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...translator was needed between Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov and the rest of the Silk Road Ensemble once they began playing together. When Qasimov, wanted to cue the other musicians to add new segments, he would mimic the motion of playing an instrument, and together the ensemble began smoothing the gaps between movements. In an age where everything seems to be inter-something (international, interdisciplinary, intercultural) it’s surprising that the world has not been blended into one big smudge. Although the Silk Road Project falls under the category of “inter...
...have to give yourself over to your collaborators and be willing to forget what you know. On this album, we were doing a piece of Mugam music from Azerbaijan with Alim Qasimov, an unbelievably great singer, and he says, "This is the way it goes. Now play!" Well, it wasn't written down, and every time we played it, it was different. So finally we just learned it the Azerbaijani way, by oral tradition. And we got something great...
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