From the album "The Sun will rise", Mahsa Vahdat a cappella. Recorded in various locations in Turkey, Spain, Norway, Poland and France.
Live from Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo. "Earth Earth! If this love strong and true is too heavy for you too heavy for you to carry, then a blue butterfly that quickly passed my lover's eye is more eternal than you."
Mahsa Vahdat was trained in classical Persian singing and regional folk music by master musicians in Iran. After Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, public female singing was banned. To this day, female singers can only perform for authorized women-only audiences or alongside a male voice, and can never perform solo in public. Mahsa Vahdat's repertoire is inspired by regional and traditional music from Iran infused with her unique and resilient artistic sensibility. Her song lyrics are mostly mystical and love poems by great Persian poets like Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi, who lived several centuries ago; as well as contemporary Iranian poetry speaking about Iranian society.
An active campaigner for human rights, Mahsa is an award-winning ambassador of Freemuse, an independent international organization advocating freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide. She has attracted considerable attention with her work on the record Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, and her new solo album The Sun Also Rises.