"Leyli"s garden desires my voice, I chanted for her blooming hope till the break of dawn I handed over her thirsty flowers to the moon and to the heart of Alborz" Marjan lives in exile in the USA, and there is little doubt that in several of her songs she expresses her deep longing for her native country, which has so many cultural treasures of poetry, music, pictures and textiles to offer, in addition to unique cultural landscapes and stories from a deep and rich cultural tradition. And of course, she also misses the people who live there - the people she grew up with, but now is prohibited from meeting. She is still always hopeful to some day in the future being able to return to her homeland. The songs are mostly about longing, and while they might appear to be love poetry, on some of the songs the listener can decide whether the longing is for a lover or the country of Iran, this garden among the nations of the world that has been left stranded by the world community due to geopolitical power struggles and the Islamic revolution in 1979. On the album you will hear, in addition to Marjan Vahdat (vocals), Bugge Wesseltoft (piano, accordion, keyboards), Jo Berger Myhre (double bass and electric bass), Kenneth Ekornes (drums and percussion), Shervin Mohajer (kamancheh) and Pasha Hanjani (ney flute). The album has been recorded in the USA, Iran and Norway, and had been mixed into a whole by Bugge Wesseltoft, with Martin Abrahamsen as sound technician.