Behrooz Mihankhah - Piano (composer/arranger)
Mohammad Sahraei - Taar
Andrew Jackson - trombone
Charles Urich - drums
Pat Healy - Guitar
John Janigan-Mills - Bass
Pouya Shekarriz - Tombak
Andrew Mackelvie - Saxophone
Emery Van de Weil - Flute

Composed, Arranged and Produced by Behrooz Mihankhah
Co-produced by Dario Lozano-Thornton & John Janigan-Mills
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dario Lozano-Thornton
Assistant recording engineer Jim Legere
Photography by Dario Lozano-Thornton
Album Art and Design by India Gailey
Featured Art by Mohammad Bozorgi (The Route of Creation, 2015, acrylic on canvas)

This album was recorded at the Music Room in K'jipuktuk in Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

Inspired by his migrations through Iran, India and finally to Canada, Behrooz Mihankhah’s Lydium takes impressionist and jazz compositions and presents them in an Iranian instrumental context. This collection of original and pre-existing pieces fuses musical traditions of the past with contemporary concepts of composition and improvisation.


"لیدیوم" بهروز میهن خواه با الهام از آموخته ها ی مهاجرت پرفراز و نشیبش از ایران به هندوستان و  در نهایت به کانادا ساخته شده است. تجربیاتی که سرانجام رویای سیاره بدون مرز را برای همیشه در دلش نشاند.
 بهروز میهن خواه در این مجموعه  با استفاده از قطعات اصلی و  با هم آمیزی برخی از قطعات موسیقی امپرسیونیستی و جاز , در پس زمینه موسیقی سرزمین مادری اش ، سنت های موسیقایی گذشته را با مفاهیم معاصر آهنگسازی و بداهه نوازی مدرن در هم می آمیزد .
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“I would like to personally thank the musicians involved in this project, the production crew, my teachers, my family and my mentors, along with the generations of musicians and composers from around the world who have inspired my work. Special thanks to FACTOR, Music Nova Scotia and Hughie Langin Foundation, who’s support made the creation and production of this album possible.”  - Behrooz Mihankhah

Halcyon (Radio Edit)

Lydium (Radio Edit)

Naima

Gymnopedie

Gnossienne

Outdoors

Halcyon

Black Narcissus

An interpretation of a folk melody from Armenia and Iran region.

Saroomad Zemestoon (Live) -  Winter is Over

An interpretation of John Coltrane's Giant Steps.

Giant Steps - Live from the Music Room

Iranian composer, pianist, and singer/songwriter Behrooz Mihan started performing professionally as a singer/songwriter in India in 2011. In 2013 he shifted his focus to piano and composition when he went to Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music in Tamil Nadu, India in 2013.  Along with a major in piano and composition he studied jazz, western harmony, Carnatic music and Konnakol While in India, he played, toured, and had multiple television performances with various ensembles including bands such as “Many Roots Ensemble” and his own group “Behrooz Mihan Ensemble”.  He toured throughout India (New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Rajasthan, Mumbai) and Eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI). Behrooz holds a Bachelor of Music from St. Francis Xavier University in Jazz Studies and Sociology and a Music Arts Diploma from the Nova Scotia Community College. Since 2015 Behrooz has lived in Halifax where he has been writing, producing, performing, and touring with local bands such as Superfluid, Lazeez and Open Borders and Lately he is in the process of creating his debut full-lenght Jazz album as well as a bi-lingual singer-songwriter album.

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