Nāznīnay (‘O Beauty!), a bilingual song composed and produced by Matoori, with Nizami singing in Kashmiri and Iranian traditional vocalist Alireza Ghorbani in Farsi.
The music video has been shot by Iranian film-maker Afshin Hashemi in Tehran and Chicago. The audio and the music video are scheduled to be released on 27 July.Prof.
Munshi, who specializes in language documentation, with a special interest in the endangered musical traditions of South and Central Asia, is the linguistic adviser on the project.
She says Nāzninay is a story of love, loss and longing, built around and based on the lyrics of two songs: Nizami's Pur Mah (Full Moon) in Kashmiri and the late Iranian poet Fereydoon Moshiri's Beneshin Mara (Stay With Me) in Farsi.