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Floodplain [cd sound recording].
Title:
Floodplain [cd sound recording].
Author:
Kronos Quartet.
Corporate Author:
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Nonesuch, p2009.
Physical Description:
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Newly commissioned new works and original arrangements of traditional music from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe, "features music inspired by the idea that areas prone to devastating flooding will experience creative rebirth after a catastrophe"--Kronos website.
Contents:
Ya habibi ta'ala = My love, come quickly (Egypt) / Midhat Assem ; arr. Osvaldo Golijov & Kronos -- Tashweesh = Interference (Palestine) / Ramallah Underground ; arr. Kronos & Jacob Garchik -- Wa habibi = Beloved (Lebanon) / trad. ; arr. Stephen Prutsman -- Getme, getme = Don't leave, don't leave (Azerbaijan) / Said Rustamov ; arr. Alim Qasimov, string arr. Jacob Garchik (featuring Alim & Fargane Qasimov, vocals, daf) -- Raga mishra bhairavi : Alap (India) / Ram Narayan ; arr. Kronos Quartet, transcribed by Ljova -- Oh mother, the handsome man tortures me (Iraq) / unknown ; arr. Ljova & Kronos Quartet -- Mugam beyati shiraz (Azerbaijan) / Rahman Asadollahi ; arr. Kronos Quartet, transcribed by Ljova -- Lullaby (Iran) / trad., arr. Jacob Garchik & Kronos Quartet -- Nihavent sirto (Turkey) / Tanburi Cemil Bey ; arr. Stephen Prutsman -- Kara kemir (Kazakhstan) / Kuat Shildebaev ; arr. Kronos Quartet -- Tèw semagn hagèré = Listen to me, my fellow countrymen (Ethiopia) / Alèmu Aga ; arr. Jacob Garchik -- --Hold me, neighbor, in this storm-- (Serbia) / Aleksandra Vrebalov.
Added Title:
Floodplain compact disc.