Iranian Music: Saz-Eno [Import]

Hossein Alizadeh | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Buda Musique
• ASIN: B00000AGES
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Avāz-É Abouata: Masnavi

2. Mavaraon'nahr, Instrumental [Instrumental]

3. Mavaraon'nahr, Avāz

4. Rohab, Instrumental [Instrumental]

5. Rohab, Tasnif-É Djānam-Djānam

6. Modulation de Mode Shur au Mode Navā

7. Tasnif-E Sāz-É Nō

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new look at Persian music - again!, December 29, 1998

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Farhad Bahrami ([e-mail]) (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Iranian Music: Saz-Eno (Audio CD)

In this album, Hossein Alizadeh once again refreshes ancient tradition with new vitality. Here, in the 3 sections, he plays tanbur, setar, and tar accompanied by the subtle, but driving, tombak and daf of Madjid Khaladj, and the smooth voice of Afsaneh Rasa'ii. The right blend of voice vs instruments, and fast vs slow, I enjoy this album a lot.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh interpretations, December 17, 2003

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Nader F. "nsabba" (Brookline, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Iranian Music: Saz-Eno (Audio CD)

Madjid Khaladj provides such a finely tuned percussion accompaniment to the mater of strings Alizadeh and the smooth voiced Rassa'i that you wonder how could it be any better.

Khaladj's "reez" on the tombak shadows her highs and lows like a human chorus. Of course, this is a real surprise yet not a surprise if you know his mastery of the tombak and the daf (see the other CD's by him in the anthology series). He elevates the tombak to a fully vocalized instrument capable of having a voice like other traditional string and wind instruments.

It is also so fresh to hear Ms. Rassa'i again. For example, starting with the first cut she show her ability to weave in an out of the strictures of the generally down beat Abu-atta to provide an exceptinal brilliance to the system.

I recommend this CD very strongly to anyone who is interested in Iranian music. It is not a pop CD but shows off the ability of three masters in interpretting the traditional framework in fresh ways that feels like they are about to break it, but then you are surprised by the way they keep it intact.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Persian Music without Frills, December 17, 2008

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iranian Music: Saz-Eno (Audio CD)

This is straightforward Iranian classical music beginning in the avāz abouata, one of the seven main modes, and with further developments in the modes shur and navā. The master musicians are Hossein Alizādeh, who plays the various lutes called tār, tanbur, and sétār; Madjid Khaladj on the tomak and daf drums; and Afsāneh Rassā'i, who has a strong, fluid voice in her rendition of poetic song. It is a beautiful recording that builds momentum and mood. Musique de monde recordings from Buda, France, are often of high calibre and this album certainly is superior.