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ENTELECHY I   (Ariana Delawari Produced by Butchy Fuego) 

All Music Written and performed by : Ariana Delawari and Butchy Fuego 

All Lyrics by: Ariana Delawari 

Except for "Your Dream is My Dream" : Music by Butchy Fuego, lyrics by Ariana Delawari 

All songs produced and engineered by : Butchy Fuego at Top Cat International and mixed at Comp-ny

Ariana Delawari: vocals, keyboards, guitar

Butchy Fuego: keyboards, drum programming and sequencing 

Heather McIntosh: strings arranged and performed on songs : 1, 3, 4, and 9 

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: strings arranged and performed on songs : 2, 7, 8, and 11

 

ENTELECHY II  (Ariana Delawari Featuring Salar Nader) 

All music and lyrics written by : Ariana Delawari 

Except for "Your Dream is My Dream" : music by Butchy Fuego, lyrics by Ariana Delawari 

 Ariana Delawari : Vocals, guitar, and piano

Salar Nader : Arranged and performed Tabla, Djembe, Bayan, Bayan Bass, Tabla Tarang, Cajon, Frame Drum, Udu Drum, Dholak, Naal, and finger snaps 

Engineered by : Alec Dixon 

Mixed by :  Be Hussey at Comp-ny

 

Both albums Mastered by : Kevin Bartley at Capitol Records

Album Artwork by : Galen Pehrson 

Typography by : Bijan Berahimi 

Ariana Delawari: vocals, guitar and piano 

Ustad Mohammad Wali: Tabla 

Ustad Ghulam Hussain: Rabab 

Ustad Almruddin: Delrubah 

Max Guirand: guitar, harmonium 

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: string arrangements, violin and viola (on ‘Her Legacy’, ‘Be Gone Taliban’, and ‘We Lived on a Whim’) 

Paloma Udovic: violin 

Joachim Cooder: drums (on ‘Her Legacy’, ‘Be Gone Taliban’, ‘Sing Wind’. ‘The East’, ‘Don’t Fight The Love’, and ’Suspend Me’) 

Robert Francis; bass (on ‘Her Legacy’, ‘Don’t Fight The Love’, and ’Suspend Me’) , guitar and synth (on ‘Suspend Me’) 

Be Hussey: bass (on ‘San Francisco’)

Jabari Parker: drums (on ‘San Francisco’)

Danielle Ondarza: French Horn (on ‘We Lived on a Whim’)

Nick Rosen: upright bass (on ‘We Came Home’) 

Dean Hurley: Hammond organ (on ‘We Came Home’) 

 

All music written by Ariana Delawari except ‘Be Gone Taliban’ and ‘Don’t Fight the Love’ by Ariana Delawari and Max Guirand, ‘Laily Jan’ by Ahmad Zahir, ‘Cheshme Siah Daree’ by Ahmad Zahir with additional music by Ariana Delawari and Max Guirand, ‘Suspend Me’ by Ariana Delawari and Robert Francis. All lyrics by Ariana Delawari except ‘Laily Jan’ by Ahmad Zahir, and ‘Cheshme Siah Daree’ by Ahmad Zahir with additional English lyrics by Ariana Delawari

 

Produced by: Ariana Delawari, with Christo Anastasio, Carlos Nino and Max Guirand 

‘Suspend Me’ produced by David Lynch 

 

Engineering by: Christo Anastasio, Carlos Nino, Tom Kim, Max Guirand and Be Hussey 

 

Assistant Engineer: Max Waker 

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​"The achingly beautiful, soul-filled music that they create, recorded in Dari and English in the Delawari home in Kabul, transcends language. The collaboration is (nearly) effortless, and the scenes of them performing together are magical."

- The New York Times

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