In the bookstore, A thousand and one music. A brief history of Persian music.
In the bookstore, for a few days, a yellow volume stands out, A thousand and one music. A brief history of Persian music, which fills a conspicuous gap in the Italian panorama of musical culture, since nothing exists similar to the hundreds of pages written by the great pianist Ramin Bahrami, today perhaps the greatest keyboard interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach's works, as demonstrated by the 17 CDs published with the English Decca, including recently a curious one Bach is in the air in duo with the jazzman Danilo Rea. Iranian by birth (in 1976 in Tehran), then he moved as a child to Italy and England and now domiciled in Stuttgart, he masters the language of Dante very well, to the point of already publishing five books, from 2012 to 2019, between musicology and popularization: How Bach saved my life, The sound of the West, Grandfather Bach, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart. The always young genius, Ludwig van Beethoven. The rebel genius.
Bucking, A thousand and one music it is a short text, but, like the previous ones, essential, documented, intriguing, undoubtedly, it fulfills «a debt of gratitude. unfortunately it is often confused with the Arab one and is not recognized for its Indo-European roots in common with Western culture ».
In the book Bahrami indicates, in dialectic with history, the salient moments of over a thousand years of Persian music, which, for example, range from the invention of the radiffs (the equivalents of ancient Greek modes) to an almost improvised use of rhythm capable of satisfying states of mind through continuous impromptu inventions.
Source: Il manifesto