Azerbaijani-Western Music Synthesis
This is from my time in Azerbaijan. For Republic Day last year, I collaborated with two local musicians and music teachers, twins Sevindik and Sarvan, to create a medley of Western and Azerbaijani songs. (The “Oh Susanna” bit was their idea — the melody was familiar to them, but they’d never heard the words.) The distinctive stringed instrument you hear is called the tar, played by Sevindik muallim (“tar” means string in Persian, and you can note the importance of this root in the words “guitar” and “sitar,” among others). The pictures in this slideshow are a mixture of shots from my time in Azerbaijan; the first and last shots are of us performing this!
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