Placeless, Kronos’ first collaboration with Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, was released by Kirkelig Kulturverksted today and is now available to stream and download through Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and other platforms. Listen now >

CDs will be available after April 26 and may be preordered in North and South America through Valley Entertainment at the link above. For European orders, please go here.

Placeless features 14 songs composed by Mahsa Vahdat to classical poems by Hafez and Rumi and the works of contemporary Iranian poets Forough Farrokhzad, Mohammad Ibrahim Jafari and Vahdat’s husband Atabak Elyasi. Composers Sahba Aminikia, Aftab Darvishi, Jacob Garchik and Elyasi arranged the songs for string quartet. The album is produced by KKV’s founder Erik Hillestad.