After three long years of producing, recording, performing, editing, producing and recording again, editing, fighting, and crying, we are super excited to announce the release of our song Durme Durme. Stay tuned! Here is us in the studio btw. #newmusic #ambient 📸 @tavimanz
Blew the dust off a video from a while ago, Spring 2023 – one of the most challenging tunes we’ve ever performed live, Atmaca by Laço Tayfa, with our beloved Berklee Middle Eastern Fusion Ensemble… what a lineup we had. Miss playing with these guys every day ❤️ Big thanks to @vera.arnot for capturing this unforgettable recital, and to @amirmankovski for the awesome mix. Full video on YouTube (link in bio/story) #berklee #middleeastern #turkish #folk #fusion
A small collection of memories from @silkroadproject Global Musicians Workshop 🎵🌎
It’s been an amazing week filled with beautiful and talented people that I hope to cross paths with many more times!
On top everything - I’ve gotten to experience all of it with my love @mahyahums ❤️
There aren’t many things in this world that compare to watching her shine and do her thing ✨
1. Jamey Haddad’s ensemble
2. Ara Dinkjian’s ensemble
3. Snakes and Pandas at the Chinese embassy reception
4. Making music with Mahya
5. That point in the night
6. Practicing that percussion fill!
7. BALLA’S PARTY
8. @aradinkjianofficial making me cry
9. Some trills at the Turkish jam
10. Chief philosopher @stefanos.af sharing our shared pearl of wisdom
Great session today at #AudioConfidential @audioconfidential with Luis Accorsi’s @titolembi band #ToxicTito @toxictitonyc doing vocal and sax overdubs with #AmirMankvski @amirmankovski on sax and #DaveNagler @davidnagler on vocals for the new Toxic Tito EP coming out this fall.
Over the weekend I’ve had the pleasure of helping out in a rehearsal for The Witcher In Concert - after which I got to hang out for the rest of the production and shadow the great @marcurselli as he was working his magic for the live sound!
As an added bonus I got to see my girl @mahyahums take the stage and astound everyone with her beautifully powerful voice and percussion skills.
I swelled up with pride and was honored to have the chance to be there with her and support her throughout this whole experience ❤️❤️❤️
Being welcomed into a production like that and meeting all these new amazing people and friends was such an amazing experience and I’m looking forward to a future filled with many more events like this 🙌🏻
This whole event was made possible by @cdprojektred for creating this beautiful game, @blackinkpresents for the on point production, and @percivalwhl for the AMAZING soundtrack.
I live in NY now, it’s been hectic and strange and cool and hard and awesome.
I found a few seconds to breath so I thought I’d post some things and stuff from the past couple of months, most of them with the lovely @mahyahums who I’m so grateful and glad to have in my life ❤️
Kakhe Goman | کاخ گمان
امیدوارم این قطعه در گوشهای از زندگیتون نجوا بگیره 🌒
I’m so grateful for this amazing team. Each and every one of them poured their art into this and made my vision could come to life! How lucky could one be? ❤️
Poem by: Fereidoun Tavallali
Composition, voice, piano, cover art: Mahya Hamedi
Producer: Amir Mankovski
Recording & mixing engineer: Amir Mankovski @amirmankovski
Assistant engineer: Henry McKenzie @hamcutler
Mastering engineer: Jonathan Wyner @jonathan_wyner
Trumpet: Andrea Cui @cyhlalala
Tenor Saxophone: Shahar Amdor @amdor_shahar
E.guitar: Jakov Naumoski @naumoskijakov
E.bass: Ferran Rico @ferran_rico
Drums: Artur Ponsà @tuurpo__
تک تک عزیزانی که بالا نام بردن توی شکل گرفتن این موزیک نقش بزرگی داشتن. اول از همه ممنون از امیر مانکوفسکی عزیزم برای انرژی و زمان بیدریغی که توی این پروژه گذاشت، که اگر بخاطر اون نبود کاخ گمان الان توی پستویی خاک خورده بود.
و تمام موزیسینهایی که به زیباترین نحو اجرا کردن و ایدهپردازی کردن! ویدیوهای بیشتری از پشت صحنه براتون پخش میکنم.
دوستتون دارم و ارادتمند همهتون 🌞🍃
#Contemporaryjazz #femalevocalist #contemporarypersian #persianmusic #singersongwriter #music #jazz #saxophone #vocals
This semester was ROUGH (to put it mildly), lots of light and darkness all mixed and intertwined to a point where the world does and doesn't makes sense all at once.
So I felt like putting some snaps up from certain moments and to thank the special people (you know who you are ❤️) that surrounded and supported me throughout. LOVE YOU ALL!
Till the next one :)
Some pics by
@vera.arnot@muise.matthew@davegreenphoto
