Kayhan Kalhor, Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Night Silence Desert
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Artist: Kayhan Kalhor, Mohammad Reza ShajarianEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Music Label: Trad. Crossroads
Soundtracks:
- Silence of the Night
- Desert - Mohammed Reza Shajarian
- Instrument and Vocal [Poem by Baba Taher]
- Desert Night - Kayhan Kalhor,
- Rain [Lyrics]
- Festive Occasion
- Dotar Instrumental - Kayhan Kalhor,
- Setar [Instrumental] - Kayhan Kalhor,
- Instrument and Vocal
- Lover's Plight [Ghazal] - Mohammed Reza Shajarian
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Music Review: Iran Has Plenty to Offer...
Rating: 5 Stars
... besides threats and diatribes. Study its history and you'll soon realize that ancient Persia has almost as good a claim to be the "cradle of Western civilization" as Hellenic Greece. Iran has a 'deep' and continuous cultural tradition rivaled only by China. Persia was and Iran is, whether friend or foe, the pivot of the Middle East. Conquered in turn by Alexander and his Macedonians, by the Arab armies of Islam, and economically in modern times by the Anglo/American alliance, in the first two cases Iran/Persia was able to turn the tables and establish cultural equality with the Alexandrian Hellenes and cultural hegemony over the Arabs.
A part of Iran's great culture is a musical tradition of sophistication and variety, from the folk musicians of rural Khorastan to the 'classical' musicians of he royal courts and then the urban centers. Kayhan Kalhor is a contemporary musician/composer, a Kurd trained in the classical Persian tradition of 'radif', but dedicated to reinvigorating Iranian music by blending the rural folk and urban sophisticate. Kalhor's own instrument is the kamancheh, the so-called spike-fiddle. For this CD of his own compositions, Kalhor has recruited skilled players of most of the instruments of Iran - the dotar (long-necked lute), the ghoosmeh (double-reed flute), barbat (oud), santar (hammered dulcimer), nay (notch-blown flute), setar (sitar), tar (another plucked lute), and various drums. Even more boldly, he combines his own distinct compositional style with the singing of Khorasani Mohammed Reza Shajarian, the acclaimed master of the classical Persian vocal repertoire.
One of the hall marks of Persian music is its basic scale, featuring a 'flat' second. (Imagine a Western scale in which the DO is F-sharp and the RE is G-natural.) This flat second is subject to all kinds of bending and shading in microtones, and in fact microtonal intervals are what make Persian/Arabic music sound distinctive to western ears.
The moods of this performance flow subtly from suppressed passion to exuberance, with never a pause for any mere relaxation. The desert at night has certainly been a determining ambience in the history of Persia. I promise you'll hear it in the music of Kalhan Kalhor.
Description of Night Silence Desert
Kayhan Kalhor is the world's leading exponent of the kamancheh, an upright spike fiddle. Renowned for his work with Ghazal, a group that bridges Indian and Persian music, he applies a similar approach to Iranian folk and classical forms on Night Silence Desert. The Radif (Persian classical repertoire) grew from folk forms, but over the centuries the music evolved from its simple rural origins into an elaborately ornamented and rigorously structured style. This album doesn't take the music back to its basics--there's too much refined virtuosity on display. But the musicians infuse their playing with a vigor and crisp cohesion that belies the record's fitful production. First Kalhor convened 11 strummers, drummers, and flute blowers in Tehran in 1994 to lay down the sweeping instrumental passages. Four years later he and vocalist Shajarian finished the record in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The two men exchange intricate call-and-response melodies that radiate impassioned exhilaration. --Bill MeyerGeneral CDs
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