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TAXI DRIVERS
Cab drivers are as international a group of music-lovers as you'll find anywhere. Click below to hear the tunes that keep the Bristol drivers going.
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Track
1 Our Society
2 Iceberg
3 Meri Tauba
4 Widaa
5 Galim im Roa
6 Akhian
7 Saving Myself
8 Chura Liya
9 Shater
10 Universal Struggle
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Contributor
PATRICK GAYLE
SOROOSH VAKILPOUR
MANZOOR HUSSAIN
ADEL SHAHIN
MOHAMED BEN HASSEN
SHAHBAZ SHAFI
'ICE' aka DAVID TINLING
SHAHAID HUSSAIN
HOSNI AL ALANEH
JIMMY SWING
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Track: Iceberg
Artist: Ebi
Music: Iranian
Chosen by: Soroosh Vakilpour (Bristol)
 ÌýÌýListen to Soroosh Vakilpour and hear the track Iceberg by Ebi (Taraneh Enterprises, USA, 1987)
I come from Iran. I came here first during the revolution. I’ve assumed and resumed studying many times. After 14/15 years, I’ve managed to finish my degree and since then, I haven’t managed to do anything with it. But life seems to take a lot of my time at the moment. With two young children and work and trying to get a young family growing up in a good state and good environment, it’s a very flexible work to get into. You can make good money if you put the hours in and focus and learn the jobs.
Taxi driving can be very detailed. You can really sit down and research into it. I know people, when they’re going through the centre, they know behind which traffic light, when it goes green, how many cars will go through. I can sit here and talk about taxi driving for hours and hours.
Music has always been a very driving part of my life, especially when I want to have 100% concentration on a particular thing I’m doing. Music always helps concentration - you find the right music for what you want to do. I mean I have music that I first heard live. I remember 25 years ago, I heard this piece of music, ‘Ebi Iceberg’. It was New Year’s Eve back home and there were a few pop stars on the television with the entire traditional surroundings and set up. In Iran, New Year starts with the first day of Spring which is 21st March. At the end of every cold Winter, there’s a new life starting. That particular piece of music, I still have it and every time I listen to it, it take me straight back there ... I get the goose bumps and everything to go with it.
I would play that at the end of a hard day
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