Steinway & Sons Model D 274 Concert Grand Piano. Live Piano Recording. Orchestral String from Garritan Instant Orchestra. I hope you love the melancholy theme of this song.

Frédéric Chopin - Waltz In B Minor, Op.69 No.2 (No.10) (Orchestrated Version)

Lingering Memories of Love - By Edmond Zarb

Voices Of Spring (Johann Straus)

Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz

The title of this album my attempt at translating the Farsi phrase قارچ‌های غربت to English. It comes from the poem "The Sound of Water's Footsteps" by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri. 

A more literal translation of the phrase would be Mushrooms of "Ghurba", an originally Arabic word that has several meanings, including senses of estrangement, alienation, loneliness, being away for home, and longing.

I composed many of these pieces during and after Israel's 12 day war on Iran in the summer of 2025. Being  an Iranian living abroad for 15 years, I had never felt Ghurba the way I felt it this summer, as I realized more and more that Iranian lives matter to exactly no one.
Ghurba and all its meanings overshadow most of the pieces in this album. 

The music heard on this post is the final track, which is an improv piece with the same title as the album.

In the album art, I tried to depict a mycelial network creeping up the piano and my body, and expanding into the ground, maybe a thread or two reaching the other side of the world where home is.

As Sepehri's poem says "Who cares if sometimes the mushrooms of ghurba start to grow?" 

You are right Sohrab, nobody does...

Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor - Remember to Forget

This composition will be my last post for the year, and would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Blessed and Happy Christmas, and may all your wishes come true for the New Year.....

Art picture is by IIbrahim Gueatar on Unsplash...

Bagatelle opus 15

Anne Marie & James arthur - Rewrite the Stars (piano)

Prélude No. 19 in E-flat major
Lento assai

Préludes

Prélude No. 19 in E-flat major

Prélude No. 19 in E-flat major

Frederic Chopin - Funeral March

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 1, Op. 23

Franz Schubert - Ave Maria

Cellostrada 
Dmitri Shostakovich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA

Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor - Remember to Forget

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