RAAZ

Tehran based Hooshar Khayam and Bamdad Afshar have joined together in a pioneering project to embed lines of traditional tunes from Baluchistan in their musical journey. They believe that "Iranian folk music has the potential to feature directly in various genres of contemporary music."Khayam and Afshar have developed a creative way to include Baluchi tunes and modal structures in contemporary classical music. Bamdad Afshar, already known for his unique electronic music compositions and his output for cinema and theatre, teamed up with classical trained Khayam to create a new electronic rendition of Baluchi rhythms, augmented by a string quartet and piano recordings of Khayam, plus vocal recordings of three Baluchi singers (two male, one female). The result is a mesmerizing album which draws on a mixed medium of sounds with a full spectrum of colouristic effects, previously unheard or unimagined. BackgroundOver the last 50 years, Iranian ethnomusicologists, musicians and enthusiasts have recorded Iranian folk music and documented the culture which surrounds it. Mohammad Taghi Masoudieh, Fouzieh Majd and Hormuz Farhat are pioneers who have carried out significant research into the folk music of Iran. These musicians had a specific focus on Baluchistan music in terms of recording for the purposes of documentation, yet barely focussed on any direct form of composition based on such recordings. This applies to two of the most important ethnomusicologists of Irans music: Bruno Nettl (b. 1930, Czechoslovakia) and Jean During (b.1947, France) both of whom contributed outstanding work in the field of Irans provincial music.The second generation of Iranian ethnomusicologists continued along the same path. They also recorded Iranian folk music, providing musical notation and documenting rituals and ceremonies.Despite all attempts to preserve folk musical traditions and to save time-honoured rituals and ceremonies from being lost, they have largely remained undiscovered by the professional folk music.

1: Ye'k
2: Do
3: Say
4: Char
5: Pa'nj
6: Sha'sh
7: Ha'pt
8: Ha'sht
9: Noh
10: RAZZ
11: Anthology

Number of Discs: 1

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