Night Silence Desert

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
This CD features two of the most important figures in classical Persian music. A groundbreaking collaboration between Irans legendary vocalist M.R. Shajarian and acclaimed composer and kamancha player Kayhan Kalhor. Featuring a large ensemble of Persian classical musicians from Tehran together with master folk musicians from the northeastern region of Khorasan, Kalhors Night Silence Desert bridges Irans musical generations, folk and classical styles, ancient and modern musical modes. Includes notes by Kalhor and translations of poems sung by Shajarian. The CD NIGHT SILENCE DESERT is the best selling title in the Traditional Crossroads catalog. When it was released, it won the NARM Award for BEST WORLD MUSIC CD OF THE YEAR and was nominated for a GRAMMY. Tracks: Silence Of The Night / Desert / Instrument And Vocal / Desert Night / Rain / Festive Occasion / Dotar Solo / Setar Solo / Ghazal / Lover's Plight

REVIEW
Kayhan Kalhor, master of the kamancheh (the bowed four-string precursor to most Asian and European bowed instruments) and setar (four-string long-necked lute), composed Night Silence Desert as a contemporary experimental suite fusing Iranian folk and classical traditions. Kalhor's compositional approach explores the kinship between Persian classical forms and the folk genres of Northern Khorasan and its Central Asian analogues. Khorasan folk tunes modulate around a tonic or primary note that anchors a given scale and orients instrumental and vocal improvisation in a fluid modal system. Kalhor here recruits the world-class heritage bearer of Persian art-music singing, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, a Khorasan native of extraordinary vocal prescience, along with expert classical and folk musicians. The latter play instruments particular to Khorasan, including the dotar (two-string plucked lute) and ghooshmeh (double-reed flute). Kalhor is entirely at home with modern studio technology as well, and is not averse to using digital sampling to enhance the effects he seeks. This is a scintillating, meditative recording, exceptional in both artistic and technical terms. -Michael Stone --

Number of Discs: 1

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