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A Thousand Butterflies

A Thousand Butterflies Classical

A Thousand Butterflies

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Aftab Darhi: a distinctive voice that combines her classical music training with the diverse influences of her native Iran. A Thousand Butterflies is a portrait album that looks back on Darhi's eleven-year journey as a composer and tells of a life - hers - that has crossed continents. "Each piece on this album tells a part of my life that has taken place in every corner of the world," shares Aftab Darhi, whose music draws on a wide variety of styles. She presents works for a variety of instruments and electronics on her debut album. "When I compose, I don't think about style," Darhi says. "It's not that logical, it's not very calated. It's more by instinct. My music is not just Persian music - it's much more than that: it's an approach to being." Sahar (Dawn) opens Darhi's album; it is the most recent composition on the recording. Based on a traditional melody from the Kermanshah region, traditionally played at dawn as a morning wake-up call, Aftab Darhi has written Sahar, a work for cello that uses traditional Persian playing techniques. Originally, this melody was heard on the sorna - later it was also played on the tanbur and mixed with vocals. A live recording of a performance by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet in Stockholm during the Corona period follows: Hidden Dream is vivid, telling of journeys, hopes, dreams. The following work A Thousand Butterflies, namesake of the album ties in with dreams and hopes: The piece for clarinet and piano is inspired by the experience of immigration, recalling those people who daily leave their homes forever: "In my imagination, thousands of men and women fly toward a better future," Aftab Darhi says. In each of the three movements, she looks at immigration from a different perspective, conveying to us listeners the diversity of experiences and feelings of immigrants.
Product details
Release Date:
2022-07-22
Publication Date:
2025-10-09
Publisher:
30m Records / Indigo
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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