| Various Artists / Musical Silk Road, the |
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| Album: | Musical Silk Road, the | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | 05/2004 | |
| Label: | Accords Croises | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-09-13 | Pull Date: | 2004-11-14 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 7 Nov | 24 Oct | 17 Oct | 10 Oct | 3 Oct | 26 Sep | 19 Sep |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2004-09-07 | ||
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COLL: THE MUSICAL SILK ROAD Accords Croisés, 2004 Here is yet another compilation using the concept of ancient Asiatic trading routes to tie together a whole bunch of musical forms in one package. But I'm especially fond of this one, for three reasons: 1) The music is OUTSTANDING and the recording quality is first-rate. 2) Although this set uses a very broad definition of the Silk Road, stretching it all the way from Greece to Japan, it does a great job of highlighting the musical continuities along that wide spectrum. 3) The focus is firmly on traditional sounds (no cheesy pop here), and the double-disc format allows multiple examples per country. This comp gets my highest recommendation. PLAY IT ALL! Try these first… DISC 1: 6, 8, 13 DISC 2: 4, 7, 9, 11 DISC ONE 1. 2:14 - Mongolia: music of the high steppes: mysterious whistling vocal overtones on a bed of fiddle & zither 2. 2:09 - Kyrghyzstan: fast flute/fiddle/lutes, a cute, bouncy mountain tune. 3. 8:45 - Uzbekistan: beautiful, mystical & mysterious with moaning fem vocals, slurring fiddles. Builds power as it goes. 4. 3:13 - Mongolia: sprightly, with a Chinese sound. Much zither & flute, feels like watching butterflies. Fast ending. 5. 7:32 - Iran: a love poem with acrobatic male voice, quietly exciting târ work. 6. 7:11 - India: lovely uptempo Carnatic vocal, very listener-friendly fem singer, 2 good drummers. 7. 3:45 - China: solo zheng, thoughtful and elegant, not too many frills. 8. 5:11 - Pakistan: passionate Abida Parveen vocal, rolling tabla/harmonium backing. Very appealing. 9. 5:09 - Japan: slow, solo fem vocal & koto. Lonely, pensive, delicate. 10. 2:03 - Kyrgyzstan: quick strumming & picking on 3-stringed komuz (lute). Folksy, suggests running or riding. 11. 3:24 - Greece: solo fem vocal & guitar. Slow and sad, but with a strong, fast middle & end. 12. 6:18 - Afghanistan: nice fem vocal, violin, tabla. In praise of pre-Islamist artistic life. 13. 3:32 - Turkmenistan: wow! very cool solo dutâr, bendy/stretchy 1-string plucking vs. fast strumming. DISC TWO 1. 4:28 - Iraq: virtuoso solo oud, melodic but aggressive, sounds a lot like Spanish guitar playing. Several mood shifts. 2. 12:29 - Pakistan: strong qawwali track - loud, ecstatic male vocal + chorus, harmonium & tablas 3. 1:15 - Turkey: spoken word, with much echo. Listen for the very cool chorus bits 4. 7:29 - Afghanistan: fem vocal with reed flute, tabla; slow and stately, very nice 5. 5:04 - Turkmenistan: quick strummed dutâr (lute) sounds almost like a ukelele, creaky male vocals are fun to listen to 6. 3:51 - China: instrumental solo pipa (lute), reflective mood, impressive picking and strange rolling technique 7. 6:56 - Korea: yow! traditional opera: spoken intro leads to a powerful, twisted, wailing female vocal, single drum accompaniment. 8: 2:53 - Uzbekistan: midtempo dance for dutâr (lute) and fiddle, lonely, sounds almost Appalachian to me. 9. 5:08 - Turkey: awesome fast solo saz (lute), then alternates with low male vocal: the whirling dervish praises Ali. 10. 1:51 - Kyrgyzstan: happy love song for plain-voiced woman and strummed komuz (lute). Great lyrics (see booklet). 11. 4:22 - Mongolia: upbeat male chorus with sawing fiddle. Listen for throat singing and little kids! 12. 2:28 - Tajikistan: a lament: wailing solo female vox, she’s at some distance from the mic. 13. 1:53 - China: Chinese Catholic music, a Renaissance tune, performed by orchestra with many gongs, drums, pipes. [ Fo ] – September 2004 | ||
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