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Floodplain

KRONOS QUARTET Floodplain (2009 UK 12-track CD album - 'Floodplain' draws together work from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe - in particular from those nations whose external conflicts and internal divisions have often overshadowed their rich musical legacies. With these twelve specially commissioned tracks, Kronos Quartet explore centuries-old traditions while also presenting adventurous new music by young composers who sample and reinterpret aspects of their indigenous cultures. Some of these pieces have been adapted from the religious, folk, classical and popular music of Egypt, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and Iraq, among other places. Others were written for Kronos Quartet by such contemporary artists as the Palestinian electronic / hip hop collective Ramallah Underground [who Kronos founder David Harrington discovered via myspace] and the Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov. The arrangers and guest musicians working with Kronos gives 'Floodplain' a cross-cultural frisson: Modern composer Osvaldo Golijov, raised in Argentina by Eastern European Jewish parents, arranges 'Ya Habibi Ta'ala [My Love Come Quickly]', a song popularised in the forties by the glamorous young Egyptian star Asmahan. American trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik arranges Ramallah Underground's 'Tashweesh'. Tanzanian visual-conceptual artist Walter Kitundu creates special instruments combining record players and strings for a piece inspired by Ethiopian musician Alemu Aga, a master of the lyre-like instrument called the begena. For their rendition of 'Getme Getme [Don't Leave Don't Leave]', an Azerbaijani folkloric love song Kronos brought to their San Francisco home-base an improvisational ensemble led by the legendary Alim Qasimov, world-renowned performer of the Azerbaijani music known as mugham)

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Release Date 18th May 2009
Release Year 2009 - 15 years ago
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Format CD album (CDLP)
Record Label Nonesuch
Complete Stock List Go to Kronos Quartet
Product Catalogue No 7559798288
Music Genre Classical, Jazz, 00s Artists
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

1. Ya Habibi Ta'ala (My Love Come Quickly)
2. Tashweesh (Interference)
3. Wa Habibi (Beloved)
4. Getme Getme (Don't Leave Don't Leave)
5. Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap
6. Oh Mother The Handsome Man Tortures Me
7. Mugam Beyati Shiraz
8. Lullaby
9. Nihavent Sirto
10. Kara Kemir
11. Tèw Semagn Hagèré (Listen To Me My Fellow Countrymen)
12. Hold Me Neighbor In This Storm

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Recording Artist Kronos Quartet
Product Title Floodplain
Product Information Kronos Quartet Floodplain UK CD album (CDLP).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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