"Silent City" [City of Silence] and "The Rain" is tow are two of his works which I like them very much.

Kayhan Kalhor (1963) is Iranian Song writer.  , His main instrument is the Kamancheh player as main and with the sitar as the second musical instument. Two of his works was were nominated for the Grammy [Awards] in 2004.

'Silent City' is one of his works with that the "Brooklyn Rider" band performed. Songlines magazine which is one of a famous musical magazines in the worlds [you should not elaborate to say that it is famous, if you do, it implies that it is not famous.  You didn't elaborate on the Grammys.  Did you? :) ] choosed 'Silent  City' as the greatest best album in for 2008.  He mentioned in the cover of this work he mentioned album the reason of in choosing this title.  name for his work It was due to the chemical bombardment warefare that happened in Halabche in western Iran during the war between Iraq and Iran Iraq-Iran War. which happened in Halabche is one of the western cities in Iran. You can listen to this hear the piece in the given music by clicking on the links comes here below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkk7cbGdOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWX3VLnoH_s

'The Rain' is another one of his works which he composed and perfromed with Indian Sitar player, Shujaat Husain Khan, and Indian tabla player, Swapan Chaudhuri. Also This work piece was nominated in 2004 for the Grammys. Award and you can find this music in the You Tube link comes here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeKp004jvFo

He had a joint performance with Yo-Yo Ma in the 'Silk Road Project".  He  and he also made 'The Wind' with the Turkish Baglama (musical instument) musician Erdal Erzincan, a Turkish Baglama player musician.


Many of his works is are based on Traditional Kurdish and Persian music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k6ufEVxejI&feature=related

To know more about Kayhan Kalhor, see please look at this Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayhan_Kalhor

Thanks for the links!