On the 7th and 8th of November, Rudaki Hall hosted the music group “Chandmozrab’s Musicians”; A group headed by Armin Tabanakht and with the singing of Mojtaba Asgari, who, at the eleventh station of the “New Ways” project, performed the “Sahrkhani” concert, inviting the audience to hear a narrative of Iranian instrumental music and its connection with poetry and singing.
According to Saba According to the public relations of the Rudaki Foundation, this performance was based on a major part of the album “Sahrkhani” which was published in 2013, and during two nights, it presented a series of compositions by Armin Zabanakht, Arash Saidian and Haman Mansouri to the audience. A significant part of the performance poems was also selected from Shion Fomeni’s compositions so that contemporary poetry forms an important part of the identity of this program along with the instrumental music.
The program started with the introduction of Abu Ata by Arash Saidian, and later, pieces such as “Talar Tahani”, Abu Ata’s instrument and voice, “Leaf Dance” with Hijaz’s voice, Nahoft’s instrument and voice, and Nishaburak with Froud to Abu Ata were performed. In the following, the ballad “Khulot Kashom” with a poem by Omid Tabanakht, a duet of Oud and Tembak and the ballad “Nakajaabad” with a song by Master Parviz Meshkatian followed the musical atmosphere of the concert.
Afshari’s instrument and voice, the def duet and finally the ballad “Sahrkhani” were among the other parts of this program, which, accompanied by Mojtaba Asgari’s voice and instruments, presented a diverse collection of Iranian musical colors to the listeners.
In this performance, Armin Tabanakhet was in charge of the group and played the centaur, and Mojtaba Asgari accompanied the group as a singer. Nabil Yusuf Sharidavi (daf), Arash Saidian (oud), Haman Mansouri (tar), Milad Bayat and Siavash Taherian (fiddle), Amir Yarahamdi (nii), Amir Ali Lotfi (tar), Azad Jafari (bam tar), Elias Karimi (oud), Morteza Zarei (tambak) and Javed Davari (daf) were other members of the group of Chand Mozrab musicians.
Also, Hamidreza Nourbakhsh and Mozafar Shafiei were among the artists who watched the band’s performance together with Amir Abbas Satashgar, the vice president of artistic creations of Rudaki Foundation on these two nights.
“Sahrkhani” was the 11th experience of the “Tarez Tashe” project of the Rudaki Foundation; A project that aims to support new ideas and provide the opportunity to present different experiences in music, has provided a platform for the presence of various artistic groups and trends in Vahdat and Rudaki halls. The path that includes the music of the traditional and regional music to Western classical music and tries to expand the possibility of hearing new sounds and musical experiences.
Previously, performances such as “Trio + One”, “Don’t Sit Silent”, “Chargan”, “Sudden Songs”, “Nivak Ensemble”, “Dialogue” Orchestra, “Mitra Youth Orchestra”, “Saba Be Narrated by Sayeh”, “Eshgh Saadi” and “Pars Zameen Youth Orchestra” have been staged in the form of this plan in Vahdat and Rudaki halls.
