Spot-the-Iranian-influence game can be tricky. I was browsing down some videos on Youtube and out of my right eye, I saw Yezd, which is of course Yazd. The band, which made this track is perhaps one of the best death metal bands in the whole world. Mostly their music is Egyptian themed, but in this case, Iranian inspiration snook in. About this track, he writes that this [...] instrumental has a fascinating tale. I was listening to some CDs an Iranian friend had sent me, and was quite intrigued by a particular CD of some music from the northern Khorosan region of Iran. The CD featured a musician named Ostad Mohammad Hoseyn Yeganeh. He sings and plays an instument called the dotar, a two stringed Persian lute of ancient origin. The Dotar is tuned in fourth of fifth intervals and the frts are placed in a chromatic scale of twelve semitones. It is a perfect instrument to accompany folk songs. Another instrument suc has the tanbur (which has genrally a higher pitched sound like the Iranian setar) or perform solo pieces of the classical repertoires (the Uzbek / Tajik Shash MAqom or the Uighur Onikki Maqom).The technique for playing the dotar consists of plucking the strings without a plectrum, following a descending repititition of notes (tremolo). Often, in order to fortify the fingers, they are soaked in henna. The left hand at the same time needs much strength and dexterity to perform on the long neck of the instrument (particularly on the Uzbek / Tajik and Uighur dotars). The thumbs of the left hand is also sometimes used to create more colorful atmosphere by using octave, fourth or fifth intervals on the second string.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:26:50 +0000
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