HEART STRUMS Reverberations from another world

Oh, Strummer of the lute of my heart, Hear in this moan the reply of my heart. Rumi ای زﻪ زﻨﺪه رﺑﺎب دل ﻦ ﻮ ﻮ از اﻦ ﻮاب دل ﻦ ﻮﻮی Four top, accomplished musicians, envoys by whose ngers the magical hand of music strums the hearts of listeners, imbue their environs with other-worldly sounds whose rustle, tap, chime, clink, lilt, whisper, and croon touch the souls of audiences and squire them on an intoxicating journey of transformation through uttering restlessness, sobbing grief, galloping ecstasy, and swirling joy. Rooted rmly in the melodic frames of classical Persian music, this collection inspires the spirit in meditative, romantic, melancholic, and joyous explorations, even of listeners unfamiliar with the sounds of this musical tradition. Hossein Alizadeh, Behnam Samani, virtuoso acclaimed composer, percussionist who plays daf, a frame musicologist, teacher, and drum, and Tombak, a goblet drum, was an undisputed born in Iran and lives in Cologne, contemporary master of Germany. He has worked and played classical Persian music, was with the most prominent musicians and born in Tehran and lives in renowned masters of Iranian music, Iran. He is a virtuoso player rendering not only complex rhythms, of setar (three-string) and tar but also improvising unexpected (string), a Persian lute, which melodies. He is a founding member of is considered the "Sultan of the Zarbang ensemble and through his instruments". Celebrated for collaboration and performances with his refreshing world-class musicians in international improvisations, he is also an venues, has attracted audiences acknowledged preserver of unfamiliar with classical Iranian music to this art form. the collection of melodic frames of traditional Iranian music, known as radif. In 2007 he was nominated for Grammy Award for his collaboration with Armenian Saba Alizadeh, was born in Iran. He musician, Djivan Gasparyan, for their album The Endless Vision. is a talented player of Kamancheh, a string instrument played like cello, Hossein Behroozinia, was which sound resembles, yet born in Tehran and lives in strangely differs from, that of violin, Vancouver, Canada. A child viola, and cello. An accomplished prodigy who was accepted into classical Persian musician, he has Tehran's Conservatory of Music also moved in the area of at the age of 9, he plays oud experimental electronic music. and barbat, an ancient Persian lute, for which he has written numerous compositions. He has taught at prestigious institutes, directed, worked, and performed with some of the most respected ensembles of classical Iranian music, and has successfully championed the revival of barbat. Among other numerous international awards, he has received the First Order of Arts, the highest honor granted by Iran's Ministry of Culture.