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Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani

         DELÂSHENA

                  PRESS BOOK

                                                                  © Graphisme : J. Hierolzer / Photo : M. Despiau / Calligraphie : S. Baraki

Album published on 18 mai 2018 by buda musique
            distribution : socadisc

                         MCE Productions
      5 rue Méolan 13001 Marseille France / 00 33 4 91 37 86 89
           www.mceproductions.org / www.delashena.com
DELÂSHENA PRESS BOOK Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani - Delâshena
Artistic direction and arrangements :
                                                       Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani

                                                       14 titles (50’18)

                                                       Shadi Fathi : setâr, shourangiz, voix (#1 et #14), daf (#9 et#11)
                                                       Bijan Chemirani : zard, daf, udu, percussion, saz (#1)
                                                       Sêtar and shourangiz played on this disc were created by Hossein Cheraghi

                                                       Album recorded in January 2018 at the Durance Theater studio
                                                       (Château-Arnoux) and Studio Nerves (Salon de Provence) by Fred Braye and
                                                       Jean-Michel Bouillot.

                                                       Mixage > Fred Braye - Studio La Limite (Bruxelles)
                                                       Mastering > Raphaël Jonin
                                                       Advice to the realization > Bruno Allary

                                                       Pictures > Muriel Despiau
                                                       Calligraphy > Shabnam Baraki
                                                       Artwork > Johann Hierholzer

Musical cultures sometimes take on unknown brilliance far from their source of nourishment. The meeting in
Marseille in 2016 between Shadi Fathi and Bijan Chemirani is part of this kind of precious spark, a setting in fertile
dialogue on the peaks of Persian music. Born in Tehran, Shadi Fathi trained with Ostad Dariush Talai, grand mas-
ter of Persian learned music, before becoming an exceptional soloist with his virtuosity in setar and shourangiz,
traditional string instruments. Bijan Chemirani has become a reference for zarb, an ancestral percussion Iranian,
alongside his father but also over multiple projects from France.

The duo presents today his first album, where classical inspirations and contemporary flashes are mixed in a
rhythmic abundance conducive to improvisations, enlightened by readings of Persian poems, from Mowlana
Rumi to Sohrab Sepehri. A delicate conversation led with a sublime mastery.

Practical information >
Album published on May 18, 2018 by Buda Musique - Distribution Socadisc

                                         www.delashena.com
                                            A CD produced by MCE Productions
         with the support of Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Fonds pour la Création Musicale
         Direction of production : Claire Leray assisted by Marianne Larcheron, Virginie Larrat and Anne Berron
DELÂSHENA PRESS BOOK Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani - Delâshena
Le souffle de lumière, le tremblement concentré
                   qui émane de certaines rencontres
                  contredit parfois sa propre brièveté
                 et s’étend comme une lente alchimie
                             sur tout le reste de la vie.

                           Posséder ainsi pour toujours
                     quelque chose que l’on n’eut jamais
                               et que l’on n’aura jamais,
                       change la condition de l’homme,
                                    modifie ses limites.

                         Les mains se touchent parfois
                        et parfois n’y parviennent pas.
                             Mais les yeux se touchent
            ou quelque chose qui est derrière les yeux.

                     Mais posséder ainsi, toucher ainsi,
                       réduit encore un coin d’éternité
    et le fait tenir dans la cellule que nous occupons.

        C’est peut-être là qu’est la sagesse de l’amour,
                sauvée des incendies qui le dévastent.

D’après un extrait de la Douxième poésie verticale de Roberto Juarroz
DELÂSHENA PRESS BOOK Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani - Delâshena
A conversation at the apogee of Persian music

  At the outer edges of Persian music, beyond the canonical repertoires
  so patiently inculcated and eruditely taught, the musical conversation
  between Shadi Fathi and Bijan Chemirani sparks a dialogue with
  classical inspirations and contemporary flashes. A paragon of rhythmic
  flourishes and fertile improvisations.

  This first album plunges the listener into an intimate and disconcerting
  universe. Disconcerting like these regions that we think we know
  but that we are constantly rediscovering. To go there is to accept to
  abandon oneself and to resign oneself to unanswerable questions:
  to accept the guidance of that disturbing perception of a territory at
  once familiar and unknown. A sonic landscape that “only the heart
  recognizes”. Literally: Delâshena…

  This creation darts about like a poetic journey through the history and
  geography of an imaginary land, a Hitchestan, country without name
  and without history, title incipit of the album where the aerial voice of
  Shadi and Bijan’s percussions are tamed, where the strings of the sarar
  and the saz are delicately woven. The aphorisms of the contemporary
  Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri settle there and resound like words of
  welcome…

  Delâshena unfolds in 14 musical pieces mapping the emotions of this
  unique territory. In a literary echo to Persian mysticism, we wander
  through flowered gardens of the soul in the titles Golnoush or
  Golafshân. We cross great open spaces in Azadi, we embrace the festive
  celebrations of Yalda (the birth of the Sun), we celebrate the seasons
  with Rang-eBahâr (Colours of Spring) or the traditions of Shâbâsh (the
  gift of money during holidays ). Delâshena unfolds in 14 musical pieces
  mapping the emotions of this unique territory. In a literary echo to
  Persian mysticism, we wander through flowered gardens of the soul in
  the titles Golnoush or Golafshân. We cross great open spaces in Azadi,
  we embrace the festive celebrations of Yalda (the birth of the Sun),
  we celebrate the seasons with Rang-eBahâr (Colours of Spring) or the
  traditions of Shâbâsh (the gift of money during holidays).
DELÂSHENA PRESS BOOK Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani - Delâshena
Flirting with boundaries, playing with the codes of classical Persian
music, the duo bewitches laymen and surprises purists. Rolling out,
for example, a shourangiz solo by Shadi on Maqâm-e Saba, in a style
— Saba — which is not Iranian at all, having its origins in Ottoman and
Arabic music. Then running on to Khorasan — named after a historic
region of North-Eastern Iran — quintuple-time rhythms, typical of this
region… Disoriented variations, wandering and freed from canonical
rigidity, not in a challenging way but, on the contrary, in a respectful
tribute to these secular traditions.

Delâshena, what the heart recognizes, naturally encounters the rocky
peaks of love. In the beloved face (Tchéhreyé Djân), in the shared or
the neighbouring (Hamsâyeh) and in its sinuous accession, as in the
final Nemidâmam, picking up on the Sufi poetry of Jalâl ad-Din Rûmî
recited by Shadi and transcended by Bijan’s percussive phrasings with
mesmerizing evocative power.

Delâshena is the cross between the compositions of two artists with
very different backgrounds, a hybridization that is rooted in classical
Persian music but which follows its own course to irrigate unexplored
lands. This flow of ineffable melodies and whirling rhythms indicates
a complicity between the two musicians that can not be invented.
Bigger than the two of them, this complicity becomes an independent
entity. Like an invisible heritage.

Perhaps this is because Shadi’s great master, Ostad Dariush Talai,
played with Bijan’s father, Djamchid Chemirani, in memorable concerts
in the 1970s. Perhaps this transcendent heritage
has continued despite the distance between Iran and France. Perhaps
Shadi and Bijan are the beneficiaries of this encounter. Perhaps
Delâshena is all that: everything that the heart recognizes, this elusive
poetry, without time, without continent…
Shadi Fathi
 Biography
© Muriel Despiau

                   Virtuoso of the Set’r, long-necked lute, Shadi Fathi perpetuates the ancient heritage of classical
                   Persian music with a long-time concert experience (she made her first solo appearance in 1992 at
                   the age of 15) and a brilliant sense of improvisation. Disciple of the great master Dariush Talaï in
                   Tehran, she also masters traditional stringed instruments such as the Tatr or the Shourangiz and
                   dazzles with her sensitivity on digital percussion such as the zarb or more particularly the daf,
                   with a playing style following the tradition of the Ghâderiyeh Brotherhood of Iranian Kurdistan.

                   Based in France since 2002 and returning regularly to Iran, she is an artist who celebrates a
                   musicality rich with European and Mediterranean aesthetics, collaborating frequently on disc and
                   on stage (600 performances since 2009) and nourishing her imagination with the language of the
                   Persian poet Hafez or that of the contemporary Argentinian Roberto Juarroz as much as with the
                   writings of the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami or those of the French painter Henri Matisse.
                   With these tutelary inspirations, she weaves a tenuous thread which lays bare beauty with a
                   stroke, a word, a look or a note, and contains in infinite detail the power of universality. Her music
                   navigates those living sources that, according to Sufi poetry, show us the world in a drop of water.
Bijan Chemirani
                                                                                  Biography

                                                                                                © Muriel Despiau
Extending an illustrious family line, Bijan Chemirani was initiated in the delicate handling
of the ancestral Iranian zarb by his father Djamchid, a true institution and custodian of the
oral tradition of Persian music, and his brother Keyvan, with whom he forms the prestigious
Chemirani Trio. Born in France, the youngest of the family has over the years earned his
laurels as master of the tombak — the other name of zarb — before opening up new
approaches to Persian percussion by bringing his polyrhythms into Mediterranean repertoires.

Through working together with Ross Daly, Socrates Sinopoulos, Renaud Garcia Fons, Stelios
Petrakis, Juan Carmona, Amina Alaoui, and with the Oneira or Fora Bandit collectives, he
has enriched his musical universe by taming the resonances of the bendir and riqq but also
the refined melodies of traditional string instruments such as tas, saz or kamânche. And his
insatiable curiosity multiplied by an insatiable openness to the world has pushed him much
further, into eclectic adventures with the cellist Jean Guihen Queyras, the American jazzman
Chico Freeman, the rock guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay and even the English pop star Sting. An
extraordinary journey for an artist shaped by rhythmic explorations and poetic itineraries.
On Tour 2018
      1er juin 2018 ● 20h30 ● Cité de la musique (Marseille)

           2 juin 2018 ● 21h00 ● L’Église Haute (Banon)

16 juillet 2018 ● 17h30 ● Festival Là c’est de la musique (Avignon)

     10 NOVEMBRE 2018 ● 18h00 ● (Le Revest-les-brousses)

        7 décembre 2018 ● 20H30 ● L’éolienne (Marseille)

  9 décembre 2018 ● 17H30 ● Auditorium Jean moulin (Le Thor)

      BOOKING & LOCAL PRESS > Marianne LARCHERON
                                                 Contacts
                     MCE Productions
             diffusion@mceproductions.org
                   +33 (0)4 91 37 86 89
                www.mceproductions.org

              NATIONAL PRESS > Sèverine BERGER
                 Veev Com for Buda Musique
                   severine@veevcom.com
                     +33 (0)6 77 83 62 39
                   www.budamusique.com

     www.delashena.com
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