Track length: | 6:44 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Producer: | Erik Hillestad |
Genre: | crossover |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 6:30 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 3:44 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 3:48 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 4:49 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 96 120627 |
Track length: | 2:42 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 8:25 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: |
Track length: | 8:20 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 20627 MA |
Track length: | 9:59 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 8:23 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
Track length: | 2:33 |
Artist: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
Performer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) - vocal |
Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum). | |
Composer: | Masha Vahdat (Iran) , Marjan Vahdat (Iran) |
ISRC: | 120627 MA |
The Iranian singing sisters Marjan and Mahsa Vahdat are denied a stage in their homeland. The regime in Iran has since the Islamic revolution in 1979 banned female vocal performance. The two sisters refuse to quit singing and they are in the highest range of quality among 70 million people.
Their stages are in Europe and America, Asia and other places in the Middle East where a growing amount of people admire their art.
These days the Norwegian label KKV releases their new album: “Daram Omidi – Twinklings of Hope”. Even if it does not get a formal and official release in Iran, it will find its way across continents to the many people who love the voices of Mahsa and Marjan and their music.
On the CD their Persian ensemble accompany the two remarkable voices. These are Atabak Elyasi (setar), Pasha Hanjani (ney flute) and Ali Rahimi (daf, Persian drum).
The album is recorded and produced by Erik Hillestad in an old harem in a beautiful old mansion in Tehran.
Mahsa Vahdat
Mahsa was born in Tehran in 1973, She started her career in music by taking piano lessons of Minoo Mohebbi from an early age. She continued the piano with Laleh Aghevli. She picked up Persian traditional singing with Pari Maleki and continued singing with Mehdi Fallah and Mohsen Keramati. Vahdat also plays the setar which she studied under Ramin Kakavand and later Masoud Shoari. She entered the Art University in Tehran in 1993 and graduated from the Music Faculty with a BA in Music. In the Art University she has been under the influence of master musicians such as Sharif Lotfi, Ahmad Pejman, Hooshang Zarif, Behnam Vadani, Abdorreza Sajadi, Hushang Kamkar, and Mohammad Reza Darvishi.
Marjan Vahdat
Marjan Vahda...