Released July 28, 2008 Release date 28 July 2008 Label World Village | Length 52:59 Genre Middle Eastern music | |
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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
- "Ascending Bird" (Siamak Aghaei,C. Jacobsen) – 6:54
- "Silent City" (Kayhan Kalhor) – 29:10
- "Parvaz" (Kalhor) – 6:23
- "Beloved, do not let me be discouraged" (C. Jacobsen ) – 10:34
Personnel
Songs
1Ascending Bird6:54
2Silent City29:09
3Parvaz6:23
References
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