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Hafez Modirzadeh: In Convergence Liberation
by Karl Ackermann
Multi-reed player and composer Hafez Modirzadeh has created a sweeping global experience with In Convergence Liberation; a further examination of the cross-cultural influences explored on Post-Chromodal Out (PI Recordings, 2012). The earlier recording incorporated elements of multi-regional modalism and chromatics, and these compositional techniques are made even more textural with a significantly deeper line up of players. Modirzadeh--playing five reed instruments plus percussion--string quartet ETHEL, two vocalists and the returning trumpeter Amir ElSaffar join masters of Persian string and percussion ...
Continue ReadingHafez Modirzadeh: In Convergence Liberation
by Hrayr Attarian
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and ethnomusicologist Hafez Modirzadeh's In Convergence Liberation on the intrepid Pi Recordings label is an ambitious work, and one at which he admirably succeeds. The album is a single, unified entity made up of five distinct but interlaced suites that explore a primal spirituality and express it in timeless poetry. Deftly merging Iberian song, eastern (primarily Persian) and western classical heritages and a hefty dose of improvisation Modirzadeh creates a contemplative transcultural musical epic. As he ...
Continue ReadingAmir ElSaffar - Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Pi Recordings ha pubblicato una serie di interessanti incisioni in cui l'avanguardia di matrice afroamericana si confronta con musiche di origine etnica, senza per questo cadere nelle facili trappole del genere world. È un'esigenza nata dalle origini degli autori, musicisti come Rudresh Mahantappa, che ha riscoperto legittimi legami tra musica indiana e improvvisazione jazzistica, o, appunto Amir ElSaffar, trombettista di origine iraqena e Hafez Modirzadeh, sassofonista tenore con le origini in Iran. Si tratta di musicisti che conoscono bene ...
Continue ReadingFirst Dance
by Bill Siegel
What do a Mescalero Apache electric bassist, a Michoacan-Mexican percussionist, a Chicano guitarist, a Nicaraguan-Jewish drummer, and French-Iranian, Argentine and Chinese-American saxophonists have in common with John Coltrane and Jim Pepper?The answer comes in the form of John-Carlos Perea's First Dance. Perea--who plays fretted and unfretted electric bass--produced the CD and composed all but one of its cuts. First Dance is a testament to, and a statement of, Perea's identity as a modern urban Indian and his love ...
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