A ‘beginning’ with a new and highly individual aesthetic is something which most certainly characterises the orchestral songs by Nader Mashayekhi. fié ma fié II and moulana are two works from a series of compositions, whereby each in itself constitutes an innovative song cycle, because the lyric, which is the basis of each of the compositions, is in several parts or is taken from the works of various poets.
Both works bring together two music cultures which, from a music-historical point of view, are distant and different: contemporary orchestral composition and traditional Iranian musical practice.
This creates simultaneity of asynchrony which in this form represents something completely new. The simultaneity of both cultures in a performance shows the historico-cultural asynchrony in a much clearer light.
Mohsen Mirmehdi
