Morteza Mahjubi - Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. II (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Morteza Mahjubi
- Title: Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. II
- Year Of Release: 2022
- Label: Death Is Not The End
- Genre: World
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 44:49
- Total Size: 108; 154 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Second volume of utterly transfixing recordings made in Iran between 1956-1965, featuring Morteza Mahjubi using Persian microtonal scales to play traditionally European instrumentation, primarily the piano. Incredible work that hits somewhere between Harry Partch, Moondog and Dariush Dolat-Shahi.
Morteza Mahjubi's sound was developed from his special piano tuning system - Piano-ye Sonnati - that allowed him to play Persian dastgahs, microtonal and monophonic in nature, on the usually tonal, polyphonic Western piano. This second set follows up where its predecessor left off, collecting recordings made from Iranian national radio broadcasts.
Mahjubi would improvise on his piano regularly on the Golha radio shows, which explored Persian classical music and poetry on Iranian national radio until the revolution in 1979. Mahjubi was a frequent guest until his death in 1965, and these recordings were snipped from hundreds of hours of broadcasts, highlighting his virtuoso skill on the instrument, occasionally joined by faint tombak percussion or interspersed with poetry or voice.
If you're familiar with Persian classical music the compositions themselves won't surprise you, but the piano gives them an alien quality - they're familiar yet just unusual enough for the brain to jolt, in the best way. Mahjubi's Piano-ye Sonnati system renders the compositions as unusual, ageless and beautiful, while the ferric recording dissolves the sound with the resonant intention of something like the Disintegration Loops. There's nothing else out there quite like it - we could listen to an entire box set of this stuff - if you haven't already checked the first volume, do so immediately and come back for this wonderful encore.
1.01 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Turk (Barg-e Sabz #34) (3:16)
1.02 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Shur (Golha-ye Rangarang #182B) (1:57)
1.03 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Yek Shakheh Gol #259) (1:26)
1.04 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Dashti (Golha-ye Rangarang #430) (2:14)
1.05 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Shur (Barg-e Sabz #113) (2:26)
1.06 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Turk (Yek Shakheh Gol #259) (2:11)
1.07 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Yek Shakheh Gol #146) (3:51)
1.08 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Afshari (Golha-ye Rangarang #260) (1:06)
1.09 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation & Avaz in Isfahan (Golha-ye Rangarang #254) [feat. Marzieh] (3:11)
1.10 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Zand (Yek Shakheh Gol #134) (2:57)
1.11 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Homayun (Barg-e Sabz #30) (2:54)
1.12 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Barg-e Sabz #119) (1:19)
1.13 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Afshari (Yek Shakheh Gol #179) (5:02)
1.14 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation & Avaz in Bayat-e Zand (Golha-yi Rangarang #290) [feat. Abdolvahab Shahidi] (11:00)
Morteza Mahjubi's sound was developed from his special piano tuning system - Piano-ye Sonnati - that allowed him to play Persian dastgahs, microtonal and monophonic in nature, on the usually tonal, polyphonic Western piano. This second set follows up where its predecessor left off, collecting recordings made from Iranian national radio broadcasts.
Mahjubi would improvise on his piano regularly on the Golha radio shows, which explored Persian classical music and poetry on Iranian national radio until the revolution in 1979. Mahjubi was a frequent guest until his death in 1965, and these recordings were snipped from hundreds of hours of broadcasts, highlighting his virtuoso skill on the instrument, occasionally joined by faint tombak percussion or interspersed with poetry or voice.
If you're familiar with Persian classical music the compositions themselves won't surprise you, but the piano gives them an alien quality - they're familiar yet just unusual enough for the brain to jolt, in the best way. Mahjubi's Piano-ye Sonnati system renders the compositions as unusual, ageless and beautiful, while the ferric recording dissolves the sound with the resonant intention of something like the Disintegration Loops. There's nothing else out there quite like it - we could listen to an entire box set of this stuff - if you haven't already checked the first volume, do so immediately and come back for this wonderful encore.
1.01 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Turk (Barg-e Sabz #34) (3:16)
1.02 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Shur (Golha-ye Rangarang #182B) (1:57)
1.03 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Yek Shakheh Gol #259) (1:26)
1.04 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Dashti (Golha-ye Rangarang #430) (2:14)
1.05 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Shur (Barg-e Sabz #113) (2:26)
1.06 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Turk (Yek Shakheh Gol #259) (2:11)
1.07 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Yek Shakheh Gol #146) (3:51)
1.08 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Afshari (Golha-ye Rangarang #260) (1:06)
1.09 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation & Avaz in Isfahan (Golha-ye Rangarang #254) [feat. Marzieh] (3:11)
1.10 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Bayat-e Zand (Yek Shakheh Gol #134) (2:57)
1.11 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Homayun (Barg-e Sabz #30) (2:54)
1.12 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Mahur (Barg-e Sabz #119) (1:19)
1.13 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation in Afshari (Yek Shakheh Gol #179) (5:02)
1.14 - Morteza Mahjubi - Improvisation & Avaz in Bayat-e Zand (Golha-yi Rangarang #290) [feat. Abdolvahab Shahidi] (11:00)
Year 2022 | World | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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