TRIO CHEMIRANI / トリオ・シェミラニ / DAWAR - THE UNIVERSAL RHYTHM / CD

In 2015, harmonia mundi will launch Latitudes, a new series dedicated to ‘world classical music’. Just as in the recent decades there has been a new approach towards the early music and baroque repertoires, Latitudes will be dedicated to recording musicians who, though they operate within the framework of traditional music, bring a new light to their art. Not so much that they adapt traditional music instruments to world music rhythms; rather that they open the repertoire up in a way similar to avant-garde composers in the western tradition: their intention is not to challenge the musical traditions of their own countries, on the contrary, they wish to enrich it with their invention and endless creativity. Not only are they bringing something new, they are allowing us to find a new meaning in the universal quest for absolute artistic integrity and a poetic vision with universal appeal which reaches beyond the barriers of language and genre - an awakening! 40 years after his first solo recording for harmonia mundi, Djamchid Chemirani (born in Tehran in 1942) has continued to develop his career, aided by his two sons, Kevyan and Bijan. They have each nourished their craft as musicians by exploring a variety of sound worlds and introducing different cultural and life experiences to the mix. However, they always return to their common goal: to create a universal rhythmic language. Daw?r is the pinnacle of this journey; never have the Chemirani’s had such a limpid sound, born from the close fusion of their drum beats; it is through the jubilant awareness of the work they create together, that they achieve the spiritual transcendence so highly regarded within Iranian culture.