Marjan Vahdat | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Marjan Vahdat is now releasing her third solo album, “Our Garden is Alone”. This time she has Bugge Wesseltoft with her as producer and arranger. The music has been produced during these trying corona times, so the ensemble has created the music without being able to meet in the studio.

The process started with Marjan recording all the vocal tracks, with the musicians then making their contributions one by one and in this way building the arrangements. In spite of this difficulty, the producer has masterfully brought all these threads together to create an authentic and harmonised soundscape around Marjan’s powerful voice. The music has a great span of expressions, depths and dynamics.

The songs have been created with inspiration from traditional music and poetry from various parts of Iran, but most of the melodies and lyrics have been written by Marjan, while her older sister Mahsa Vahdat also has contributed a few melodies, and some of the melodic and lyrical material has traditional roots. Poems by the contemporary poets Ahmad Shamloo and Forough Farrokhzad have also been included.