Makoran Ensemble: Epics of Baluchistan گروه ساحل مکران استاد اسحاق بلوچ نسب

Eshagh Baluch Nasab: voice, tamburag
Ahmad Vatankhah: sorud
Haji Morad Jadgal: tamburag
Makoran ensemble performs a style called Shervândi which is very specific to the Makrân region : minstrel epic and narrative poems, combining measured and melismatic songs (zahirig) . This style is rightly considered as the highest and most complete manifestation of the baluch professional music. On the margins of the great epic, lyrical or religious poems, an epic singer (shervand, pahlavân or shergu) also sings Sufi ghazals in Persian. Shervandi requires a good vocal mastery and an extended register, the memorization of a large poetic and melodic repertoire, and a perfect knowledge of the modes zahirigs. As a result, epic singers are few in number, as are the Soroud players who can accompany them. They live only in Makran, on both sides of the border between southern Pakistan and Iran.