Dear midos, recently I read an album review on Jamshied Sharifi “One” which either have known Jamshied or his album “One” (truly speaking!). But from the review I had a great insight of the album. Reviewer Lou Novacheck has mended his words with all his love for this cd yet he has analyzed greatly. Here are the excepts from the review.
The first few notes of the first cut, also the title cut, made me do a double-take, making me check that I’d put the correct CD on. The first few seconds sounded decidedly Japanese, with a soaring female voice. After the surprise beginning, the tune settled into a distinct Middle Eastern melody. Abdoulaye Diabaté, a Malian dialy, or griot, uses his high tenor in spine-chilling vocals on this and other cuts….
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Sharifi is accompanied on the CD by Paula Cole, famous in her own right, and by Sussan Deyhim and Yungchen Lhamo, along with a multicultural host of others on a broad assortment of Western and Eastern instruments, as well as synthesizer. Lhamo’s voice is particularly well showcased on the first and final cuts, “Requiem,” which was written especially for “An Echoes Requiem for 9-11.” “Echoes” is a weekly syndicated program of ambient and New Age music, and the program was broadcast shortly after the attack.
This CD is a blend of instruments and voice, in a commingling that defies description at times. The instruments are a broad range from all parts of world; the mundane and ordinary such as sax and clarinet, to the exotic, including the oud, talking drum, kora, dumbek, bombo, bougadoubou, and caxixi. The different languages, the instruments, the synthesizer and the voices are all brought together in a texture and feeling as mellifluous and soft as your favorite cuddly blanket on a bitterly cold winter night.
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