Chahadé Saadé – Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi
April 14, 2007
Welcome. Finally, with a few minor trepidations, I’ve started an audio blog.
It’s been my philosophy that good music is best when it is shared. Of course, nothing beats that feeling, say, when you alone break open that box from Turkey or Indonesia, place the fragile platter on the turntable, only to feel your hair stand on end when the music begins. The feeling that you’ve never heard anything like this in your life; it transports you to a place where words are irrelevant. But part of that feeling is thinking how you’d want to share that with others, to have them feel exactly the same way.
Record collectors are eccentric people. I don’t even like the term “record collector.” They’ve been parodied far too many times. Accurately, I might add. But I could not live with myself as a “collector” without at least one person I could share sounds with. So, this blog is for my friends, and for you, stranger.
For the first installment, we have a beautiful oud solo which appears to have been recorded in Iran in the late 20s/early 30s. I lean towards the 20s, as it’s a 10.5” record. I’m not sure when that format ended for Odeon, but I doubt it was much later than the early 30s. According to reader “pm,’ is is a recording of the “kurdilihicazkar saz semai of the late 19th century Istanbul Armenian composer Tatyos Efendi.”
I could find nothing on the soloist, Chahadé Saadé, but regardless, the recording is quite nice.
Chahadé Saadé – Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi
