Mehrdad Asemani

Akhavan worked with Googoosh, Shohreh Solati, Nooshafarin, Sattar, Mahasti, Shahram Shabpareh, Leila Forouhar, Shahram Solati, Toka, Behzad, Farrokh Turkzadeh, Nahid, Sheila, Susan Roshan, Mansour, Fataneh, Saman, and Arman.

Akhavan has collaborated with famous songwriters such as Iraj Janati Atai, Masoud Amini, Mohammad Saleh Ala, Shahyar Ghanbari, Homayoun Houshiarnejad, Masoud Fardmanesh, Zoya Zakarian, and Jacqueline, and with composers such as Jahanbakhsh Pazooki, Siavash Ghomayshi, Hassan Shamaeizadeh, Manouchehr Cheshmazar, and Babak Bayat.

Akhavan's first collaboration with Googoosh was Q, Q Bang Bang, with a poem by Zoya Zakarian. It was arranged by Manouchehr Cheshmazar, and its total runtime was about 13 minutes long. This collaboration continued in the album Last News in 2003. Akhavan composed all the songs in this album (except "Pir Mashrekh"). The songs of this album were written by Shahyar Ghanbari and Zakarian, with arrangements by Akhavan, Andy J, and Manouchehr Cheshmazar, who performed the song Last News in two voices in this album. Googoosh appeared as a guest singer in Akhavan's snapshot album and performed three songs with Akhavan in two voices. Subsequently, Akhavan appeared in the next album of Googoosh, Akhavan's Manifest, as a composer and arranger with songs by Shahyar Ghanbari. He also performed the song of birth certificate in two voices with Googoosh; in 2008, after three years of silence, they jointly released the album Shab Speid.

Most of Akhavan's songs (after Googoosh) were performed by Shohreh Solati, including 14 songs, four of which are unreleased. One song, "Payam", had lyrics written by Masoud Fardmanesh and arranged by Manouchehr Cheshmazar. The song "Naamee", with music by Masoud Fardmanesh, was arranged by Amir Badakhsh. Akhavan was a singer of the two-voice song. Akhavan's collaboration with Shohreh was not limited to composing and singing; the two went around the world together to perform a tour in Europe and America.[13][14]

This collaboration was titled Gol Gandam, produced jointly with Sattar and Mahasti. Akhavan wrote the lyrics of all the songs in this album, as well as Alireza Meibodi, Homayoun Hoshiar Nejad, and Masoud Amini; Gol Gandam was arranged by Manouchehr Cheshmazar, Schubert. Avakian and Saeed Ghorbani, published in 1998, had Mahasti and Sattar perform a two-part song called "Booye Noon, Booye Khak, and Booye Gandom".[15][16]

This album was recorded underground in Iran and released in Los Angeles.[17][18][19][20]