From Saba Alizadeh’s Bandcamp site:
“With “Nafir (Clamour)”, Tehran-based composer, kamancheh virtuoso and electronic musician Saba Alizadeh releases a strong artistic statement:
a heavy emotional new piece and touching video which depict metaphorically life in Iran after 5 months of uprising.“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times”
(Bertold Brecht)“Nafir” is the sound of a million outcries channeled through the ancient string instrument Kamancheh” says composer and musician Saba Alizadeh about his latest single. “It’s the voice of the shed tears and blood”.
His instrument, the Kamanche is said to be resembling the spectrum of the human voice, why he used it prominently in this piece as a metaphor for singing, for the gathered voices and cries of the oppressed, fighting against the darkness, the oppressor, here represented by the rhythm section.”
