{"product_id":"sgl24092-ejdeha","title":"Ejdeha","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSave 20% with the \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/product\/gordon-grdina-jazz-bundle-vol-1-dsd-bundle\/\"\u003eGordon Grdina DSD Bundle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eA must-have album for Jazz and World Music fans. \u003c\/span\u003eIn this set of original compositions, guitarist-composer Gordon Grdina performs on the oud, an ancestor of the European lute. The quartet, including bassist Mark Helias, cellist Hank Roberts and percussionist Hamin Honari, spin jazz improvisations over Near-Eastern musical forms. The recording presents the instruments with superb clarity.\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n- Mark Werlin, NativeDSD \u0026amp; All About Jazz\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" vancouver york project extends gordon grdina previous oud-centred fusions involving jazz improvisation and middle eastern music from his debut think like the waves with gary peacock paul motian to group haram. it also draws on vibe of more guitar-based new projects no difference featuring oud duets mark helias recent quartet as told critic stuart derdeyn last few years starting feel playing guitar are turning into same thing feels is looking outwards iraqi arabic stuff persian they all giving another viewpoint improvising. certainly jazzing has been going for decades abou-khalil anouar brahem not mention admed abdul-malik but avant-jazz background makes a very different result. marrow began trio hank roberts soon morphed addition canadian percussionist hamin honari. original compositions by mostly based classical modes quarter-tones well executed provides context creative interplay. intricate sometimes delicate other times high-risk exciting. there dark brooding excursions propelled vamps contrapuntally through-composed works that relate inroads. program includes two slow song-like explorations strings without percussion final piece vibrant toe-tapping tribute malian guitarist boubacar traore. title track farsi kurdish word dragon shows how adapts middle-eastern own purposes references dastgahs nava saba nahawand before resolving rast. personal musical practice developed taking off reins letting go try constrict than in conscious effort add ideas traditional language. this led staying completely within tonal modal or rhythmic constraints stretching them. i have still am working at hearing internalizing maqam dastgah order aspects them come about naturally fluidly just western improvisational already do. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" music:=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEjdeha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e extends \u003cstrong\u003eGordon Grdina\u003c\/strong\u003e’s previous oud-centred fusions involving jazz improvisation and middle eastern music, from his 2006 debut Think Like the Waves with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian to his Vancouver 10-piece group Haram. \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" vancouver york project extends gordon grdina previous oud-centred fusions involving jazz improvisation and middle eastern music from his debut think like the waves with gary peacock paul motian to group haram. it also draws on vibe of more guitar-based new projects no difference featuring oud duets mark helias recent quartet as told critic stuart derdeyn last few years starting feel playing guitar are turning into same thing feels is looking outwards iraqi arabic stuff persian they all giving another viewpoint improvising. certainly jazzing has been going for decades abou-khalil anouar brahem not mention admed abdul-malik but avant-jazz background makes a very different result. marrow began trio hank roberts soon morphed addition canadian percussionist hamin honari. original compositions by mostly based classical modes quarter-tones well executed provides context creative interplay. intricate sometimes delicate other times high-risk exciting. there dark brooding excursions propelled vamps contrapuntally through-composed works that relate inroads. program includes two slow song-like explorations strings without percussion final piece vibrant toe-tapping tribute malian guitarist boubacar traore. title track farsi kurdish word dragon shows how adapts middle-eastern own purposes references dastgahs nava saba nahawand before resolving rast. personal musical practice developed taking off reins letting go try constrict than in conscious effort add ideas traditional language. this led staying completely within tonal modal or rhythmic constraints stretching them. i have still am working at hearing internalizing maqam dastgah order aspects them come about naturally fluidly just western improvisational already do. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" music:=\"\"\u003eIt also draws on the vibe of his more guitar-based New York projects No Difference (2013), featuring oud duets with Mark Helias, and his more recent New York quartet (Inroads, 2017). As Grdina told critic Stuart Derdeyn, \u003cem\u003e“In the last few years it’s starting to feel like the oud playing and the guitar playing are turning into the same thing…It feels like [jazz is] looking outwards…Indian music, Iraqi music, Arabic stuff, Persian music: they’re all giving jazz another viewpoint on improvising.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" vancouver york project extends gordon grdina previous oud-centred fusions involving jazz improvisation and middle eastern music from his debut think like the waves with gary peacock paul motian to group haram. it also draws on vibe of more guitar-based new projects no difference featuring oud duets mark helias recent quartet as told critic stuart derdeyn last few years starting feel playing guitar are turning into same thing feels is looking outwards iraqi arabic stuff persian they all giving another viewpoint improvising. certainly jazzing has been going for decades abou-khalil anouar brahem not mention admed abdul-malik but avant-jazz background makes a very different result. marrow began trio hank roberts soon morphed addition canadian percussionist hamin honari. original compositions by mostly based classical modes quarter-tones well executed provides context creative interplay. intricate sometimes delicate other times high-risk exciting. there dark brooding excursions propelled vamps contrapuntally through-composed works that relate inroads. program includes two slow song-like explorations strings without percussion final piece vibrant toe-tapping tribute malian guitarist boubacar traore. title track farsi kurdish word dragon shows how adapts middle-eastern own purposes references dastgahs nava saba nahawand before resolving rast. personal musical practice developed taking off reins letting go try constrict than in conscious effort add ideas traditional language. this led staying completely within tonal modal or rhythmic constraints stretching them. i have still am working at hearing internalizing maqam dastgah order aspects them come about naturally fluidly just western improvisational already do. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" music:=\"\"\u003eCertainly jazzing the oud has been going on for decades (Rabih Abou-Khalil, Anouar Brahem, not to mention Admed Abdul-Malik), but Grdina’s avant-jazz background makes for a very different result.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Marrow\u003c\/strong\u003e began as a trio with \u003cstrong\u003eHelias\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHank Roberts\u003c\/strong\u003e but soon morphed into a quartet with the addition of the Canadian Persian percussionist \u003cstrong\u003eHamin Honari\u003c\/strong\u003e. The music, all original compositions by Grdina but mostly based on classical Arabic and Persian modes (many with quarter-tones, well executed by Helias and Roberts), provides a context for creative group interplay. The music is intricate, sometimes delicate, other times high-risk exciting. There are dark, brooding excursions propelled by middle eastern vamps as well as more contrapuntally through-composed works (“Wayward”) that relate to the music on Inroads. The program also includes two slow, song-like explorations for strings without percussion, and the final piece is a vibrant, toe-tapping tribute to Malian guitarist Boubacar Traore. The title track (Ejdeha is the Farsi and Kurdish word for dragon) shows how Grdina adapts middle-eastern modes to his own purposes, as it references the Persian dastgahs Nava, Saba and Nahawand before resolving on Rast.\r\n\r\nRegarding his own personal musical practice on the oud, Grdina feels that “this has developed more from taking off the reins and letting go, to not try and constrict the improvisation, more than in a conscious effort to add new ideas into traditional language. This has led to sometimes staying completely within tonal, modal or rhythmic constraints and other times stretching them. 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