Nirvana - Shahrokh Yadegari, Azam Ali & Keyavash Nourai

Inspired by the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, who has been hailed as one of the most important contemporary poets of Iran, "Green Memories" is a suite of structured improvisations, using collaborative creative techniques and an instrument called Lila, an electronic program Shahrokh Yadegari invented that transforms the input of acoustic instruments to create a complex weave of melodies and textures.
Through Lila, he forges a musical environment with violinist Keyavash Nourai and vocalist Azam Ali. Both Nourai and Azam Ali share Yadegari's ability to move effortlessly between Western and Persian musical worlds.

The final destination for this collective musical exploration that ends in the only notated piece, "Mantra" was the aching poetry of Forough Farrokhzad. "The poetry of Farrokhzad like any other great work of art taps into the collective unconscious and offers a shift in perception that can affect our experience of reality" says Azam Ali. "During the recording of Green Memories, I felt this shift of perception of myself; like the three of us were part of something greater than anything I could imagine". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.