Duo Falak - Tira-Tira (2024)
BAND/ARTIST: Duo Falak
- Title: Tira-Tira
- Year Of Release: 2024
- Label: ТОПОТ
- Genre: World
- Quality: FLAC 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:35:05
- Total Size: 221 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Duo Falak is a project comprising of guitarist Denis Sorokin and percussionist Shohin Qurbon, in which the musicians engage in interpreting Tajik traditional Falak music through improvisation. Falak is a monodic genre usually performed by solo musician accompanied by a dutar or rubab. This music originated on the peaks of the Pamirs in pre-Islamic times - that is why many of its singers in their lyrics appeal to the sky with the eternal questions: who are we, where are we, why are we? Denis and Shokhin improvise falak using unusual instrumentation - on electro-acoustic guitar and doira.
The album ‘Tira-Tira’ was recorded live at a concert in Tashkent in September 2023, and this is a half-hour sound stream. Assisted by this timing, a state of religious trance and even aural hypnosis is achieved, facilitated by the generally continuous sound narrative of the two instruments with sudden chord changes and syncopations characteristic of intuitive music-making. Denis Sorokin hears in the falak's harmonic language features of the free jazz of the 60s and also the micro-chromatic electronic music of modern times. In his research for the Tajik journal Art Studies he notes the special changeable nature of rhythm in falak: ‘Such rhythmic freedom is probably not found in any other style, except for new types of free improvisation’.
In the duet Denis manages to take the falak performance outside the canon, playing it on an electroacoustic guitar instead of a two-stringed dutar. The acoustic properties of this music are noticeably expanded, but the dryness of the strings' ringing is nowhere to be found. In outbursts, Shohin plays the groaning of the guitar with his quick and dexterous playing on the doira, injecting dozens of rhythms as well as the characteristic iron ringing of the instrument's resinance into the flow. Another important instrument is Qurbon’s voice which takes on the quality of an echo and soars over the music as if an unsettling rain cloud. As a result, the seemingly monophonic flow of the duo's improvisation turns into a turbulent whirlpool of multiple streams, taking flight as if from the very top of the Pamir Mountains.
The album’s title is no accident. In the Tajik language there is a special play of two words ‘Tira-Tira’, which means cutting something into small pieces, shredding it, and so the music on the album is shattered with feeling, having made its elusive and mystical flight around the listener.
This release is timed to coincide with Falak Day, which is celebrated in Tajikistan on 10 October.
Tracklist:
1-1 Duo Falak - / [3:04]
1-2 Duo Falak - /\ [6:05]
1-3 Duo Falak - /\/ [4:25]
1-4 Duo Falak - /\/\ [8:12]
1-5 Duo Falak - /\/\/ [10:02]
1-6 Duo Falak - /\/\/\ [3:16]
The album ‘Tira-Tira’ was recorded live at a concert in Tashkent in September 2023, and this is a half-hour sound stream. Assisted by this timing, a state of religious trance and even aural hypnosis is achieved, facilitated by the generally continuous sound narrative of the two instruments with sudden chord changes and syncopations characteristic of intuitive music-making. Denis Sorokin hears in the falak's harmonic language features of the free jazz of the 60s and also the micro-chromatic electronic music of modern times. In his research for the Tajik journal Art Studies he notes the special changeable nature of rhythm in falak: ‘Such rhythmic freedom is probably not found in any other style, except for new types of free improvisation’.
In the duet Denis manages to take the falak performance outside the canon, playing it on an electroacoustic guitar instead of a two-stringed dutar. The acoustic properties of this music are noticeably expanded, but the dryness of the strings' ringing is nowhere to be found. In outbursts, Shohin plays the groaning of the guitar with his quick and dexterous playing on the doira, injecting dozens of rhythms as well as the characteristic iron ringing of the instrument's resinance into the flow. Another important instrument is Qurbon’s voice which takes on the quality of an echo and soars over the music as if an unsettling rain cloud. As a result, the seemingly monophonic flow of the duo's improvisation turns into a turbulent whirlpool of multiple streams, taking flight as if from the very top of the Pamir Mountains.
The album’s title is no accident. In the Tajik language there is a special play of two words ‘Tira-Tira’, which means cutting something into small pieces, shredding it, and so the music on the album is shattered with feeling, having made its elusive and mystical flight around the listener.
This release is timed to coincide with Falak Day, which is celebrated in Tajikistan on 10 October.
Tracklist:
1-1 Duo Falak - / [3:04]
1-2 Duo Falak - /\ [6:05]
1-3 Duo Falak - /\/ [4:25]
1-4 Duo Falak - /\/\ [8:12]
1-5 Duo Falak - /\/\/ [10:02]
1-6 Duo Falak - /\/\/\ [3:16]
Year 2024 | World | Folk | FLAC / APE
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