[1] Founded in 1991 by tar player Hamid Motabassem,[2] Dastan has performed concerts throughout the world.

Hamid Motebassem founded it with musicians Morteza Ayan, Mohammad Ali Kiani Nejad, Kayhan Kalhor, and Ardeschir Kamkar.

Since 2000, the current main members are Saeed Farajpouri, Hossein Behroozi-Nia, Pejman Hadadi, Behnam Samani.

Many Iranian artists contribute with recordings or concerts, such as Parisa, Homayoun Shadjarian, Sima Bina, Iraj Bastami, Bijan Kamkar or Shahram Nazeri.

In 2003, they received the award "Prix du disque" from the Académie Charles-Cros in the field of world music for their album Shoorideh.