Let’s bestow perpetuity to our diminutive enchantments in the majestic realm of eternal love, if we are meritorious, in order not to sacrifice the solitary, cold and destined soul for the monotony of every day life.

Art requires deep understanding which is satiated by genes, blood, breeding and nobility.

Naivete vanity and debauchery can obstruct understanding, thought, feeling and art. Alas! we, the inhabitants of this part of the earth, the east which is the cradle of light and meaning have sent our ancestors’ deep pondering to oblivion and have extolled native and foreign unintellectuals.

Sages have taught man that the highest pinnacles must rise from the deepest abysses. They have taught him to carefully observe the universe. Although he was feeble he saw pain and agony with the first glance and then learned that humanity agony is the most stinging pain. Today we would like to present the “Laudation” album which is teeming with music and ditties; although it has some immaturity, to all humans who sympathize with humanity over his agony.

Humans who are solitary and will remain solitary. This is painful. Maybe Sol’s music turn their sorrow into bliss. Undoubtedly there are a lot of lies among low people because being insignificant and seeing oneself significant leads to forgetting the truth which is a blasphemous loss. Man with his intelligent curiosity discovered the hypocritical happiness of the commonplace which is hidden behind the disguise of disintegrity and debauchery and money and amazedly asked himself why knowledge and nobility seem to be so rare; how the great thoughts get despised and pure emotions are deemed naive while only frustrations are allowed to thrive.

Instinctively, Man learned love but villains promoted superficiality. Man was supposed to ascend but ascension was not decently interpreted and now the opposite ends of the assumption continuum are lost. Shallow thinkers are busy teaching naivet whereas innocence is left alone.
Alas! conscience, the voice of the human instinct, is inaudible. Will is the basis of freedom because when there is a will, there is a way but those who are waiting for others to decide for them don’t have any will. And I am afraid lest we roll down toward the abyss; therefore it is vital that we learn well to abstain from scoundrels who are always aiming different instruments at our minds. Thus is our meaning of love and life. In “Laudation” we have taken purity, freedom and ascension as the epitome. Like the other previous albums we have once again rushed to welcome love with a bunch of ditties because all of them have emanated from love although “Laudation” is a bit different.

Love has taken you and me on an expedition and we have seen so many exotic lands. Our souls’ thirst for loving and being loved hasn’t been satiated. Although we have been accepted, voracity didn’t let the joy of friendship appear as it should.

How much I wish I addressed all humanity standing on the world’s zenith in order to elucidate it for everyone that love always needs self-sacrificing. Thus you and I spent not only our material wealth but also all our lives in the most humble way just with the hope of its acceptance but eventually we found out that this is also so tiny in the vastness of love’s blessings.

And now we present you with our love vivacity in the form of an album of love music’s lauding literature. You be the judge.

A collection which we lived with all its cells and metamorphosed ignorant of the earth in a space of the sky color.
Your ears be with your hearts; your souls be teeming with love’s jocundity and harmonious music.

(Translated from Persian to English by Maryam Tajik)

Bahman Mehabadi

Spring 2005