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Artist.....: Hossein Alizadeh & Jivan Gasparyan
Album......: Endless Vision
Type.......: Album
Genre......: Ethnic
Style......: Persian and Armenian
Label......: World Village
CatalogNr..: 468047
Url........: http://www.worldvillagemusic.com/
Rel.date...: 31.07.2007
Str.date...: 00.00.2005
Source.....: CDDA
Grabber....: EAC 0.95 beta 3
Encoder....: Lame 3.97 -V 2 --vbr-new
Quality....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 1
Size.......: 76.47 MB
Length.....: 60:32
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Tracklist
01. Birds 22:20
02. Armenian Romances 03:07
03. Sari Galin 07:40
04. Call of the Birds 08:18
05. Mama 05:56
06. Improvisation on Shurangiz 05:58
07. Tasnif Parvaneh Sho ... 07:13
Total Time: 60:32
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Release Notes
This meeting of two musical masters in Tehran in the summer of 2003 was
played out in front of an audience of 12,000. Armenian duduk (a cylindrical
wooden flute that is often referred to as an Armenian oboe) maestro Djivan
Gasparyan and Persian shurangiz (a new Iranian six-string lute) wizard Hossein
Alizâdeh were backed on this occasion by Iran's Hamavayan Ensemble, and two
other duduk players -- Armen Ghzaryan and Vazgen Markaryan (bass duduk) -- in
a program of traditional Persian and Armenian songs. The first selection,
"Birds," begins with shurangiz, hand drums, and spare duduk melodies, as two
voices -- male and female -- begin to moan and then sing the poetry of Mahmoud
Moshref Azad Tehrani, the most famous and controversial of Persian poets (Azad
died in 2006). The Ensemble has made this a standard part of their repertoire
for a number of years, and its embellishment by Gasparyan adds depth and
dimension of the sung voices, underscoring their sad, deeply moving quality.
The "Armenian Romances" are improvisations in dastgah. The dastgah: Shur is an
eight-note scale which also has a group of melodies assigned to it called
"gushes" which are usually made up of four or five tones. Basically, this is
the designated term for improvisation in a Radif, or mode. The group plays the
traditional Azerbaijan folk song "Sari Galin," ("The Yellow Bride"); the quiet
dignity of the tune is sung in duet and spins itself out slowly and
purposefully. "Call of the Birds," is an instrumental with the band and
Gasparyan accenting the rhythmic cadences. Gasparyan's own poetry is heard on
"Mama," with the other duduk players preparing the ground for him -- one
playing melody, the other a drone. Gasparyan's voice is high, lonesome,
half-whispered, half-sung. It's devastatingly beautiful. A shurangiz
improvisation follows, and then comes the program's closer, a gorgeous song
with poetry by the Islamic mystic poet Molavi. What the music amounts to is a
space out of time, where the past lives eternally into the present and the
present gives up its preoccupations with future. The music itself is poetic,
full of space, haunting modes, and spiritual melody that is as rooted in the
body as love itself is. Highly recommended. (allmusic.com)
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