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Music Teams



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



​"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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