Label: Ocora C561025

1981年に名門Ocoraより2LPフォーマットで出版された、イランの音楽家であり声楽の達人Mahmoud Karimiと、イランのフルート奏者であり世界最古の管楽器の一つとされる葦の縦笛"ネイ”を演奏するMohammad Musaviによる連名アルバムの初CD化版。少なくとも300年に渡り師から弟子へと脈々と受け継がれてきた瞑想へと誘う歌唱法"ナヴァ"に合わせ、人と笛の息吹による強弱、またその反響が書家の筆の動きを想起させる素朴な"ネイ"の響きが完璧な調和を成す名盤。



Mohammad Karimi, master of singing, drew on the most authentic source of the radif (classical repertoire) to create an intimate expression far removed from any artifice, in perfect harmony with Mohammad Musavi's ney flute –a simple reed with immense power.

This is how M. Karimi illustrates the mode in which he has chosen to sing: “Navâ has a special beauty of its own. A mode with a sweetness, finesse and subtlety that plunges the listener into a state of meditation. Its melodies are among the most traditional, having been passed on for at least three hundred years from teacher to pupil right down to my own teachers, Davâmi and Hâjji Aqâ”.

Mohammad Musavi's reed flute (ney) also signifies the calligrapher's pen. There is indeed a way of emphasising a single note in a song as if it were a stroke, of echoing a fragment of it, of seizing on a motif and unfolding it in an arabesque, of organising its punctuation, which evokes calligraphy and illumination. At this point, two ineffable breaths remain: that of a man and that of a flute. But, as Mowlânâ Rumi suggests, are they not one and the same being?