Yare Asemani - The Companion

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This musical project is a collaboration between Iranian musician Ali Akbar Moradi and Ulas Ozdemir of Turkey. The project presents the musical traditions of the very similar Ahl-e Haqq and Alevi-Bektashi belief systems, as well as Turkish, Kurdish and Iranian folk music in a colorful and energetic mix. The project has been conceived in a spirit of unity and brotherhood between two different peoples within the context of their common mystical music, played on the tanbur and baglama, instruments considered sacred in both Ahl-e Haqq and Alevi-Bektashi music

Ulas Ozdemir

Ulas Ozdemir, born 1976 in Maras in southeast Anatolia (Turkey). Completed primary, middle and high school in Maraş. He graduated from Yildiz Technical University Art and Design Faculty,Department of Ethnomusicology. During his high school years, he began collecting folk music with his father in Maraş province, which has a rich folk music tradition. During the same years, he began publishing articles on music. He has now published articles in many magazines,
newspapers and internet sites. He has participated in a variety of concerts in Turkey and abroad,as well as world music festivals such as the San Francisco, Sfinks and Brosella festivals.Performing on the traditional instruments of Alevi-Bektashi music, the dede sazi and ruzba,Ozdemir also has composed film scores and written arrangements that employ a broad array ofinstruments, with references to various music cultures in his country. Since 1997, Ulas Ozdemir has worked for Kalan Muzik as producer and production director

Ali Akbar Moradi

Ali Akbar Moradi, born in 1957 in Guran, is the leading tanbur player from Kurdistan, Iran. He is also a composer, teacher, and highly acclaimed master of the tanbur repertoire. Encouraged by his father and grandfather, he began to study the tanbur at the age of seven. He studied with masters, Sayyed Hachem, Sayyed Mirza Khafashyan, Sayyed Mahmoud Alevi, Darvishi, Allahmouradi Hamedi, and Sayyed Vali Hosseyni with whom he learned the mastery of the
instrument and the Kurdish repertoire. At the age of 15, he founded his first tanbur ensemble and began his touring career. By the age of 30, he had completed learning the entire 72 maqams (modes) of the Kurdish tanbur repertoire. He has toured the world with Shahram Nazeri and Kayhan Kalhor amongst others, as a soloist, and with his sons. He teaches tanbur in Kermanshah and in Tehran

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Yare Asemani - The Companion

“The Companion” is a joint album, recorded live, between composer, ethnomusicologist and producer Ulaş Özdemir and one of the greatest living masters of the Ehl-I Haq tanbur, Ali Akbar Moradi. Moradi and Özdemir’s collaboration was the result of an introduction by their fellow musician friend Yiannis Kanakis, and “The Companion” consists of recordings of concerts the duo played in Antwerp, Belgium in 2006. As the album’s repertoire virtually introduce the bağlama and tanbur to each other, the vocals - Moradi’s pieces by Mevlana and Özdemir’s songs of Aşık Meluli – lend a unique character to the album. “The Compaion” consists chiefly of improvisations of Alevi-Bektashi tunes and their counterpart in Iran, the Ehl-I Haq makams. The name of the album reflects Moradi and Özdemir’s philosophy and musical companionship as well as their collaboration in the many concerts they have played together. Following their concerts in Turkey and Iran, Moradi and Özdemir went on an American tour in 2008 at the invitation of the World Music Institute; the content of their concerts came largely from this album. Meeting with even greater enthusiasm than they expected, they continue to build bridges between Anatolia and Iran. Though the Turkish and Iranian people are close neighbors, they live unaware of each other, as if much farther apart. Still, they share the same core values. Drawing on these common values, “The Companion” continues to bring the music of these two societies together.

Ali Akbar Moradi: Tanbur, vokal
Ulaş Özdemir: Baglama, vokal

1. Mahjouri 7’05”
2. Awaz - Semah 5’54”
3. Rouh-Ol-Arvah 4’45”
4. Saile Ashk 3’13”
5. Ghatar, Khawkar Maqam 3’32”
6. Veddae Akhar 2’30”
7. Awaz – Delroba 5’06”
8. Yare Asemani (The Companion) 7’54”

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