MAHAN MIRARAB

guitarist . composer . producer

Mahan Mirarab is an Iranian-Austrian guitarist, composer and producer. His music brings together Persian musical traditions, contemporary jazz and improvisation through collaboration and cultural exchange.

"On Unspoken Mahan Mirarab unveils a unique sound palette, playing a double-necked instrument with both fretted and fretless fingerboards to mingle east and west on a fascinating mix of traditional themes and covers"

The Guardian / GB

"Mahan Mirarab's double-neck guitar symbolically represents both Iranian musical tradition and jazz. Unspoken is a moving album about closeness, inner conflict, and the beauty of two cultures."

3sat Kulturzeit / DE-AT-CH

"You can hear in Unspoken that Mahan Mirarab is telling the story of a complex journey — and every track on the album is its own musical, and at times melancholic, travel diary."

Rolling Stone / DE

An impressive debut: On Unspoken, influences from the musical art of Iran, European musical traditions, and jazz elements merge into a whole that has nothing to do with kitschy 'world music'."

Der Standard / AT