Behrooz Mihankhah - Piano (composer/arranger)
Mohammad Sahraei - Taar
Andrew Jackson - trombone
Charles Urich - drums
Pat Healy - Guitar
John Janigan-Mills - Bass
Pouya Shekarriz - Tombak
Andrew Mackelvie - Saxophone
Emery Van de Weil - Flute

Composed, Arranged and Produced by Behrooz Mihankhah
Co-produced by Dario Lozano-Thornton & John Janigan-Mills
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dario Lozano-Thornton
Assistant recording engineer Jim Legere
Photography by Dario Lozano-Thornton
Album Art and Design by India Gailey
Featured Art by Mohammad Bozorgi (The Route of Creation, 2015, acrylic on canvas)

This album was recorded at the Music Room in K'jipuktuk in Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

Inspired by his migrations through Iran, India and finally to Canada, Behrooz Mihankhah’s Lydium takes impressionist and jazz compositions and presents them in an Iranian instrumental context. This collection of original and pre-existing pieces fuses musical traditions of the past with contemporary concepts of composition and improvisation.

"لیدیوم" بهروز میهن خواه با الهام از آموخته ها ی مهاجرت پرفراز و نشیبش از ایران به هندوستان و در نهایت به کانادا ساخته شده است. تجربیاتی که سرانجام رویای سیاره بدون مرز را برای همیشه در دلش نشاند.
بهروز میهن خواه در این مجموعه با استفاده از قطعات اصلی و با هم آمیزی برخی از قطعات موسیقی امپرسیونیستی و جاز , در پس زمینه موسیقی سرزمین مادری اش ، سنت های موسیقایی گذشته را با مفاهیم معاصر آهنگسازی و بداهه نوازی مدرن در هم می آمیزد .
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“I would like to personally thank the musicians involved in this project, the production crew, my teachers, my family and my mentors, along with the generations of musicians and composers from around the world who have inspired my work. Special thanks to FACTOR, Music Nova Scotia and Hughie Langin Foundation, who’s support made the creation and production of this album possible.” - Behrooz Mihankhah