Over the past years, Banu Parsi has pioneered a new genre within Iranian music that she calls Shafahang — Persian medicine music.

Inspired by the transformative role that music plays in ceremonial and healing traditions around the world, Banu felt there was no equivalent within the Persian language and cultural landscape. While Persian spiritual music has long been represented through Sufi traditions and classical poetry, Shafahang offers a new expression created specifically for contemporary ceremonial, healing and transformational spaces.
 

Unlike traditional Sufi music, the lyrics are not based on historical mystical poetry. Most songs are original compositions written by Banu herself, while some are adaptations of well-known medicine songs and indigenous icaros from Peru and Brazil, translated from Spanish and Portuguese into Persian.

The vision behind Shafahang is simple: music becomes more powerful when it is experienced in one's own mother tongue. During ceremonies, people can more easily connect to the meaning of the words, sing along together, and allow the messages to reach deeper layers of the heart and psyche.
 

The songs often use simple, mantra-like structures that invite participation and collective singing. Although entirely contemporary in form and language, many of the compositions carry an ancient atmosphere that echoes the spirit of Persian devotional traditions and the sacred hymns attributed to Zarathustra. In this way, Shafahang serves as a bridge between ancient remembrance and modern ceremonial practice.