Maryam Rahmani - Kamand

1.Delbar 14:53
2.Encanto 03:23 
3.Anchor 06:06
4.The Corner (I) 05:30
5.The Corner (II) 05:54
6.Chahargah 05:55
7.Khayyam 03:52
8.The Lasso 03:59

KAMAND is an exploration of acculturation, the delicate and often dissonant process of merging into a host culture while honouring ancestral roots.

Across the album, Maryam navigates improvisation and identity through santur, voice and kamancheh, supported by an ensemble of boundary-pushing collaborators: Rosalie Cocchiaro (flamenco rhythm), David Moran (cello), Sebastian Collen (piano, electronics) and Gustavo Quintino (double bass).

Each track is grounded in the Persian classical repertoire or inspired by poetry, particularly the words of 13th and 14th century mystics, Saadi Shirazi and Hafez. Yet the album resists tradition-as-orthodoxy, instead reimagining ancient forms through experimental structures, spontaneous composition and cross-cultural conversation.

Maryam says on her debut album: “I think my first album shows how much I grabbed into my Iranian culture and how, at the same time, I am trying to integrate. Even music vice I don’t see it successful in making a new language, I think they are still two different languages “trying” to make connection to each other and have a mutual understanding.”

released August 22, 2025

Maryam Rahmani - santur, kamancheh, voice
with
Rosalie Cocchiaro - flamenco rhythm on 2 and 6
Sebastian Collen - piano and electronics on 1 and 7
David Moran - cello on 3, 4, 5 and 8
Gustavo Quintino - double bass on 3 and 8

Improvised by Maryam Rahmani and collaborators
Translated from classical Iranian repertoire and compositions

Recorded and mixed by Tom Spall at Milestone Records
Mastered by Jack Palmer
Made on Kaurna and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country

Cover Image by Kaspar Schmidt Mumm
Calligraphy by Sajjad Kashef
Layout by Rochelle Oh and Liz Luby