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With these 12 specially commissioned tracks, Kronos Quartet explore centuries-old traditions while also presenting adventurouse new music by young composers who sample and reinterpret aspects of their indigenous cultures. Jewel case in like new condition!

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The quartet had instruments built by Walter Kitundu, [1] a MacArthur fellow[4] inventor and builder of "phonoharps" floodplajn the "Kronos Instrument Builder in residence. Alap from Raga Mishra Bhairavi. Other than the Turkish dance Nihavent Sirto, most of the music is meditative, that is, slow and modal. Stored in a protective poly-bag for extra protection, label is attached to poly-bag making case looking like new.

The main exceptions are "Tashweesh Interference ," by the Palestinian group the Ramallah Underground, which features electronics, and the minute " Write a customer review. Listen Now with Amazon Quxrtet.

Mugam beyati shiraz Rahman Asadollahi. On "Getme, Getme," the quartet is accompanied by the Alim Qasimov ensemble, an Azeri group whose bardic vocals are supported by daf and tar a long neck stringed instrumentbalaban a double-reed wind instrumentkamancheh a bowed string instrumentand nagara a folk drum.

The feelings expressed in the music reveal the common humanity of those who play, and those who hear. Stream Floodplain by Kronos Quartet and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited. This album moves the ensemble even further afield from the conventional quartet; the players frequently double on folk instruments, floodplwin in one of the pieces they don't use their own instruments at all, but newly invented ones, created especially for this album.

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For these twelve compositions, the quartet and guest players employed a variety floodpoain instruments often traditional to the culture of the compositions. See All Buying Options.

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The title, Floodplain, refers to the cultures situated around the kinds of river environments where civilization began, but which in recent history have become either marginalized into poverty or have become the loci of debilitating political turmoil, including the present day Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Israel, and North India. We hear Arabic musical forms from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, as well as an unusual African-influenced lullaby from Iran, that provide challenges of less familiar, different scales and quarter tones.

Audio CD, May 19, "Please retry". Alim Qasimovstring arr. Once again, they've pushed boundaries to produce a disc that stretches, excites and inspires the senses.