Persiennes from Iran
The new meeting of five musicians, Aïda Nosrat, Sogol Mirzaei, Christine Zayed, Marie-Suzanne de Loye and Saghar Khadem, gave birth to a corpus of re-arranged Iranian songs, symbol of the heritage of their personal and rich trajectories, full of diversity: traditional Iranian, Arabic, flamenco, jazz and baroque music. The tar, the qanun, the voice, the viola da gamba and the percussions are united here to resonate the Persian poetry of the 19th century but also new compositions.
Their first album has been released in the fall of 2020 on the Accords Croisés label.
With the support of SPEDIDAM.
In the press"De légères modulations en vive colorations, la voix vibrante d'Aïda Nosrat traverse avec superbe les savants et chatoyants entrelacs musicaux. Aux chansons s'ajoutent des instrumentaux au diapason. D'une ardente sensibilité, aussi raffiné au niveau des harmonies que des mélodies, l'ensemble envoûte tout du long."
" Ainsi rénovés, les vieux chants de cour et les mélopées d'antan se parent d'un lyrisme inédit. "
" Un songe musical dont on rêverait désormais d'entendre la translation scénique. "
" Un très beau disque permettant d'accéder de façon inédite et assez aisément mais sans concessions occidentalisantes, à la culture persane multi faces d'aujourd'hui. "
" I'm often frustrated by the many talented female Iranian musicians, particularly instrumentalists, who don't get the exposure they deserve, either in Iran or outside. So this debut album from the new Paris-based all-female group Atine is very welcome "
