{"product_id":"marjan-vahdat-our-garden-is-alone","title":"Marjan Vahdat \/\/ Our garden is alone \/\/ CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarjan Vahdat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew solo album recorded on three continents: “Our Garden is Alone”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjan Vahdat\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;is now releasing her third solo album, “\u003ci\u003eOur Garden is Alone”.\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;This time she has\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eBugge Wesseltoft\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eMahsa Vahdat\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;also has contributed a few melodies, and some of the melodic and lyrical material has traditional roots. Poems by the contemporary poets \u003cb\u003eAhmad Shamloo\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eForough Farrokhzad\u003c\/b\u003e have also been included.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs are mostly about longing, and while they might appear to be love poetry, on some of the songs the listener can decide\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan\u003ewhether\u003c\/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;the longing is for a lover or the country of Iran, this garden among the nations of the world that has been left stranded by the world community due to geopolitical power struggles and the Islamic revolution in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarjan lives in exile in the USA, and there is little doubt that in several of her songs she expresses her deep longing for her native country, which has so many cultural treasures of poetry, music, pictures and textiles to offer, in addition to unique cultural landscapes and stories from a deep and rich cultural tradition. And of course, she also misses the people who live there – the people she grew up with, but now is prohibited from meeting. She is still always hopeful to some day in the future being able to return to her homeland. Here are Marjan’s own poetic words about the album, printed on the album cover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e«Leyli's\u0026nbsp;garden desires my voice,\u0026nbsp;I chanted for her blooming hope till the break of dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI handed over her thirsty flowers to the moon and to the heart of Alborz»\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;On the album you will hear, in addition to\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eMarjan Vahdat\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(vocals),\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eBugge Wesseltoft\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(piano, accordion, keyboards),\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eJo Berger Myhre\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(double bass and electric bass),\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eKenneth Ekornes\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(drums and percussion),\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eShervin Mohajer\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(kamancheh) and\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003ePasha Hanjani\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;(ney flute).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album has been recorded in the USA, Iran and Norway, and had been mixed into a whole by\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eBugge Wesseltoft\u003c\/b\u003e, with\u0026nbsp;\u003cb\u003eMartin Abrahamsen\u003c\/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;as sound technician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreviously Marjan Vahdat has released the solo albums “\u003ci\u003eBlue Fields”\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;(2013) and “\u003ci\u003eSerene Hope”\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;(2017). In addition, she can be heard on several albums with her sister Mahsa. KKV has released all these albums. The\u0026nbsp;collaboration between KKV and Marjan and her sister\u0026nbsp;started with “Lullabies from the Axis of Evil” in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKirkelig Kulturverksted, Oslo 2022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kirkelig Kulturverksted","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41472008913091,"sku":"FXCD485","price":179.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0610\/7116\/3587\/products\/MarjanVahdatnettbutikk.jpg?v=1643877972","url":"https:\/\/kkvbutikken.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/marjan-vahdat-our-garden-is-alone","provider":"KKV Nettbutikk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}