Meridionality Music Festival - Season 3: "Songs from the Hood"
Golnar Shahyar + Mahan Mirahab
This is the first of four concerts of the traditional Spring music festival Meridionality. Save the other dates: 10.5./16.5./24.5. !
Offering a masterful and fresh approach to the art of musical storytelling, Golnar & Mahan draw together elements of contemporary jazz, Southwest Asian microtonal modes, poly-rhythmic grooves, European chamber and experimental music to create an original sound. A sound that elegantly claims attention to a new generation of creatives in European diaspora whose approach and cultural references are confronting the accustomed ears of what contemporary music could/should be.
The duo improvises its way through structured compositions, powerful grooves and most delicate sounds in such masterful way that one can hardly notice the complexity of their music. A profound sound that consciously escapes clichés and boxes to merge into a genre-less space where the power of musical storytelling is celebrated in an utterly authentic way.
BIO:
Iranian-Canadian vocalist, composer, lyricist & multi-instrumentalist, Golnar Shahyar moved to Vienna in 2008 to pursue a musical career that has seen her collaborate with artists such as Erkan Ogur, Alain Perez, and the ORF Radio Symphonie Orchestra, amongst others. In 2011 she met Iranian-Austrian fretless guitarist and composer Mahan Mirarab, an internationally active interpreter of Persian music through the medium of jazz. Inseparable musical partners ever since, they have pursued their collective vision in their various bands and projects for almost a decade.
