little freiburg music festival: music unites

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New ways of expressing sound and deeply felt inner sensation can be experienced during the second concert of this festival with fantastic sounds of the Kamancheh recital (Iranian bowed string instrument) in conjunction with oriental percussion. 

At first glimpse it might be surprising that the middle concert of this festival lets the listener travel back in time to totally different "sounds from afar" which in a superficial consideration are inspired by traditional Persian music but which will evolve a completely novel, even avant-guard like progressive form of art and sound.

Double stops on the Kamancheh, Paganini-like Pizzicato and Spiccato techniques which are embedded into rhythmical patterns that are extremely difficult to grasp. "Outrageous" things will be heard during this concert with exclusively original compositions by Misagh Joolaee.

Long lasting wanderings, inner disruption between pretended contemplation and indescribable restlessness:

Misagh Joolaee as one of the best and versatile Kamancheh performers of current time finds his way to the House of Culture.

Ways of sound and expression will be expanded an embedded into complex odd rhythmical cycles whose asymmetries evoke musical tension. Traditional conventions mutate into musical transformation and tonal breathing. A process which does not fit into the robe of conventional and well-tried symmetry and which blooms and talks within the world of oddness and unthinkable.

The musical heartbeat speaks by subtle and highly complex rhythms of oriental percussion:

Sebastian Flaig, originally from Freiburg and one of the world's top specialists for oriental percussion, found the key for rhythmical and expressive mirroring of Misagh Joolaee's worlds of sound. As a fabulous duo a complex multilayered form of expression is presented to the audience. Not least due to these aspects and characteristics this music was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schalplattenkritik in February 2020.

The contrast to Bach transforms more and more into a bridge between the times and cultures and becomes a symbiosis the more the listener dives into this world of sounds from afar and discovers the following astonishing analogies between Bach and this music rooted in Persian music:

Not only the number 12 in both musical systems (12 semitones in Bach's music / European classical music and 12 dastgahs [modes] in the music of Misagh Joolaee) can be perceived as such an analogy but also the astonishing understanding that the association of each key in baroque music with a certain character / affect is valid in Persian Music as well in which each mode expresses a certain character / state of soul. 

Finally it can be experienced and discovered that both in Bach's music and in Persian music freedom is evolving out of strictness.