Rostam - American StoriesRostams third album, American Stories, arrives May 15, his first new music in over five years. The Iranian American artist and acclaimed producer returns with a record that explores his life across dual cultural worlds. The music weaves together elements of Americana and Persian traditions, blending fingerpicked guitars, pedal steel, and strummed chords with microtonal Persian melodies. That marriage of east and west felt like music that I needed to

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