G.I.Gurdjieff's music-No 11/ Gurdjieff Ensemble/ tar, santur, oud, dap, tombak

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CD label: ECM records
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The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in 2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian with the aim of creating ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. The ensemble consists of leading Eastern folk instrumentalists in Armenia playing duduk, blul/nay, saz, tar, kiamancha, oud, kanon, santur, dap/daf, tombak and dhol.
Gurdjieff is known to many in the West as one of the major spiritual figures of the 20th century. His extraordinary musical repertoire was based on the music he heard during his journeys in Armenia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many parts of Central Asia, India and North Africa, where he witnessed a myriad of folk and spiritual music, rituals and dance traditions. Levon Eskenian has chosen and arranged those pieces that have roots in Armenian, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Caucasian folk and spiritual music for Eastern folk instruments.
Excerpt from Yerevan concert,Armenia,organized by Naregatsi Art Institute.
Levon Eskenian,artistic director
Davit Avagyan,tar
Vladimir Papikyan,santur
Aram Nikoghosyan,oud
Mesrop Khalatyan,dap
Reza Nasimi,tombak

[@PSearPianist]

Thanks for posting, and good luck with your very worthwhile project. I once took a holiday in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (in Soviet days!) largely because I wanted to see some of the places Gurdjieff had travelled in.

[@hara3435]

Wow! Thankyou so much, how very wonderful is this! 💜

[@dumitrudeciu8604]

beauteful song

[@AndreiaLira]

Gorgeous!!!!!

[@BE74297]

Lost a whole boxfull of books over a year ago, just remembered one: Meetings w/Remarkable Men... beautiful music from Gurdjieff's world.

[@DwightOtt]

Gurdjieff's musical octave is ascended.

[@reijo437]

This is how one should hear Gurdjieff - de Hartmann music. I like the piano music too, but somehow...

[@ViolaaltaGraz]

agreed