Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff (flac).nfo
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The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble - Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff
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Artist...............: The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan - duduk
Avag Margaryan - blul
Armen Ayvazyan - kamancha
Aram Nikoghosyan - oud
Levon Torosyan - oud
Meri Vardanyan - kanon
Vladimir Papikyan - santur
Davit Avagyan - tar
Mesrop Khalatyan - dap, dhol
Armen Yeganyan - saz
Reza Nesimi - tombak
Harutyun Chkolyan - duduk
Tigran Karapetyan - duduk
Artur Atoyan - dam duduk
Levon Eskenian - director
Album................: Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff
Genre................: world, ethnic, Armenian
Source...............: CD
Year.................: recorded 2008
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy &
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 47 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.4VorbisComment
Ripped by............: Sawbuck
Included.............: NFO, cue, log
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/11/gurdjieff-folk-instruments-ensemble-review
Review (the guardian)
Robin Denselow
Thursday 11 August 2011
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Georges Gurdjieff is best known as a mystic and spiritual
teacher, but he was also a musician who composed by
dictating to his pupil, the Russian pianist Thomas de
Hartmann. The great jazz pianist Keith Jarrett helped
revive international interest in Gurdjieff's work with his
Sacred Hymns album, in 1980, but this set presents his
music in a very different setting. Gurdjieff was born in
Armenia, and influenced by the songs he heard on his
travels through the Middle East and Central Asia. This
Ensemble, directed by Armenian musician Levon Eskenian,
sets out to return his music to its "ethnic inspirational
sources". Which means Eskenian has chosen pieces that
relate to folk songs or sacred songs that have their roots
in Armenia, or neighbouring regions, and that they are
performed by leading Armenian folk musicians. The result
is a delicate, haunting and atmospheric selection of
instrumental pieces. Played by a 14-piece acoustic band,
they range from drifting, mesmeric arrangements for the
duduk Armenian woodwind to subtle, sparse passages, or
more sturdy dance pieces played on the zither-like kanon,
the oud or the santur dulcimer. An intriguing, often
gently exquisite set.
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http://www.gurdjieffensemble.com/
The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in
2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian, with the aim
of creating ethnographically authentic arrangements of the
G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. The
instrumentalists playing duduk, blul/nay, saz, tar,
kamancha, oud, kanon, santur, dap/daf, tombak and dhol.
The famous German record label, ECM records, released the
Gurdjieff" to international acclaim and prestigious
awards. The album won the Edison Award in the Netherlands,
the National Music Award in Armenia and was selected as
radio stations. The Ensemble has performed throughout
Europe and Asia.
Gurdjieff is known to many in the West as one of the major
spiritual figures of the 20th century. His extraordinary
musical repertoire was based on the music he heard during
his journeys in Armenia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and
many parts of Central Asia, India and North Africa, where
he witnessed a myriad of folk and spiritual music, rituals
and dance traditions. Levon Eskenian has chosen and
arranged those pieces that have roots in Armenian, Greek,
Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Caucasian folk and
spiritual music for Eastern folk instruments.
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https://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2200/2236.php
Fascinating and highly attractive project which
returns the music of Gurdjieff (c. 1866 - 1949) to its
compositions have largely been studied, in the West, via
the piano transcriptions of Thomas de Hartmann. Armenian
composer Levon Eskenian now goes beyond the printed notes
to look at the musical traditions that Gurdjieff
encountered during his travels, and rearranges the
compositions from this perspective. Eskenian draws
attention to the roots of the pieces in Armenian, Greek,
Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Persian and Caucasian folk and
spiritual music. Enlisting the assistance of some of the
leading players in Armenia, Eskenian founded the Gurdjieff
Folk Instruments Ensemble in 2008, and with them he has
now realized a remarkable album.
"What appeals most to me in Levon Eskenian's
instrumentation is the extremely meticulous, clear cut
tiniest intervention is done with sound, which is very
characteristic of Gurdjieff's works. There is deep silence
Ecclesiastes chapter of the Bible, or to the truth told of
deep silences from faraway lands, a stillness that has not
been darkened at all, and has the degree of density that
leaves the Gurdjieffian silence immaculate."
- Tigran Mansurian
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Tracklisting
1. (00:05:11) - Chant from a Holy Book
2. (00:02:39) - Kurd Shepherd Melody
3. (00:01:44) - Prayer
4. (00:05:41) - Sayyid Chant and Dance No. 10
5. (00:04:48) - Sayyid Chant and Dance No. 29
6. (00:02:38) - Armenian Song
7. (00:03:54) - Bayaty
8. (00:03:56) - Sayyid Chant and Dance No. 9
9. (00:03:40) - No. 11 (from the volume 'Asian songs and rhythms'
10. (00:03:47) - Caucasian Dance
11. (00:03:12) - No. 40 (from the volume 'Asian songs and rhythms'
12. (00:02:25) - Trinity
13. (00:03:29) - Assyrian Women Mourners
14. (00:03:52) - Atarnakh, Kurd Song
15. (00:02:00) - Arabian Dance
16. (00:01:38) - Ancient Greek Dance
17. (00:03:33) - Duduki
Playing Time.........: 01:00:43
Total Size...........: 244.07 MB
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