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This dazzling recording includes various classical and semi-classical forms, ensemble and solo, vocal and instrumental, in a wide range of dastgahs, recorded in Tokyo in 1989. The iffy English-language notes don't tell you anything about the 12-person group qua group, though the musicians are named and there's a certain amount of general and recording-specific information.

This is the first recording to introduce the post revolutionary music of Iran, a style adding the western taste onto practices of Iranian traditional music. An exquisite ensemble performance of traditional instruments and Avaz, a style of vocals.

World Music Library - Music of Iran I

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tsmf6z

 

 

This CD presents the Japanese court music called gagaku. This very particular type of music came to Japan from China and Korea, between the fifth and the ninth centuries. Today, the orchestra is mainly composed of percussions, koto, shinobue (a small bamboo transverse flute), sho (a mouth organ), and hichiriki (a double-reed type of oboe). At the beginning, the first version of the shakuhachi was part of the orchestra, as well as singers. After its introduction, it was adapted to suit the Japanese spirit of the time. Pieces were composed for the ensemble, influenced by the indigenous music of the time. Some ethnomusicologists have been suggesting that this music is performed almost exactly as it was a thousand years ago, making it somehow the longest untouched musical tradition in the world. Since its beginning, gagaku has been performed almost exclusively at the imperial court, and on very rare occasions outside it. This is still pretty much the case today. There still exists only two or three gagaku orchestras in Japan today, the main one being the Emperor one. Fascinating out-of-the-ordinary music!

Gagaku - Court Music of Japan

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3osjv1

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