{"product_id":"aftab-darvishi-a-thousand-butterflies-4270001356604","title":"A Thousand Butterflies","description":"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.","brand":"30m Records \/ Indigo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53499675050326,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_4270001356604_1_73d2c323-079d-41dd-85be-f8e9beee6aa2.jpg?v=1778136886","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/aftab-darvishi-a-thousand-butterflies-4270001356604","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}