Nour ensemble – alba cd hermes records – her-025 iran

• recorded live at ardeshir babakan palace -firouzabad fars between september 15-17 2004.

Comes in a thick digibook packaging.
Texts are in english and persian.

Nine artists, Persian and French, singers and instrumentalists, are combining their own musical tradition to reinterpret traditional Kurdish, Persian and European repertoire. Medieval pieces, Gregorian plain song and Spanish cantigas from a repertoire situated between 9th and 15th centuries are dialoguing and are mixed with Persian and Kurdish folk and traditional melodies. The results are an astounding mix of world and ancient music, with a fantastically illustrated book to guide you through.

Review:
''this is a very worthwhile and genuinely transporting experience, with moments of truly haunting beauty''. -- Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, 12th November 2005

About the Artist
NOUR means Light. NOUR ensemble was founded in year 2000 around the project of piece 'ALBA' . It was the first project to combine Iranian and European Vocal music.
In 2002 the Nour’s vocal quintet worked on the Occidental polyphonic repertoire from the 15th to the 17th century. The ensemble has performed in ancient churches of the Azerbaijan province in Iran.
In 2003, NOUR ensemble decided to focus even more and deeper on this musical experience between Occident and Persia. Some Iranian instruments joined the European and Iranian singers.

Nour ensemble – alba cd iran hermes records (3) – her-025 label: hermes records – her-025 format: cd, album country: iran released: 2005 genre: classical, folk, world, & country style: persian classical, medieval, renaissance, religious tracklist 1 alleluja 5:09 2 santa maria amar 15:52 3 villancico 3:40 4 alba 6:47 5 cunctissimus concanentes 5:04 6 uterus 12:17 7 lullaby 4:09 8 miragresh fremosos 10:07 9 novus annus 5:13 credits baritone vocals – pierre-yves binard bass vocals – hamid khosroshahi chanter [persian and kurdish] – mostafa mahmoudi composed by, arranged by – nour ensemble, christophe rezai* daf, goblet drum [tombak] – ali rahimi engineer – kiarash alimi engineer, baritone vocals, duduk, recorder, dhol – reza asgarzadeh graphics, design – mandana aghaeipour graphics, photography by, oud, strings [shourangiz] – ali boustan photography by – nima alizâdeh producer – christophe rezai* producer, production manager – ramin sadighi strings [kamancheh] – saba alizâdeh supervised by [vocal] – jasmin martorell tenor vocals – pierre baranger translated by – poupeh missaghi