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The first five years of my life were spent in Iran in a privileged musical setting. My father had moved to Tehran to learn traditional music, and from a very early age I developed a taste for music in the most natural way : surrounded by instruments and musicians, continually bathed in music, I soon realised that, more than a passion, music would be for me a way of life, as well as a language in its own right. After years of intensive practice of Persian drums and various oriental lutes, in parallel with my study of classical violin, I started learning the guitar in order to explore what had remained for me uncharted domains : those of afro-american musics... After years of practice I discovered Flamenco and was deeply involved in this music and his possibilities. At this point, I could not help feeling the need to integrate into them the vocabulary and grammar of traditional music with which I had grown and which constituted, so to speak, my mother tongue. That is why I have always entertained the idea of a musical journey which would take the form of a return to the roots of tradition. This musical journey, could be realised in two ways : a traditionnal approach and a more experimental one. The experimental one is the one I love to do with electronic and experimental musicians such as Joachim Montessuis, and through many soundtracks for TV or cinema. The traditionnal way is the one that gave birth to all my oriental bands and projects going from Andalusia to Central Asia, focusing recently on Turkish ottoman & gypsy music, driving me to Istanbul to give concerts with Göksel Baktagir and the Istanbul Sazendeleri.