Pushtigban’s Honour - Epic Iranian Music

Music by Farya Faraji. Artwork by J.F Oliveiras, please check out his work on Artstation or Instagram, he makes the most beautiful accurate visual reconstructions of Ancient Iranian cultures. Please note that this isn’t reconstructed music from the Sasanian Era, it’s entirely modern Iranian music with a historical theme. The Pushtigban was an elite military unit of the Sasanian Empire, tasked with the protection of the Shahanshah. Most commonly deployed as fully armored cataphracts, they numbered around 1000 and were stationed in the capital of Ctesiphon. The instrumentation consists of a violin played in the Iranian style, a kemenche, a tar, a tanbour, and daf drums. The time signature is 7/8, a time signature most commonly heard in Classical Persian music, and more rarely in some folk music like in Khorasan, and the mode is the medieval Iranian version of Nava, which corresponds to the modern Western Aeolian mode.