Nasser Rastegar-Nejad has been played on NTS in shows including Geologist Presents: The O'Brien System, featured first on 21 July 2020. Songs played include Abu Ata and Nooruz Dar Ghorbat (Segah).

Nasser Rastegar-Nejad (born in Rasht, Iran in 1939) was a poet, singer, and musician from Iran, began at an early age to write poetry. He became a student of Professor Ebrahim Sarkhosh, a famous musician from Iran. From him he learned the many complex scales of Persian music. At the age of seventeen he began composing songs for Professor Sarkhosh’s music, and, by twenty-one, his songs had become very popular. His compositions were frequently…