BIRDS
Hossein Alizadeh-Madjid Khaladj-Homa Niknam
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horizon | Hossein Alizadeh - Madjid Khaladj - Homa Niknam | 13:02 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Birds | Hossein Alizadeh - Madjid Khaladj - Homa Niknam | 12:18 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Night light | Hossein Alizadeh - Madjid Khaladj - Homa Niknam | 17:15 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Fire | Hossein Alizadeh - Madjid Khaladj - Homa Niknam | 5:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Light as the butterfly | Hossein Alizadeh - Madjid Khaladj - Homa Niknam | 5:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 5 Songs |
Recent Customer Reviews
Just One Of Many Gems
by saam.sadeghiThis is one of the best examples of classical music I have come across; every layer of these songs reveals something more beautiful and profound. From beginning to end, I was moved to tears by the sheer energy of every song, especially, "Fire."
The quality of Farsi lyrics, from classic literature, chosen for this album fit the music so well; you don't have to be a native speaker to understand the emotion behind every single word, the music will take you there.
Recurssions: voice of nature, nature of voice
by nassimSabbaThat the duo of Alizadeh and Khaladj have taken the deconstruction of voice and music to new frontiers is undeniable. It may be that the complex and restrictive Persian composition and performance system offers them the space to experiment. Although this may sound like a contradiction, it actually offers a strong framework in which can experiment in exchanging voice for music and music for voice, melody for rhythm and vice versa, and be able to gauge them against established historic classical "forms".
The Birds is one of the earliest examples of their work and has that raw edge that makes it very powerful and eye opening for the first time listener. As such, it is a great introduction to their latter work, which they seem not to publish and offer only as gifts in live performances which are rarely recorded but in small snippets destined for uTube.
Add to this the "modern" voice of Homa Niknam, who adds yet another layer to the experiment in deconstructing music in general. She offers a solid demonstration of the origin of rhythm in classical Persian music, which is poetry. Of course that culture's poetic language and its seemingly unlimited poetic inheritance is a rich reserve for these artists to draw from.
The poems here, from Mowlana (1200s CE) to Majzoob Alishah (1800s CE), and Moshiri (Contemporary/modern) lend to the experiment in rhythm definitoin in ways that are educational, emotional, and above all cerebral.
