{"id":34803,"date":"2024-10-11T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=34803"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:42:40","slug":"aida-nosrat-of-atine-artist-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/aida-nosrat-of-atine-artist-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00efda Nosrat of Atine: Artist at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A\u00efda Nosrat is a multi-talented performing artist from Tehran who is making her way in the west, while supporting the women and freedom fighters in Iran. She spoke to TMR&#8217;s editor-in-chief during the 19th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalarabesques.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festival Arabesques<\/a>, in Montpellier.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Elgrably<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A\u00efda Nosrat and the other four members of her Atine quintet \u2014 Sogol Mirzaei on tar, Christine Zayed on qanun, Marie-Suzanne De Loye on viola da gamba, and Saghar Khadem on Persian percussions (tombak and daf) \u2014 are consummate players. They bring incredible energy and passion to a repertoire of original, poetry-influenced compositions. Atine left me nearly breathless when I had the pleasure of catching them at a recent concert at Montpellier\u2019s opera house, where they performed as featured artists in the 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> annual Festival Arabesques.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A\u00efda Nosrat is a Tehran-raised, Paris-based vocalist, composer and former violinist with the Tehran Symphonic Orchestra. She emigrated to France in 2015 with her then-husband, guitarist Babak Amir Mobasher, and they soon became fixtures at Paris\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citedesartsparis.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cit\u00e9 International des Arts<\/a>, and later, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aa-e.org\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atelier des Artistes en Exil<\/a>. Their joint album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manushan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (derived from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shahnameh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book of Kings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by classical poet Ferdowsi), was partially recorded in Tehran and Paris, and released in Europe and the US. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manushan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fuses Persian music with elements of jazz and flamenco.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-164934af511b1e8e4757470d1f8f67a3 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"A\u00efda &amp; Babak Quartet &quot;Manushan&quot; - Agar Ba\u0302ra\u0302n Beba\u0302rad\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/noXKgoQUnhQ?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nosrat\u2019s more recent recording is her breakout album with Atine, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accords-croises.com\/fr\/catalogue\/atine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persiennes d\u2019Iran<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It features songs and instrumentals influenced by Rumi (b. 1207), but also other classical Sufi poets such as Saadi (b. 1184) and Sheikh Bah<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0101\u02bei (b. 1547). The songs Atine presented in the Festival Arabesque were predominantly warm and imbued with color, melancholic here and there, yet unexpectedly energizing, which is not always the case with traditional Persian music. One sat up to listen even more intently during the solos by Saghar Khadem, Sogol Mizraei and especially Christine Zayed on qanun, who is the group\u2019s sole Arab musician. A Palestinian raised between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Zayed\u2019s innate relationship with microtones made her contribution to Atine seem effortless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the live encounter, one sensed A\u00efda Nosrat\u2019s soulful devotion to the music, and her contralto register lent a sort of atavistic authenticity to the songs, almost as if she could be singing them 1,000 years earlier, during the era of the Sufi poets she professes to love.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-cf754b8ec8b5288bd13b70a587eb042e ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"ATINE Ensemble Live From Paris performing &quot;Ey Tir&quot; for Farhang Performances\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lh7cLqAn2D0?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TMR Artist at Work Interview<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Why would a 40-something Iranian woman in 2024 be enamored with poets who were alive 500 to 1,000 years ago?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There are two aspects to this. The first is that poems from any of these Iranian poets, when they get translated, don&#8217;t transmit the essence of the poem, which when you read it in Persian, is something else. But &#8230; [then] you can translate it for yourself. When they speak about love, it&#8217;s a love that I know most people know, a love between humans, a kind of mystic love. I believe that humankind is so far away from that love, yet we long for it. And it is a mystic love, because when you dig deep, it has layers, and emotional levels, and the closest I can describe it is that mystic love is akin to the love between parents and their child, because parents never ask anything from their child. They just love them unconditionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My point of view is that mystic love, the love the universe has for us, gives and gives and gives, like the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that\u2019s why the sun is a symbol of love in Iranian mysticism, and in what we sometimes call the religion of love, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mehr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because the sun is always giving and not asking for anything in return. So this is one aspect, and the other aspect is that most of these poets were Sufi mystics. They reached a level of human consciousness and human love that they couldn&#8217;t transmit with normal words. So they started to write poetry, and that&#8217;s why, 800 to 1000 years after creating these poems, they are still new. They still have deep messages to convey to humanity, because we are not yet there. We are still so far from the level of consciousness they strived to attain. In my opinion, this is why [their words are] still new and still have so much to teach us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Another sort of innocent question is, why do you suppose Iranian culture, particularly in music and film, is often so melancholic, and sometimes sad?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you read Iranian history, Iran was under attack for most of our history because of the geographic situation in the middle of the Middle East. Iran is a crossroads, a way to reach the oceanways to the south for so many countries, like Russia. We were often under attack. I imagine this brings a certain amount of sadness, and it could be genetic. Also there is this feeling of separation that the poetry relates as well. Because in these mystic poems, beside love, there is also melancholy and sadness from the separation from the source, from the Creator. You know, cultural events in Iran &#8230; and the philosophy, the deep\u00a0 philosophy of Sufism and consciousness &#8230; happened over the centuries. So are we somehow melancholic people. It\u2019s also the story of being exiled, and it\u2019s not something new. I mean, Rumi himself was exiled from Iran because the situation was similar to the one we find ourselves in, different at that time, on the surface, but deep down, it was the same story, the same condition as today.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34820\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accords-croises.com\/fr\/catalogue\/atine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34820\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/persiennes-diran-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Atine's Persiennes d'Iran album.\" width=\"465\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/persiennes-diran-cover.jpg 465w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/persiennes-diran-cover-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accords-croises.com\/fr\/catalogue\/atine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Persiennes d&#8217;Iran<\/em><\/a> album.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>You\u2019ve said you\u2019re not sure about returning to Iran. Do you sometimes feel that you\u2019re an artist in exile?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can\u2019t go back.I don\u2019t know what [would] happen to me. In Iran, I was not political; I wasn\u2019t an obvious troublemaker. You know, with our album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manushan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we had to be discreet, we couldn\u2019t do any publicity or social media for it, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because I was afraid the secret police would call and iterrogate me \u2014 why are you singing? Why are you doing? &#8230; blah, blah, blah &#8230; which happened to many of my friends. I didn&#8217;t want to get involved in [protest at home] but at the same time, I realized that I couldn\u2019t build my career in Tehran, because it takes lots and lots of energy and effort and money to make an album. Then you cannot even do publicity for it, or have public concerts for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Now that you\u2019ve given up on a music career in Iran and you don\u2019t have to answer to the Iranian authorities about creating music or singing, do you feel free?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Yes. As soon as I got out of Iran, I started to free myself, and I haven&#8217;t stopped talking about the situation of women&#8230; I\u2019ve been active the last two years in the Woman Life Freedom revolution in Iran. When it started I was devastated. I mean it was so painful, the daily events were horrifying. I&#8217;m sure that it wasn&#8217;t just me, but all Iranians who are living in and outside of Iran. We were the same somehow, every morning. Waking up, the first thing I would do is grab my phone and see what was going on in Iran, crying, and would get ready to face my day. It was weird because you felt lots of emotional pressure; I had to put on a mask to deal with my life here. Many people in France, in Paris, didn&#8217;t even have a clue about what was going on in Iran. So, yes,\u00a0 it was very difficult and really painful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally, what I believe in is slow change. I don&#8217;t believe in sudden revolutionary changes, because sudden revolutionary changes will always be destructive, and we already experienced it 40 years ago with the revolution in Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-34803 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Atine-on-stage-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Atine-on-stage-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Atine-on-stage-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Atine-on-stage-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Atine-on-stage-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34825'>\n\t\t\t\tAtine performing at the Op\u00e9ra of Montpellier in the 19th annual Festival Arabeques (photo Luc Jennepin).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Opera-shot-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Opera-shot-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Opera-shot-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Opera-shot-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Opera-shot-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34822'>\n\t\t\t\tMontpellier&#8217;s Op\u00e9ra house (photo Luc Jennepin).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Saghar-Khadem-04-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Saghar-Khadem-04-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Saghar-Khadem-04-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Saghar-Khadem-04-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Saghar-Khadem-04-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34824'>\n\t\t\t\tIranian percussionist Saghar Khadem in Atine (photo Luc Jennepin).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Marie-Suzanne-and-Christine-Zayed-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Marie-Suzanne-and-Christine-Zayed-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Marie-Suzanne-and-Christine-Zayed-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Marie-Suzanne-and-Christine-Zayed-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Marie-Suzanne-and-Christine-Zayed-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34821'>\n\t\t\t\tMarie-Suzanne de Loye on gamba and Christine Zayed on qanun (photo Luc Jennepin).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/After-concert-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/After-concert-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/After-concert-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/After-concert-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/After-concert-Arabesques-Atine-2024-\u00a9Luc-Jennepin-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34823'>\n\t\t\t\tDe Loye, Zayed, Nosrat, Sogol Mirzaei and Saghar Khadem on stage after their Montpellier concert, which received a long standing ovation (photo Luc Jennepin).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>Can you talk a bit about your work on the album <\/b><b><i>From Kabul to Bamako<\/i><\/b><b>, that you did with Sowal Diabi?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I sang on that recording and I even composed a song, &#8220;Beshna as ne ek le nay,&#8221; derived from a very famous Rumi poem. If you listen to the whole album, \u201cKara Kara\u201d became the hit of the album, because the main team is from Mali. Mama Niketa, who I sang with, is a Malian singer. We mixed Malian music with Kurdish music and Afghan music. It was actually a big success here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are your hopes for Atine?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: I hope that we make another album. I really hope that this project continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did Christine Zayed, the Palestinian qanun player, get involved with your group? I ask because you don\u2019t often hear about Iranians and Arabs working together, playing together (although I know that musicians typically have no boundaries and there has always been a lot of crossover) \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It\u2019s interesting because many Iranians have this memory of what we learned about our history, and feelings about Arab countries and Arab people, because they attacked Iran 1400 years ago and imposed their religion on us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Because before that you were almost all Zoroastrians.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Exactly. And they forced Iranians to speak Arabic. If it weren\u2019t for Ferdowsi and this one king whose name I don&#8217;t remember \u2014 Ferdowsi kept the Persian language alive with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shahnameh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book of Kings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Without these two people, we would have lost our language \u2026 So [this wariness toward Arabs] is kind of carved into Iranian DNA, and collective memory, collective consciousness, but it happened long ago. That is a long time to keep the hatred inside yourself. But until I came to France and made Arab friends here, I never had Arab friends in Iran and I didn&#8217;t feel very good about Arab people. It was transmitted to me, generation by generation, from my father, from his father to him. Things changed for me when I visited Morocco, when I went to Tunisia, and found that we have so many things in common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you bring in Christine? Zayed?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Five years ago we performed in the Mawazine Festival in Morocco; our producer had a very good relationship with Morocco and this festival. He asked us if we wanted to participate. It was me and Sogol Mirzaei, the tar player. Sogol brought in Saghar Khadem, the percussionist, but we needed another instrument. And then Sogol somehow found Christine, who was living in Paris. The repertoire was absolutely 100% Persian traditional repertoire, mostly with rhythms which are suited for dancing. It was then and there that our producer proposed that we put together an all-women band, make a girl band &#8230; We said, why not? It was a very interesting proposal. And then we searched for Marie-Suzanne. We were looking for a cello player, actually. We tried with two cellists, and it wasn&#8217;t what we wanted. And then Sogol found Marie-Suzanne, and when we played with her, especially with the gamba which has these movable frets that also we have in Persian instruments, that enable us to change the mode, or change the microtones. Her viola has seven strings, so the bass and everything about it was absolutely great for our project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The last thing I wanted to ask you about is your background as a violinist. How did that evolve into the career you have now; do you primarily see yourself as a vocal artist?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I see myself as a free-spirited musician, and these are my tools. My voice is a tool. My violin also is a tool. I play piano as well, a little bit of mandolin, I play some guitar. My first instruments were flute, and recorder. I compose music as well. So these are my tools to express myself musically. Mostly, I&#8217;m more comfortable with my voice because I feel freer. I can do whatever I want. I mean, not necessarily in the type of music that you heard in Montpellier, because that\u2019s like classical music where you have to follow specific rules. But when I create my own music, it&#8217;s totally free. When I improvised during the Montpellier show, I improvised in the context of Iranian traditional music. But when I improvise for myself, for my music, it&#8217;s totally free. I use Iranian techniques, and I mix it with with jazz music, I mix it with flamenco. I mix all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How does one go from performing for seven years in the Tehran Symphonic Orchestra to being a free-spirited world music performer and composer? That seems like a leap.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A\u00efda Nosrat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: I don&#8217;t know. This is something inside me, my spirit is like this, even when I cook. I can cook perfectly traditional Iranian dishes, but I also improvise cooking, you know, different techniques \u2026 I align with different cultures. I&#8217;m like water, you know? Whenever I visit other countries, I mix with their culture. I would say I&#8217;m very much a resident of planet Earth. I mean, my heart is in Iran, of course, because I spent most of my life there. But at the same time, I wanted to see the world, see new people, experience new cultures, and exchange cultures with people. Music is very fluent; it\u2019s also like water. Music has no borders. It is itself a language. I feel like I can communicate with anyone, without any exchange of words with other musicians from totally other cultures and countries, just playing music together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With respect to my classical music background, I&#8217;m very grateful that I have this strong base and training in classical occidental music. When I was a child, I also trained using my voice in classical or traditional Iranian music. But I was always passionate about learning other cultures and other musical traditions. I grew up in a family in which my father listened all the time to these old songs from the \u201860s and \u201870s, and at the same time, Azeri traditional music, and some Iranian jazz music, as well as rock, the Beatles. My father is also an artist. He&#8217;s a painter. So I grew up in this atmosphere in Iran. It was a multicultural atmosphere. Even though we were in Iran and it was kind of difficult to have free interpretation with the outside world. 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