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Silent City (album)

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Released
  
July 28, 2008

Release date
  
28 July 2008

Label
  
World Village

Length
  
52:59

Producer
  
Kayhan Kalhor

Genre
  
Middle Eastern music

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Recorded
  
Knoop Studios, River Edge, New Jersey

Artists
  
Kayhan Kalhor, Brooklyn Rider

Similar
  
Kayhan Kalhor albums, Other albums

Silent City is an album by New York City-based string quartet, Brooklyn Rider and Iranian Musician Kayhan Kalhor, released by World Village Records in 2008.

Contents

Kalhor met members of Brooklyn Rider in 2000 at Tanglewood, where they took part in the cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.

The title track is a Kalhor composition originally Included on Yo-Yo Ma's New Impossibilities, it is an elegy for Halabjah, a Kurdish city razed by Saddam Hussein.

Track list

  1. "Ascending Bird" (Siamak Aghaei,C. Jacobsen) – 6:54
  2. "Silent City" (Kayhan Kalhor) – 29:10
  3. "Parvaz" (Kalhor) – 6:23
  4. "Beloved, do not let me be discouraged" (C. Jacobsen ) – 10:34

Personnel

  • Kayhan Kalhor – Kamancheh, Setar
    • Brooklyn Rider
  • Colin Jacobsen – Violin
  • Jonathan Gandelsman – Violin
  • Nicholas Cords – Viola
  • Eric Jacobsen – Cello
    • Additional musicians
  • Jeff Beecher – Bass
  • Mark Suter – Percussion
  • Siamak Aghaei – Tombak, Santur on "Parvaz"

    • Songs

    1Ascending Bird6:54
    2Silent City29:09
    3Parvaz6:23

    References

    Silent City (album) Wikipedia
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