Prison Poems Set to Music

Danny Djalili
Marie-Claire Saindon
Bijan Khadem-Missagh/Dawn of the Light Collective
Lasse Thoresen
GEORGE BRANDON

Composer: Danny Djalili

Light of All Life

Music by Danny Djalili, Payam Beint, Marjan Ighani

Danny Djalili, guitar and vocals
Marjan Ighani, vocals
Oliver Mavaddat-Rhys, violin
Liam McKinnon, drums
Pedraum Agahi, santoor
Martin Pritchard, producer
Toby Sohrabian-Bailey (Lumae Audio), Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Lyrics adapted from "Light of All Life" in Prison Poems, Copyright © 2013 by Mahvash Sabet (George Ronald, Publisher, Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013), p. 87. Translation copyright © 2013 by B. Nakhjavani.

Composer: Marie-Claire Saindon

The Imaginary Garden

Music by Marie-Claire Saindon
Performed by Elektra
Isabel Diavolitsis, soloist


Lyrics adapted from "The Imaginary Garden" in Prison Poems, Copyright © 2013 by Mahvash Sabet (George Ronald, Publisher, Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013), p. 83. Translation copyright © 2013 by B. Nakhjavani.

Composer: Bijan Khadem-Missagh/Dawn of the Light Collective

FROM THE EVIN PRISON

Music by Bijan Khadem-Missagh, violin

Tina Zormandan, vocals & arrangement

Monika Lang, piano

Marina Waigl, santur

Thomas Lang, recording engineer

Lyrics copyright © 2024 by Mahvash Sabet

Composer: Lasse Thoresen

PRISON POEMS op. 53

Music by Lasse Thoresen

Flute: Maiken Mathiesen Schau

Reader: B. Nakhjavani

Choir: Oslo Domkor/Oslo Cathedral Choir

Conductor: Vivianne Sydnes

Sound design, mixing, recording: Mats Claesson

Elements of the music are excerpted from a prayer chant

by Fariba Kamalabadi

Lyrics adapted from Prison Poems, Copyright © 2013 by Mahvash Sabet (George Ronald, Publisher, Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013) Translation copyright © 2013 by B. Nakhjavani.

Composer: GEORGE BRANDON

From Tapestry of Voices, Volume 2, Navona Records, 2025

Scroll to “2 Dream Poems: No. 2, Hello Again.”

Music by George Brandon

Aliana de la Guardia, soprano

Maja Tremiszewska, pianist

Lyrics, Part Two adaptation: "Hello Again" in Prison Poems, Copyright © 2013 by Mahvash Sabet (George Ronald, Publisher, Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013). Translation copyright © 2013 by B. Nakhjavani.