’s Ney.

He was also a member of Asghar Zand Vakili’s group, which performed a music program every week in Miami. In the summer of 1976, this group performed Mabtab شب امشب on national television live.

Among the notable radio works were the activities that he did jointly with Nader Golchin.

In 1975, with the efforts of Kambiz Roshan Ravan, the narration of Niko Khirdmand, the singing of Mohammadreza Shajarian and the Ney of Kamal Same, several grams pages were recorded and published regarding the teaching of music instruments with the title of Chahargah device and Afshari melody and the album Avaz in two cassettes. Other استادs who performed in this collection. Santour: Esmail Tehrani Tar: Houshang Zarif Kamancheh: Rahmatullah Badiei Oud: Mohammad Delnavazi Setar: Mehrbanoo Tofigh

One of his most outstanding works is the album Dileman and his collaboration with Mohammadreza Shajarian.

The works collected from this artist on the private website are as follows: