Persian Music
Hossein Alizâdeh, setar
Madjid Khaladj, tombak, dayre & daf
Homa Niknam, vocal
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Austere Passionate Beauty, April 28, 2006
Reviewer: PBSF "PB" [+]Persian Music
Hossein Alizâdeh, setar
Madjid Khaladj, tombak, dayre & daf
Homa Niknam, vocal
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Austere Passionate Beauty, April 28, 2006
Reviewer: PBSF "PB" (San Francisco, CA USA)
It was this CD that served as my belated introduction to the rich and beautiful world of Persian Classical Music. And what an introduction it was.
As noted, there's a pervasive feeling of austerity that's present throughout this music, a potent silence that underlies even its most exclamatory moments. Add the passionate yet restrained lyricism that characterizes most of these pieces (which are really more like successive chapters within a single extended narrative), and you wind up with a musical counterpart of the same spirit that expresses itself in some of the best Persian poetry.
The instrumentalists present on this CD, and especially Homa Nikham's vocals, are a perfect match for that expression.
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Songs of freedom and devotion, January 4, 2004
Reviewer: "nsabba" (Brookline, MA)
In this CD, the Alizadeh and Khaladj duo extend their new interpretations of traditional Iranian musical systems. Their work demonstrates that the traditional system provides as much freedom in music composition as film has provided Iranian directors in the last 25 odd years, universal ideas expressed in a proven system.
Maybe it has been easier for directors and visual artists to comment on social issues and freedom by creating visual allegories. Meanwhile, music, being the more restricted art in Islam, had remained focused on renewal of classical repertoires with little deviation from formalized types. Thus, composers rarely introduced new forms without violating the traditional dastgahs, or modes of music. Most attempts broke the system by too overt overlays of external forms.
In this concert we hear one of the best of the successful works. This is a very thoughtful musical attempt at overtly focusing on current issues. They adapt poetry recitations in declamation form rather than the true goal of traditional singers of abstracting a nightingale, a Bird. This shift in poetry delivery allows the Alizadeh/Kkahladj duo, o
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