Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan - Endless Vision (2006)

#01 - Birds
#02 - Armenian Romances
#03 - Sari Galin
#04 - Call Of The Birds
#05 - Mama
#06 - Shurangiz Improvisation
#07 - Tasnif Parvaneh Shoä

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WC here again bringing you an excellent live album from two musicians widely considered to be Ostads within the Iranian musical tradition (equivilant to the status we give in the west to composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovski etc). It is an interesting recording due to the fusion of Armenian and Iranian styles, which while similar are still distinct from each other. Anyhow, Gasparyan’s arrangements of some of his own classics and reworkings of traditional Armenian folk songs allow Alizadeh quite a bit of room for improvisation and the result is, what I feel, a masterwork. Aside from the musical excellence of this performance, the event also is considered a social breakthrough, in which a female singer performed live with an otherwise male roster and appeared before a mixed-sex audience in Teheran so yeah, its pretty historic stuff and its up for a Grammy in 2007 under the category of Traditional World Music. So give it a spin if you're game.