Amir Válá Meshkin is an architect, visual artist, singer, songwriter and producer residing in Australia. As an architect, he is most noted for the design and construction of a surrealistic residence in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia named Mel-Villa, which features the only 9 meter high periscope in a building in the Southern Hemisphere. This periscopic apparatus reflects an unobstructed view of the

Swan River (Western Australia) The Swan River () is a river in the south west of Western Australia. The river runs through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia's capital and largest city. Course of river The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth. ...

, as seen on the roof top of the residence, into the ground floor sitting area. He leads the electronic-rock-fusion collective ELVIRIA, featuring world-class instrumentalists and guest vocalists. The ELVIRIA sound combines electronica, rock n' roll, fusion and world music; electronic sound manipulation and beats, psychedelic electronic music compositions, contemporary dance music stanzas; rock anthems and instrumentation; spoken word and free-form poetry, pop-operatic moments, orchestral string, brass and woodwind arrangements; the musical chords, scales, styles and languages of the different cultures and places of the world, multilingual singing representing Indigenous, Medieval, Arabic, Persian and other-worldly cultures, Bel canto ballads, 24-part vocal harmonies and exotic instruments. ELVIRIA's debut album THE CITY OF SEARCH addresses the riddle of life and its oldest philosophical questions: "Where did we come from? Where are we going? And what's the role of humanity in the architecture of the universe?" THE CITY OF SEARCH addresses the riddle by adapting

The Seven Valleys ''The Seven Valleys'' ( fa, ''Haft-Vádí'') is a book written in Persian by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. ''The Seven Valleys'' follows the structure of the Persian poem ''The Conference of the Birds''. ''The Seven Vall ...

, a 19th-century poetic text elaborating on the age-honored tradition of the seven mystic stages encountered by individuals during their journey to divine consciousness. This is the first of a series of seven chronological albums, each set on a different continent and each exploring one of the spiritual stages described in

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