Ali Akbar Moradi, Kayhan Kalhor - In the Mirror of the Sky
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Artist: Ali Akbar Moradi, Kayhan KalhorEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-06-08
Music Label: World Village USA
Soundtracks:
- Sar Aghaz (Introduction)
- Showgh (Joyful Anticipation)
- Maqam-E Gel-E Wa Darreh-Avaz (Brings Him Back Maqam-Vocal)
- Gol Wa Khuk-Mogadameh (Flower and Earth-Introduction)
- Maqam-E Gol Wa Khuk (Flower And Earth Maqam)
- Gel-E Wa Darreh-Foroud (Brings Him Back-Landing)
- Majnooni-Bedaah-E Bar Asaas-E Naghmeh Panj Zarbi
- Maqam-E Alwand-Avaz (Alwand Maqam-Vocal)
- Foroud (Landing)
- Choopi (Dance)
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Music Review: Among the best Persian classical albums
Rating: 5 Stars
Kayhan Kalhor (a member of Ghazal, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road project, Masters of Persian Music and many other solo and collaberative projects) is one of the finest Persian musicians, and really one of the best in the world. He plays the kemenche (spike fiddle), the ancestor to the violin, and his kemenche has a lighter, less rich, more piercing tone that sounds like rustling leaves. It accompanies and imitates the voice to great effect, but is also capable of breaking into high, lightning-fast and soulful improvisations.
Ali Akbar Moradi is probably less well known in the west but is equally good. Moradi's tanbur playing here (on a kind of metallic-stringed lute) is mesmerizing and capable of playing clear, snapshot melodies as well as evocative drones on his many strings, or both at once. The interesting liner notes reveal that playing the tanbur is incredibally difficult, and Ali Akbar Moradi does it like the master he is. His voice is powerful and echoes the unusual Kurdish modes and scales.
So, the two of them playing together is something amazing. It's a fusion, in a way, of Persian classical with Kurdish music (they both come from an Iranian Kurdish background, and Kayhan Kalhor, at least, is also a Persian classical musician (Ali Akbar Moradi may be as well). But more that, it's a fusion of two instruments, two styles, two masterful musicians, into glorious music.
The whole CD is, I think, one studio-recorded performance, as the tracks move into eachother without pause. The recording quality is crisp and flawless and especially accentuates the sound of the tanbur's strings, making them seem less harsh than on some recordings. The first track is an introduction, introducing you to the instruments and the notes, which quickly shifts into a fiery duet with no percussion but with the drone of Moradi's tanbur's strings and the stocatto thrusts of Kalhor's kemenche providing rhythm. (On a few tracks there's some tombak drum providing rhythm) By the third track Moradi's voice has entered the mix. Things quiet down as he sings the most soulful melodies. It would do well on a film soundtrack, but it just forces you to reflect on things, to think, and to feel the deep sense of longing or something.
Anyway, though it's not too helpful to say so, this is simply one of the best albums you can get. Fans of Persian or Iranian music should not miss this, and fans or Indian classical music or even jazz would definitely be able to understand this.
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