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Golnar Shahyar (Vocals)
Mahan Mirarab (Guitars)
Shayan Fathi (Drums/Percussion)
Lyrics: Vahid Dastgerdi

Moseme Gol

Golnar Shahyar (Vocals)
Mahan Mirarab (Guitars)
Shayan Fathi (Drums/Percussion) 
Lyrics: Ahmad Shamloo

Dar Lahze

Golnar Shahyar (Vocals)
Mahan Mirarab (Guitars)
Shayan Fathi (Drums/Percussion)
Lyrics: Golnar Shahyar

Pari

Mahan Mirarab/Wolfi Rainer/Martin Heinzle, LIVE 28.05.2011

Haj ghorban by Mahan Mirarab

Golnar Shahyar: Voice
Mahan Mirarab: Guitar, Fretless guitar, Setar
Martin Heinzle: Contrabass
Klemens Marktl: Drums

The Iranian/Austrian quartet, Choub, began its collaboration in the Spring of 2011.
It offers a mixture of Persian music and western jazz with Latin and African influences.
Soft harmonies, dynamism, virtuosity and playfulness define the character of the band. With her nuanced voice, Golnar Shahyar, 27 years old, interprets lyrics of the Persian poets, Hafez and Omar Khayyam, as well her own lyrics in Farsi, English and an improvised fantasy language.
The 28-year old Mahan Mirarab brings to the band his stunning guitar playing skills with absolute ease, which is powered by jazz pulses from Martin Heinzle and Klemens Marktl.
Choub is musical expansion and cosmopolitan jazz with a Persian aroma that touches even the most reserved audience.


Haj Ghorban with Choub Quartet

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01 Haj Ghorban

Golnar Shahyar: Voice
Mahan Mirarab: Guitar, Fretless guitar, Setar
Martin Heinzle: Contrabass
Klemens Marktl: Drums

The Iranian/Austrian quartet, Choub, began its collaboration in the Spring of 2011.
It offers a mixture of Persian music and western jazz with Latin and African influences.
Soft harmonies, dynamism, virtuosity and playfulness define the character of the band. With her nuanced voice, Golnar Shahyar, 27 years old, interprets lyrics of the Persian poets, Hafez and Omar Khayyam, as well her own lyrics in Farsi, English and an improvised fantasy language.
The 28-year old Mahan Mirarab brings to the band his stunning guitar playing skills with absolute ease, which is powered by jazz pulses from Martin Heinzle and Klemens Marktl.
Choub is musical expansion and cosmopolitan jazz with a Persian aroma that touches even the most reserved audience. 

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Mahan Mirarab Trio
Mahan Mirarab: Guitar and Fretless Guitar
Martin Heinzle: Bass
Klemens Marktl: Drums

MAHAN MIRARAB TRIO-Medley

www,mahanmirarab.com
Mahan Mirarab: Fretless guitar
Robert Jukic: Bass
Wolfi Rainer: Drums

Mahan Mirarab (Jazz guitarist, Fretless guitarist, Composer, Architect)

Born on 13 July, 1983 in Tehran, started his first experience of art with painting, he spent his childhood during the war of Iran-Iraq in 80's. He started his first musical activities with playing piano at the age of 12 and after a year he switched to classical guitar. At that time there was no opportunities in Iran to listen to jazz music but at the age of 16 he could find the access to some tapes of Wes Montgomery and he started transcribing his tunes. In spite of lack of any approach to the basic learning instrument or any kinds of media in the form of books or any kind of recordings, he started to learn jazz. Although there was no teacher and school of music in Iran and the first step of his learning process was really hard, later after the development
of media in Iran in Mid 90`s he had the opportunity to listen to other jazz musicians and Kept continuing transcribing and analyzing the music of jazz legends like Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Clifford brown, John Coltrane and many more.
Nearby tacking the first steps of learning music, according to his excessive passion to get influences from Persian traditional music, he started to play one of the main Persian musical instruments, called TAR. The influences and inspirations that he achieved from getting involved in learning traditional music have an indispensable role to shape his character as a musician, that is not only interested in jazz music but also is always grateful for Persian folk and traditional music. The main idea of playing
fretless guitar is on the one hand the difference between Persian and classic scales, because of existence of quarter tones in Persian music which makes it possible to be played by F.Guitar, and on the other hand it derived from his intention to find an appropriate and sufficient instrument that can accurately describe and express Iranian identity in his musical character.
The summer of 2003 was an important point of jazz music in Iran because the Legendary Armenian Pianist, Vahag Hyrapetian, organized the first jazz workshop in Iran since the Revolution of 1979.

It was a determinative event that was held for the first time in the realm of jazz music in Iran. Mahan attended to this workshop and also was asked by Vahag to play a duo concert with him.
Right after that he established his first Band as a Trio
set up with Dara Daraeei on bass and Amin Taheri on Drums. After some Concert Hamzeh Yeganeh a great Persian pianist and composer joined the band.
Beside his own project he cooperated with many concert and recording sessions as a side man during all this time. in 2008 he finished his studies in architecture in Tehran
art and architecture university and decided to move to Vienna. There he recorded his first Album with Wolfi Rainer(drums) and Robert Jukic(bass).This album is
a combination of Persian folk and traditional music with jazz .
The composition and arrangement of this project that started in Iran in 2006 is already
concluded and recorded in Vienna’s session in title "The Persian Side of Jazz" After moving to Vienna Mahan played with different Jazz and World music ensembles in Different European countries as well as United States.

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Text: Hafez
Music: Mahan Mirarab
Voice: Golnar Shahyar
Fretless Guitar: Mahan Mirarab
Bass: Martin Heinzle
Drums: Klemens Marktl

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