With Urban Classical Music (Iran), Earth Healing Music (Bolivia) and Daisy Correia (Portugal-NL).
1- Urban Classical Music from Iran.
The album Melodic Circles is written and produced by two classically trained Iranian musicians, cousins Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami. Both are masters of their instruments: Mehdi plays the Iranian member of the lute family, the setar, while Adib drums on the tombak goblet. The roots of Melodic Circles are in traditional Kurdish music from the ‘Fars province’, which is widely regarded as the cultural capital of Iran. Iranian classical musicians have a twofold task when they learn their craft: they have to learn the old melodies that have been passed down over the generations, called the ‘radifs’, and turn them into something new through a process of skilled improvisations. The music is also built around radifs and hundreds of organized dastgåh (equivalent to scales) to create melodic circles of tension, interest and mysticism.
CD. Melodic Circles: Urban Classical Music from Iran. Label: ARC Music, code: EUCD2794.
2- Earth Healing Music from Bolivia – 50 years of Los Ruphay.
The Bolivian band Los Ruphay has existed for fifty years. A Cry for Revolution is the album to celebrate that half century. The band plays on traditional musical instruments from the Andes such as the small ‘charango’ guitar, panflutes and various types of percussion. A Cry for Revolution is not a political statement, but rather a call to heal the earth, to respect traditional cultures and to find the balance between man and mother earth. The music sounds traditional and at the same time also contemporary. Exciting music that goes beyond the regular folk music from the Andes.
CD. A Cry for Revolution – Earth Healing Music from Bolivia – 50 years of Los Ruphay. Label: Arc Music (2018), code: EUCD2795. VIDEO
3- Daisy Correia.
That a Dutch could sing the fado, the Portuguese might deny. But this woman from two cultures proves with this CD, which contains three self-written songs, that it is possible to combine Portuguese traditions in a broad sound with a Dutch voice. She sings in a quiet, soft but also powerful voice about her grandmother, about the birthplace of her Portuguese mother and tells a story that her great-grandfather told about 1900. Fado’s with a touch of jazz.
CD. Fado do Norte – Daisy Correia. Label: Coast to Coast (2013), code: 900.3202.020. VIDEO
