New Album of Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan

[Piling]

Iranian kamancheh player Kayan Kalhors East meets East projects have brought some tantalizing cultural hybrids to full flower. The on-going collaboration with Anatolian baglama master Erdal Erzincan is one of the most striking of them. The source material for their improvisations in this intense and fascinating performance - recorded in Bursa, to the south of Istanbul - includes music from all over Turkey and music of traditional Persian provenance. These two master musicians from Teheran and Erzurum intertwine melodies, revisit The Wind (title piece of their 2004 recording), and create instrumental music which acknowledges tradition but declines to be restricted by it.

[Anthea]

http://youtu.be/Q0OwPWcykBA

Iranian kamancheh player Kayan Kalhors East meets East projects have brought some tantalizing cultural hybrids to full flower. The on-going collaboration with Anatolian baglama master Erdal Erzincan is one of the most striking of them. The source material for their improvisations in this intense and fascinating performance - recorded in Bursa, to the south of Istanbul - includes music from all over Turkey and music of traditional Persian provenance. These two master musicians from Teheran and Erzurum intertwine melodies, revisit The Wind (title piece of their 2004 recording), and create instrumental music which acknowledges tradition but declines to be restricted by it.

You always find such lovely music