David Dalle
Thursday December 12th, 2024 with David Dalle
30 for 30. The final album, with clarinetist Yom. Syrian Sufi music and clarinet with Kinan Azmeh.
Continuing the celebration of my 30 years on-air at CKCU with the final album from my list of 30 of the most significant albums in my musical evolution. The final entry is the 2014 album "Le Silence de l'Exode" from French clarinetist and self-described "musical nomad" Yom. His 6th album features an acoustic quartet with Yom on clarinet, Claude Tchaimitchian on doublebass, Farid D on cello, and Bijan Chemirani on Persian percussion. This composition, a fourteen part suite, was commissioned for a festival in 2014 in Paris with the theme of diaspora. Yom composed the work as a mystical introspection on the seminal Biblical event in Judaism.
I enjoy the clarinet. Mozart's clarinet quintet and concerto are at the pinnacle of his art. The clarinet is a great orchestral instrument and I enjoy it in Klezmer music, including Yom's earlier albums. But I did not expect this album. The suite begins quietly, with the bass and cello, and is joined by the clarinet intoning a slow, mournful melody which rises to a blistering, wailing intensity. The deep rumble of the daf joins and this unlikely quartet of instruments reaches deep in you, grabs your heart, grabs your gut and takes you on an hourlong ecstatic musical saga, leaving you transported. All this from just a clarinet. I did not expect this.
Here is the complete list:
The 30 for 30 albums heard so far:
1. Lustmord "The Monstrous Soul" Side Effects
2. Ludwig Van Beethoven/Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan et al. "Symphony No. 9" Deutsche Grammophon
3. Doudou N'Diaye Rose "Djabote" Realworld
4. Julius Eastman/Lutoslawski Piano Duo with Joanna Duda, Mischa Kozlowski "Unchained" Dux
5. The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar "Apocalypse Across The Sky" Axiom
6. Ustad Bismillah Khan & Party "Shehnai Recital" EMI India
7. Franz Liszt/Claudio Arrau "12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante" Philips
8. Ludwig Van Beethoven transcribed Franz Liszt/Cyprien Katsaris "Symphony No. 9" Teldec
9. Malek Masoudi "Mandir" Shahram
10. Shahram Nazeri "Aatash Dar Neystaan" Shahram
11. Kayhan Kalhor "Scattering Stars Like Dust" Traditional Crossroads
12. Goran Bregovic "Underground" Polygram
13. Kocani Orkestar "A Gypsy Brass Band" Long Distance
14. Misia "Garras Dos Sentidos" Erato
15. Goran Bregovic & Alkistis Protopsalti "Paradehtika" Polygram
16. Tabu Ley Rochereau "Muzina" Rounder
17. Kronos Quartet "Pieces of Africa" Nonesuch
18. Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko "New Ancient Strings" Rykodisc
19. Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra "Boulevard de L'independance" World Circuit
20. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party "Shahbaaz" Realworld
21. Sheikh Yasin Al-Tuhami "The Magic of the Sufi Inshad" Long Distance
22. Brave Old World "Blood Oranges" Pinorrekk Records
23. Alfred Schnittke/Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Gridenko, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Heinrich Schiff "Concerto Grosso No. 1" Deutsche Grammophon
24. Keith Jarrett "Vienna Concert" ECM
25. Shankar "Raga Aberi" Music of the World
26. Ghazal "As Night Falls On The Silk Road" Shanachie
27. Lubomyr Melnyk "Song of Galadriel" Bandura Records
28. Ludwig Van Beethoven/Sviatoslav Richter "Brahms/Beethoven" BMG
29. Anton Bruckner/Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez "Symphony No. 8" Deutsche Grammophon
30. Yom "Le Silence de l'Exode" Buda Musique
Honourable mentions:
These two albums were essential picks for my list, but I featured them in 2023:
Johann Sebastien Bach/The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner "Mass in b minor" Archiv
Ferrucio Busoni/John Ogdon "Piano Works" Altarus Records
These three albums were just squeezed out:
Charles-Valentin Alkan/Marc-André Hamelin "Concerto for solo piano" Music and Arts
Franz Schubert/Maurizio Pollini "The Late Piano Sonatas" Deutsche Grammophon
Musicians of the Nile "Luxor to Isna" Realworld
| Le Silence de l'Exode 1 - Ramses Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 2 - rouge Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 3 - révélation Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 4 - errance Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 5 - chaos Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 6 - sarab Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 7 - l'eau jaillie du rocher Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 8 - Sinai Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 9 - ivresse Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 10 - solitude 1 Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 11 - mémoires Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 12 - silence Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 13 - solitude 2 Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| Le Silence de l'Exode 14 - Moïse Yom - Le Silence de l'Exode - Buda musique |
| 2024 has not been a good year, but hope springs eternal. Recent shocking events in Syria have raised the hopes of most Syrians in and outside of Syria. The overthrow of Bashir al-Assad's despicable, murderous regime can only be a good thing. Syria's future is fraught with danger, but this sea-change offers the only opportunity for positive change for Syria. I sincerely hope that the extremely wealthy countries of Europe, as well as Syria's neighbours and the US, all of whom are highly motivated for the thousands of Syrian refugees to return to Syria, recall their history. Syria will need enormous help to become a peaceful, safe, and prosperous place. Support in rebuilding Syria would not just help Syrians, but the world.
We hear a clarinet concerto by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom. The 2017 "Adrift on the Wine-Dark Sea" takes its inspiration from two tales thousands of years apart, Homer's "Odyssey" and "A Hope More Powerful than the Sea" recounting the story of 19 year old Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel who was one of only 11 survivors of the tragic 2014 Malta migrant shipwreck which killed 500 migrants. She survived at sea for four days holding on to two infants who also survived. We also hear an incredible location recording from 1973 of a Sufi ritual in Aleppo at the Zawiya of Shaykh Ahmad al-Yamili. Most of the Zikr features the gorgeous, improvised singing of the munshid Muhhiedin Ahmed. This echoes the intensity and spirituality of "Le Silence de l'Exode" of the first hour. |
| Clarinet Concerto - Adrift on the Wine-Dark Sea Kareem Roustom/Kinan Azmeh, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Manuel Nawri - Uneven Sky - Dreyer gaido |
| Zikr Muhhiedin Ahmed and Rifa'iyya Sufis - Syria: Islamic Ritual Zikr, Aleppo - Unesco |
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2:04 PM, December 12th, 2024