Kayhan Kalhor - Scattering Stars Like Dust
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Artist: Kayhan KalhorEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-09
Music Label: Trad. Crossroads
Soundtracks:
- Scattering Stars Like Dust (Introduction)
- Scattering Stars Like Dust (Improvisation)
- Scattering Stars Like Dust [Duet for Kamancheh and Tombak]
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Music Review: Musicians Scattered Like Stardust
Rating: 5 Stars
An amazing number of the most outstanding musicians in the 'classical' traditions of India, Pakistan, China, Bolivia, and the rest of the world are living and performing in the USA. Of course, politics and poverty drive them away from home, but to "our" cultural credit, appreciative audiences in the USA also draw them here while in their homelands western pop prevails. Kayhan Kalhor is one such musician, the greatest virtuoso of the Persian spiked fiddle, the kamancheh, living in... Berkeley, California.
The kamancheh is a long-necked fiddle with four strings, tuned with huge pegs from the term "spiked fiddle" comes. The sound box is small, about the size of a coconut. The picture of Kalhor shows him sitting on his knees with his kamancheh on a peg upright between his thighs. Very similar fiddles are found throughout China and south Asia. His colleague, Pejman Hadadi sits cross-legged, playing the tombak, a single ceramic drum struck with the fingers of both hands. Besides the picture, the accompanying booklet contains an ample description of the ideas and practices of Persian music, though a few of the claims of antiquity and influence should be taken with salt.
Kalhor's music is improvisational, based on modal structures and simple remembered fragments of melody. It doesn't sound the least like jazz but it has affinities in performance practice. There are only three tracks on this CD. In other words, Kalhor was "world enough and time" to develop his improvisations and communicate his musical ideas. That is as it should be; far too many "ethnographic" recordings are mere snippets of extended works. This is music which requires commitment from the listener as well as the performer - commitment of attention and empathy.
I imagine that the "thrilling" rhythms of the tombak will be easily appreciated by all, putting people in mind of Scheherazade. The komancheh has a snarly, complex tone that may take a while to ingratiate itself. But it's worth the effort; this is music of subtlety and vitality, even in exile.
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