Hossein Alizadeh performs solo on Shurangiz. In the first part,
Shurangiz is tuned in the fourth measure and with metal strings
in the Avaz-e Afshari mode of Persian music. In the second part,
the instrument, with a combination of gut and metal strings, is
played in the Dastgah-e Homayoun mode.
Shouresh (Tar) and Sohrab (Tombak) play
tribute to one of Iran's remarkable Tombak players. The first
part is an improvisation in Nava mode and the second part
composed pieces in Chahargah.
Zarbang
is a collective of the finest percussionists from Iran and
Afghanistan. Inspired by tribal rhythms, they utilize
instruments of various cultures while staying true to the
essence and origin of each. This new sound entails the use of
vocalization, melody and various effects in the context of
percussion. Zarbang’s sound is dynamic, meditative and internal
on one hand and ecstatic and trance inducing on the other,
drawing upon Sufi and ancient Persian rhythms used for inducing
altered states.
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Song of Sparrows-Hossein
Alizadeh
Total Time 69:14
Hossein Alizadeh: Setar, Shourangiz
Shahab Fayyaz: Ney, Tubes
Reza Asgarzadeh: Wind Instruments
Ali Boustan: Oud
Nima Alizadeh: Robab
Saba Alizadeh: Kamancheh
Ali Rahimi, Pezhham Akhavass: Percussions
Raheleh Barzegari: Vocals
Arsalan Kamkar, Bardia Kiarass, Hamed Kermani: Violin
La'ya Etemaadi, Pedram Faryoussefi: Viola
Karen Kabiri, Pourrang Pour Shirazi: Bass
Maestro
Alizadeh’s compositions for a film by the same name (dir. Majid
Majidi) in addition to his compositions inspired by the
movie are gathered in this album. For
the 3rd time in his career,
Song of Sparrows brought Alizadeh
the award for
best original music from the Int'l Fadjr Film Festival (2007).The
Movie itself also represented the Iranian Cinema at the next
edition of the Oscars for the "Best Foreign Language Film"
category.
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On the Wind-Peyman
Yazdanian
Total Time 69:14
Peyman Yazdanian:
Piano
Reza Asgarzadeh: Duduk, Accordeon
Kiya Tabassian: Setar Improvisation
Pasha Hanjani: Ney
Bardia Kiarass: Violin, Viola
Madjid Esmaili: Cello
Darshan Anand: Tabla
Ali Rahimi: Tombak
Alireza Miragha: Trumpet
Kaveh Nassehi: Guitar
The Noban String Ensemble
Featuring original
soundtracks of Reward of Silence (Maziar Miri), A
Piece of Bread (Kamal Tabrizi) and Friday's Soldiers (Massoud
Kimiai), Peyman himself explains: I have a special
relationship with each of these scores. Reward of Silence made it possible to pay homage
to the magic wind instrument duduk. When the director of
Friday's Soldiers painted the world of his movie for me, I
started composing the score in a way that was diametrically
opposed to the geography and lore of its setting. In A Piece of
Bread I was inspired by a long forgotten maqam called Sahari,
revived by my friend and cousin Kiya Tabassian. It allowed me to
enter an abstract world of ancient music. All these were
opportunities that the magic screen afforded me.
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Monad-Hossein
Alizadeh / Pejman Hadadi
Total Time 69:14
Hossein Alizadeh:
Setar
Pejman Hadadi: Tombak
Hossein
Alizadeh's enchanting and abstract improvisations on
Setar accompanied by Pejman Hadadi's virtuoso Tombak,
was captured live in two sessions, one in Avaz-e-Dashti and the other in Avaz-e-Isfahan mode. A
moment...
A pluck of the string,
An opening.
That moment...
That opening,
That pluck of the string.
Draws in, lures, releases for ever
A Monad.
(Hossein Alizadeh)
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Clouds-Various
Artists
Total Time CD1 76:19
Total Time CD2 76:29
Clouds
are
fragments of music emanating from the mind and body of musicians
of three generations. They paint a horizon for their listeners.
A gift, let's say for those who appreciate music under the
vernal sky.
Artists and Ensembles appearing on Clouds: Djivan Gasparyan, Pejman Haddadi, Omar Faruk
Tekbilek, Christophe Rezai, Peyman Yazdanian, Azad Hakim
Rabet, Kiawasch Sahebnassagh, Arvin Sedaghat Kish, Kamran
Rastegar, Hooshyar Khayam, Mehrdad Pakbaz, Kiya Tabassian, Ziya
Tabassian, Ankido Darash, Alireza Mortazavai, Bardia Kiarass, Bazar Bla,
Mish Mash, Bazaari's and Constantinople.
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The
Companion-Ali
Akbar Moradi / Ulas Ozdemir
Total Time 40:14
Ali
Akbar Moradi: Tanbour
Ulas Ozdemir: Baglama
The
Companion is a live recording where the mystic Persian Tanbour
meets the Turkish Baglama.
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Trio-1-Various
Artists
Total Time 44:09
Composers
of this collection of Duets are moving towards that least
instrumental element of music, the Sound. For the seven young
musicians appearing in this album, Sound is the mainspring of
music and theirs to attempt to discern its hidden meaning.
Nikou Youssefi, Arash Ahmadi, Negar Behbahani, Madjid Tahriri, Alireza Ansari,
Hami Haghighi and Alireza Fashami are modern, so they think
modern and their theories are born through their musical
creation.
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Tatari-Hooshyar
Khayam
Total Time 53:07
Tatari is a
collection of compositions for piano intended as concert
pieces, challenging the pianist with difficult but fluent
techniques.
Some fall into the known collections traceable to Bach’s
Well Tempered Klavier, some to the roots of Persian
Folklore in its abrupt formal structure, its obstinacy,
and its fluid inner rhythm, some enjoying techniques of
mute notes and complex rhythms close to the music of the
Boushehr musical style of the Persian Gulf region as well
as vibrant pieces in the spirit of the music of Ravi
Shankar and Hossein Alizadeh, though on a Western instrument. The seriousness of expression and abstract structure,
its new
as well as old pianism, and its roots deep in Persian
music, deserves critical attention to Tatari.
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Symphony No. 3-Alireza
Mashayekhi
Total Time 60:16
The album
features three of Mashayekhi’s
internationally recognized compositions of the 1970’s:
-
“Symphony No. 3 op.76” (An Old Fashioned Symphony for Computer)
premiered in 1979
- “Permanent op.
38” premiered in 1970 in France
- “Blind Owl
Ballet” premiered in 1973 in Tehran performed by the Tehran
Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Farhad Meshkat) based on the remarkable
masterpieces of the Persian contemporary Literature
of the same name written by Sadegh Hedayat.
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Piano Solo-Delbar
Hakim Ava
Total Time 74:12
Piano
Solo is a live recorded recital in which Delbar Hakim Ava performs
pieces from Aminollah Andre Hossein (Iran/France), Azad Hakim Rabet
(Iran) and Komitas Vartabed (Armenia).
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Crossing-Peyman
Yazdanian
Total Time 46:03
Crossing
is a
collection of four featured film soundtracks, all composed by
Peyman Yazdanian, including Look at the sky sometimes (Kamal
Tabrizi),
Wednesday Fireworks (Asghar
Farhadi),
Portrait of a Lady from far away (Ali Mosaffa)
and The little Birdboy (Rahbar
Ghanbari)
for which Peyman was awarded for the best Original Soundtrack at
the 5th Olympia film festival (December 2002) in Greece.
"Every Film interprets life and writing music for is more than
just a simple job, but rather enjoying a new existence, with new
ethics and different fates. Each, a new chance to cross from one
incident to another and from life to the next…" Peyman Yazdanian
Dialogue
reflects Mehrdad's compositions since 1991. As a graduate in
Guitar performance, Pakbaz always aimed to tie his western
classical music experiences to the rich treasures of the Persian
musical traditions. Playing the Oud as well as learning the
Persian Musical Repertoire helped him discover new horizons in
his compositions.
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Lunatic-Ahmad
Pejman
Total Time 46:20
Ahmad Pejman:
Piano, Synths
Shervin Mohajer: Kamancheh
Vahid Khosravi: Tar
Marjan Vahdat: Back Vocal
& the members of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
The
Album covers original
soundtracks of
Weeping Willow (2004, Dir.: Majid Majidi) and Little Kiss (2004, Dir.: Bahman Farman Ara)
Weeping Willow (Dir.: Majid Majidi)
A middle aged university
Professor, who became blind
since childhood, recovers his sight after
treatment in France.Back home
now, he has to face the reality of his surroundings which is far
different from what he had experienced and imagined.
Little Kiss (Bahman
Farman Ara)
Two old writers, one close to finish his latest story about death
and the other who returned to Iran after 38 years because of the death
of his son, undertake a dramatic journey.
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Tonal Practice-Hamidreza
Ardalan, Tehran Experimental Orchestra
Total Time 72:48
Shahram Tavakoli:
Violin
Bahram Jamali: Setar
Golnaz Jamshidi: Santur
Bita Razavi: Setar, Shourangiz
Nazanin Rousta: Bass Tar
Mehdi Oloumi: Kamancheh
Milad Omranlou: Percussion
Babak Modaressi: Ney
Gelareh Ghassemi: Piano Being founded and conducted by Hamidreza Ardalan,
the Tehran Experimental Orchestra is trying to build up new
interpretations on the rich treasure of the Traditional and
Folklore musical repertoire in Iran. Using Persian musical
textures and instrumentations in a kind of experimental
composition, Tonal Practice tries to merge the borders of
traditional and modern music.
In recent experiences the relation of music with work is emphasized and
therefore some of the pieces on this album come under the
heading "Work and Music".
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Chehrenama-Kamran
Rastegar
Total Time 45:55 Kamran Rastegar:
Oud, Guitar, Samples
Zafer Tawil: Percussion
Kamrooz Aram: Percussion
Sami Shumays: Violin
Katie Taylor: Double Bass
Golriz Dadedel: Voice The name of this album refers to an
illustrated
persian-language newspaper published in Cairo (1904-1950),
one of
many publications that called for freedom and reform in Iran.
Pieces in this collection are selected from three soundtracks
which Rastegar
wrote for three young Palestinian filmmakers since 2001 and also
pieces he wrote, inspired by some short stories published in
Chehrenama.
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Celebration-Alireza
Mashayekhi
Total Time 56:52
Iranian
Orchestra for New Music
Farimah Ghavamsadri: Piano
Sanam Gharachedaghi: Cello Alireza Mashayekhi and Farimah Ghavam Sadri co- founded "Tehran's
Group for Contemporary Music" in 1993 to introduce contemporary
music in Iran. As a second step Alireza Mashayekhi established
"Iranian Orchestra for New Music" in 1995. Celebrating the 10th
anniversary of the ensemble, the Orchestra performs five pieces
composed and conducted by Mashayekhi.
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Safar-The
World Wind Band
Total Time 50:54 Dirk Campbell : Wind Instruments Jan Hendrickse: Wind Instruments Dirk
Campbell and
Jan
Hendrickse have travelled
around the world and studied wind instrument traditions for many
years. The World Wind Band combines the diverse and colourful
sounds of Asia, the middle East, Africa and Europe.
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Rira-Soheil
Nafissi
Total Time 36:58 Soheil Nafissi
: Compositions, Vocals, Guitars Pouya Mahmoodi: Electric & Acoustic Guitars Pierre Baranger: Flute Christophe Rezai: , Harmonium, Arrangements
Reza Asgarzadeh: Rhodes Keyboards, Arrangements Soheil Nafissi is experiencing a form of
Persian Chansons by using famous contemporary Iranian poetries
(from Ahmad Shamlou, Nima Yushij, S. Akhavan Saless, Nasser
Zamani, Ebrahim Monsefi & Manouchehr Atashi) accompanied by his acoustic guitar.
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Alba-Nour
Ensemble
Total Time 68:12 Christophe Rezai : Tenor, Harmonium, Conductor Mostafa Mahmoudi: Vocal
(Persian, Kurdish) Pierre Baranger: Tenor Reza Asgarzadeh: Baritone, Duduk, Dohol Ali Boustan: Oud, Shuranguiz, Back Vocal Pierre-Yves Binard: Baritone,
Percussion Hamid Khosroshahi: Bass Vocal Ali Rahimi: Daf, Tombak, Percussion Saba Alizadeh: Kamancheh The concept of the Nour Ensemble's repertoire is
based on Persian, Kurdish and Medieval Vocal
Music. Supervised by Christophe Rezai, they perform Persian and
Kurdish folk
melodies, Spanish Cantigas and Gregorian
Chants. Alba has been recorded at the ruins of
the 1600 year old Ardeshir Babakan Castle, southern Iran.
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So Close So Far -Mohammadreza
Aligholi Total Time 50:12
So Close So Far is a collection of
three original motion picture soundtracks which are all directed
by one of Iran's well-known movie directors of the new
generation (Reza Mirkarimi).
The Album covers Under the Moonlight, Here a shining
light and So Close So Far which the last one brought
Aligholi the Fajr Film Festival Award for
best soundtrack in early 2005.
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Persian Trilogy-Behzad
Ranjbaran Total Time 78:21
Persian Trilogy is an Orchestral work inspired by stories
from the great Persian epic poem (Shahnameh, The Book of Kings)
written by the legendary poet Ferdowsi (940-1020 c.). Ranjbaran used three episodes from this epic as the basis for his
music (The stories of Seemorgh, The Blood of Siavash & Seven
Passages of Rostam). He spent 11 years to finish this
masterpiece which has been performed by the famous London
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jo Ann Falletta).
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Spring
in Niavaran -
Various Artists
Total Time 65:47
During May & June 2004, Hermes Records organized several concerts
in collaboration with Iranian artists as well as bands from abroad.
This
Album covers the highlights of those live performances
including tunes from Bazar Bla (Sweden), Hamon Martin Quartet
(France), Christophe Joneau Trio (France), Persiano (Iran,
Norway) and their Jam sessions.
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Egosystem -
Peter Soleimanipour
Total Time 62:09
Egoystem
is a book of musical lyricism composed in appraisal of those human
inter-ego and intra-ego relations that lead to beauty.
Peter (who plays the Double-Bass, Flute, Saxophone, Guitars and
Percussions) is accompanied by Saeed Nayeb Mohammadi (Oud), Aydin
Ahmadinejad (Cello), Homayoun Nassiri (Percussions), Babak Riyahi Pour
(Bass), Ali Rahimi (Daf) & Kasra Ebrahimi (Udu)
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Endless
Vision - Hossein Alizadeh -
Jivan Gasparyani
Total Time 60:33
Endless
Vision is the Live Recording of a unique musical event where two
World-known Artists and Virtuosos (Hossein
Alizadeh
from Iran and Jivan Gasparyan from Armenia)
went on stage in an outdoor venue in Tehran (Sept.4-6, 2003), hosting
more than 12,000 spectators. The artists were : Hossein Alizadeh (Shurangiz)
JivanGasparyan (Duduk,
Vocal) accompanied by: VazgenMarkaryan
(Bass Duduk), AfsanehRasaee (Vocal),
HoorshidBiabani (Vocal),
ArmenGhazaryan
(Duduk), Ali Boustan (Shurangiz),
Mohammadreza Ebrahimi (Oud),
Ali Samadpour (Dammam,
Udu, Vocal) and
BehzadMirzaee
(Daf, Tombak)
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