Borned in 1963 in Tehran, Keyhan Kalhor is issued from a Kurdish family of Kirmanshan. He is a compositeur and a famous and wonderful player of kemençe. He made records alone or with Ali Akbar Moradi, or the Indian sitar player Shujaat Husein Khan, or the Turkish Erdal Erzincan. He wrote music for Mohammad Shajarian or Shahram Nazeri.
This CD present pieces for kemençe and tumbak (with Pejman Haddadi). We could appreciate the extraordinary beauty of his kemençe sound, that reaching the sonority of the greatest classical violins.