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a r t i s t :: Mahsa Vahdat
t i t l e :: Traces Of An Old Vineyard
d a t e :: 2015-00-00
l a b e l :: Kirkelig Kulturverksted
g e n r e :: Ethnic
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 592 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V
t r a c k s :: 12
p l a y t i m e :: 56:50
s i z e :: 243.4MB
tracklist
1 Vanishing Lines 4:21
2 My Ruthless Companion 4:01
3 Sleepless Eyes 6:09
4 Wind In Tresses 5:26
5 Pledge With The Jar 4:30
6 Beauty On The Run 5:04
7 Morning Sun Of Hope 3:08
8 Kissing The Wine Jug 4:24
9 The Flower's Garment 3:57
10 Once Again Beside Myself 6:06
11 Fire In The Heart 4:46
12 Dialogue With The Beloved 4:58
releasenotes
The Magazine öSonglinesö proclaims Mahsa VahdatÆs album öTraces of an Old
Vineyardö as one of the 10 best albums of the year 2015.
The record was released by Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) in January.
öSonglinesö is a leading, British publication within the genre öworld musicö.
The news will be fully presented in the December edition of the magazine.
The album contains MahsaÆs own melodies to poems by the classical Persian
poets Khayyam, Hafez and Rumi. Tord Gustavsen is her arranger and pianist, and
the other musicians accompanying her are Shervin Mohajer (kamancheh) and Ali
Rahimi (percussion). The poems on the record express a big variety of the many
aspects of life and love: Devotion, desire, ecstasy, tensions,
disappointments, sorrows. The musical idea of the album is to develop the
beauty in Persian poetry and the vocal tradition within the framework of a
playful meeting between Iranian contemporary instrumental music and a jazz
pianist. The recording was done in Jakob Culture Church in Oslo in September
2014 by the sound engineer Martin Abrahamsen and the producer Erik Hillestad.
The album was released internationally from the end of January 2015.
Mahsa Vahdat is a singer who develops the rich Persian vocal tradition. She
brings about both Persian, classical poetry (Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, Khayyam) and
the contemporary one. She has a long career as recording artist on the
Norwegian label KKV including collaborations with Knut Reiersrud, the mixed
choir SKRUK, Mighty Sam McClain and most of all with her sister Marjan Vahdat.
öTraces of an Old Vineyardö is the first record in which she appears under her
own name only.
Together with Marjan Vahdat and other collaborators, Mahsa has done an
international career with concerts in many countries in Europe, Asia and
America. She will participate in many festivals in Europe, Australia and New
Zealand during the coming spring. At the time she works with a new album with
no instruments (a cappella). In 2010 Mahsa received the ôFreemuse Awardö, and
in 2012 the Vahdat sisters were given the öIndependent Music Awardö for the
record öTwinklings of Hopeö. Last summer the web magazine öIranwireö presented
Mahsa on a list of the 50 most influential Iranian women through the last 200
years.
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