“Fingerpaint is a minimalist, solo setar album that introduces a new personal and innovative technique I have developed. While the album consists of 35 tracks, it is, in essence, a single cohesive composition. This modern work draws inspiration from traditional Iranian music, particularly the radif system, and reinterprets it through a contemporary lens.

Each track is named after a specific gushé (mode) of Iranian music. Some pieces directly reflect the melodic characteristics of their corresponding gushé, others are connected rhythmically, and some are conceptually inspired by the original modal structures. The album is a journey through the intersections of tradition and innovation, offering listeners a fresh perspective on the expressive possibilities of the setar.”

Darāmad-e-avval

Need

Niaz

Parvaneh Zakhmi

Theme music for the 3rd series of data journalism awards by D-Mag https://d-award.ir/
Inspired by the microtonal Bayat-e Esfahan scale from Iranian music

Music for D-Award 2025

Darāmad-e-dovvom

Farhad’s “Marde Tanha” gave voice to a restless generation, echoing through Behrouz Vossoughi’s most iconic outsider role alongside Fariba Khatami's grounded powerful performance. Reza Motori (1970), a story of love, rebellion, and self-destruction, remains one of Masoud Kimiai’s most enduring works.

🎥 Reza Motori (Reza The Motorcyclist)
Directed by: Masoud Kimiai مسعود کیمیایی

🎵 'Mard-e Tanha'
Perfomed by: Farhad Mehrad فرهاد مهراد
Composed by: Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh اسفندیار منفردزاده
Lyrics: Shahyar Ghanbari شهیار قنبری

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Farhad: Mard-e Tanha [Original Version] (🎥 Reza Motori, 1970) فرهاد - مرد تنها (اجرای اصلی)

One of the most avant-garde recordings in Iranian music history, from Mostafa Javidan (b. Kermanshah, 1946-2017), real name Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi (also known as Darvish Javidan). As a mystical figure in Iranian music and cinema, Javidan continued his activity on the sidelines, often crucified and ridiculed in popular media, as seen in the 1977 Caricature magazine featured in this video. While most of his discography was either religious or 'koocheh-bazari', "Faryade Maslool" stands out as a wild outlier with its funky rhythms, and morbid lyricism, likely a cover of "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band.

Unconfirmed sources state that due to his religious activities in the late 60s, he was forced to flee Tehran, undergoing plastic surgery and growing out his hair, taking on a new identity as a Dervish. Whether this is true or not only adds to the mystery.

‎یکی از آوانگاردترین آهنگ های تاریخ موسیقی ایران، از مصطفی جاویدان (متولد کرمانشاه، ۱۳۲۵، درگذشته ۱۳۹۶)، با نام اصلی سید مصطفی موسوی، که با عنوان درویش جاویدان هم شناخته می‌شد. جاویدان به عنوان چهره‌ای رمزآلود در موسیقی و سینمای ایران، فعالیت‌های خود را در حاشیه ادامه داد و در رسانه‌های عامه‌پسند بارها به تمسخر کشیده شد، نمونه‌اش جلد مجله کاریکاتور در سال ۱۳۵۶ که در این ویدیو دیده می‌شود
‎با اینکه بخش عمده‌ای از آثار او مذهبی یا کوچه‌بازاری بود، «فریاد مسلول» یک استثنای کامل است که در زمان خود در موسیقی ایران مشابهی نداشت.
‎گزارش‌های غیررسمی می‌گویند او به دلیل فعالیت‌های مذهبی‌اش در اواخر دهه چهل ناچار شد تهران را ترک کند و پس از جراحی پلاستیک و بلند کردن موهایش با هویت تازه‌ای در قالب یک درویش به فعالیتش ادامه داد.

🎤 Intro Voice Actor: Mahdad S.
📖 Caricature magazine # 445, Oct 30, 1977
🎥 Intro to this video uses AI image to video generation to animate scanned images from aforementioned magazine.

🎵 Faryade Maslool فریاد مسلول
Performed and Composed by Mostafa Javidan
Lyrics by Adabi
Additional Instrumentation: Foroughi Kermani فروغی کرمانی

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Mostafa Javidan - Faryade Maslool (Dennis Coffey: Scorpio "Farsi Cover") مصطفی جاویدان - فریاد مسلول

A quiet instrumental about distance, memory, and the air between hearts.  
قطعه‌ای آرام درباره فاصله، خاطره و هوایی که میان دل‌هاست



For those who wish to hold the quiet a little longer:
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Persian Air — هوای پارسی

Inspired by the Bayat-e Esfahan microtonal mode from classical Persian music

Paced

Stellar - Ey Iran (Remake)

Rahe Bi Bargasht (The Odyssey of No Return) is a reflective journey through elevation, the craving for liberation, the chaotic path of becoming and explorations, created by Iranian artists Atisa and Azad Jamshidof.
The album is a dialogue between sound and poetry where the flow represents a conflict with ethics, desires, essence and existence. Each track captures a moment of transformation inspired by the poetry of Iranian modernism, Eastern melodies, Western harmony and world culture.
This album is for those who crave new horizons in music.

Rahe Bi Bargasht

To ra Khaham

Faryade Moshtarak

To Khod Ouyi

YE AHANGE SEXY

A Sexy Persian song for all my sexy peeps.



YE AHANGE SEXY

Sousan — Reimagined by Milan AI Project
سه بازخوانی تازه از صدا و جهان احساسی سوسن

در این مجموعه سه ترانهٔ مشهور سوسن را بازآفرینی کرده‌ام؛ نه برای زنده‌کردن گذشته، بلکه برای گفت‌وگو با میراثِ موسیقایی او. صدا و جهان احساسی سوسن بخشی از حافظهٔ جمعی ماست، و این پروژه تلاشی است برای شنیدن همان احساسات، اما در قاب صدا و زیبایی‌شناسی امروز.
این نسخه‌ها تلفیقی‌اند از امبینتِ تاریک، الکترونیک مینیمال و آینده‌گراییِ نوستالژیک—جایی میان یاد و امکان.
هوش مصنوعی در این پروژه نقش ابزار دارد، نه مؤلف؛ تمام جهت‌گیری، انتخاب‌ها و منطق احساسی انسانی است.
 Milan AI Project می‌کوشد جانِ ترانه‌ها را حفظ کند و معماری صوتی تازه‌ای برای آنها بسازد.

Tracklist
00:00 Intro
00:20 Safar
04:35 Dooset Daram
09:35 Khodam Kardam Ke Lanat Bar Khodam Bad

Created by Mehran Solati-Hashjin (Milan AI Project)
A dialogue between lived experience and algorithmic sound.

سوسن: بازآفرینی با هوش مصنوعی

A in-depth talk about Nava AI, a virtual Iranian singer made by artist Farbod Mehr."  The episode talks about how Nava's AI-generated voice and graphics are made, her collaborations like "Hamoomi" with Mehrad Hidden, and how she reimagines Persian folk music for the digital age.  The hosts talk about ethics, authorship, and what AI artists like Nava mean for cultural legacy, resistance, and the future of music.

Nava AI: Art Between Human and Machine​

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Bio
Mehran Solati-Hashjin is a poet, songwriter, and digital-media artist whose work moves along the border where lived experience meets algorithmic worlds. Writing and composing under the artistic identity Milan AI Project, he creates conceptual pieces that weave poetry, philosophy, and experimental sound into a singular narrative voice.
His engagement with art began long before his academic career. As a young engineering student, he wrote poetry, essays, and early online journals—work that shaped the introspective and analytical tone that defines his writing today. Later, after decades of research in biomedical and materials engineering, he did not abandon science for art; instead, he brought the structural clarity of his scientific training into his creative practice.
With the rise of modern AI tools, he found a medium that allowed these two long-standing threads—scientific precision and artistic intuition—to finally converge.
In Mehran Media Studio, he develops works that treat algorithms not as replacements for human creativity but as collaborators: instruments that extend what a human voice, a human question, or a human memory can become.

Ambient music shaped by light, breath, and quiet emotion.
Soundtracks for healing, reflection, and the calm after a long night.

I Love Making Tunes By A.I, Most Of Things I Create Are In Iranian Traditional Vibe And Atmosphere 

Please listen to my playlist “Fingerprint Daily “ each day I’ll put a new track in it until the end. 

Music producer 
🎶 Ata Emadi: Musician, Innovator, and Author
Early Musical Start: Began learning the Setar at age 12.

Orchestral Career: Became a member of the Tehran Modern Orchestra in 1998 at age 15.

Higher Education: Accepted into the Music Department of Tehran Art University after high school.

Author: Wrote the first Persian book on mastering the Persian language.

Musical Innovation: Invented and performed a kind of 3D (10.2 surround) music at age 30.

Discography: Has produced a plethora of songs and three full albums over two decades, but has never released them until now.
Music producer 
🎶 Ata Emadi: Musician, Innovator, and Author
Early Musical Start: Began learning the Setar at age 12.

Orchestral Career: Became a member of the Tehran Modern Orchestra in 1998 at age 15.

Higher Education: Accepted into the Music Department of Tehran Art University after high school.

Author: Wrote the first Persian book on mastering the Persian language.

Musical Innovation: Invented and performed a kind of 3D (10.2 surround) music at age 30.

Discography: Has produced a plethora of songs and three full albums over two decades, but has never released them until now.
Tehran Art University lecturer 2023 until now.
Solo Album: Began working on his solo Setar album, “Fingerprint,” in 2022, performed it between 2023–2024, and it is scheduled for release in January 2026.

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