“Palma”
Zhubin Kalhor
Palma is not just a word, it is a travel of victory.
A travel through the history with humanity and beyond. Beyond any war and peace, all around the world adapting and living in and out.
Changing the colour, the shape and the size but keeping the roots alive.
Palma is in our hands
Palma is in our roots
Palma is in our dreams
“Today in Iran”
Zhubin Kalhor
Today in Iran is an Iranian contemporary art music solo album under the world ambient acoustic style.
It is an authentic point of view from an Iranian musician Zhubin Kalhor who plays Kamanche (fiddle) Daff (drum) Kaman (original fiddle invented by himself) to create a unique experiment for the listeners to bring them closer to what is happening in Today in Iran and to themselves.
There are 12 songs in this music album which is based on traditional repertoire with modern outlook.
“Ashem Vohu”
Zhubin Kalhor
Ashem Vohu
ashem vohû vahishtem astî
ushtâ astî ushtâ ahmâi
hyat ashâi vahishtâi ashem
Truth is the purest of all happiness and light.
Happiness is for whom that is pure
for the sake of the best truth.
راستی؛ نیک ترین خرسندی و روشنی است
خرسندی از آن کسی است که در جهت راستی است
That is the most ancient sacred verses ( Manthra ) in Iran from the time of pre-zarathustra, more than 4000 years.
This Manthra is composed using laws of Stoat Yasna (science of vibrations) and not mere philology meanings. Hence it is important to understand it’s esoteric meaning, message and thoughts (Mithra) to be passed while reciting the prayers.
Ashem Vohu is a Manthra to bring inner light, happiness, freedom, calm-mind, purity and truth to sing anytime in the day and night.
It’s a beautiful gift of wisdom by ancient era of Iran to the whole world.
“Śaranam”
Sattva Luz
Zhubin Kalhor
A peaceful Krishna love Manthra by Sattva Luz and Zhubin Kalhor.
Śaranam is sang and composed by Sattva Luz, Played and produced by Zhubin kalhor at Zhubin Kalhor Music production with beautiful sound of Flute played by Milind Date and heartwarming guitar by Ebrahim Alavi.
It is beautiful to chant and listen while relaxing, doing yoga or any of your daily activities.
“Mystic Garden”
Zhubin Kalhor
Growing up in a Garden as a child with so many beautiful fruitful trees and blooming flowers is the Idea behind the Mystic Garden where every Sufi and Zen masters have stories. They reach to the realization of inconstancy with the change of climate and time.
Mystic garden is all over the world, timeless and placeless to see the youth and senility, death and being born again.
“Shadows”
Zhubin Kalhor
Omid Farhoodnia
Farshid Sharif
Shadows is a contemporary and modern art music blending Kamanche from east with bass and drums from the west to break the patterns and forms yet being connected to the mystics who were always ahead of their time.
We meet beyond any templates and boundaries to reach to a new space which is the shadows. It exists but you can’t touch it, it exists but you can’t listen to it. You can just feel it.
“Himalaya”
Zhubin Kalhor
Bikramjit Singh
Himalaya with its highest peaks on earth is not only the source of power and energy on our planet but it shows no boundries spreading in different countries. Watching the mountains next to each other we learn that we are stronger together.
Zhubin Kalhor and Bikramjit Singh come togethere with different background to create this album blending Himalayan breeze with powerfull spirit of nature and music.
“La yave de mi kaza”
Kedem Ensemble
Home is a place that human being creates to feel secure and peaceful but not always remain the same as we expect it to be. Through history and from books to movies even today we see a lot of migrations forced by the outside sources like the political, religious, cultural and nature power. Jews, Persians and Africans were always part of this forced migrations and even Rumi himself was forced to migrate with his family from Balkh to Konya by the Mughals invasion of Persia in 12th century. Some of the people who migrated keep they keys of their houses all their life hoping to come back home one day but that day will never comes and sometimes even they know it. La yave de mi kaza mainly is the music and story of Spanish Jews (speaking Ladino) whom they were forced to migrate.
Kedem Ensemble (Omri Hason : Percussions , Talya Solan: Vocal, Antonello Messina: accordion, Zhubin Kalhor: Kamanche and Kaman)
“Call Of The Mystic”
Bahramji
Maneesh De Moor
feat. Zhubin Kalhor, Sudha,
Bashir and Sirus
There are so many elements that make a music album so successful like “Call Of The Mystic”. The energy behind the project started with Sangit Sirus (oud) , Zhubin Kalhor (Kamanche & Tombak) and Bahramji (Santur, Ney and Vocal) recording in Goa acoustically was discovered by Maneesh De Moor. He started to produce it with electronic sounds which followed by more recordings of Zhubin Kalhor playing Setar on Dreamcatcher & Crazy Heart and more, Vocal and Santur by Bahramji, Tombak by Bashir and Vocal by Sudha. It took a long time from beginning to the final mastering and at the end released by Blue Flame Records world wide under the name of Bahramji and Maneesh De Moor feat. Zhubin Kalhor, Sudha, Bashir and Sangit Sirus. It was immediately a hit and loved by people around the world being in so many compilations like Buddha Bar and TV productions.
Vibrant Silences
Amareesh Leib
feat. Zhubin Kalhor,
Amano Maneesh,
Pt. Hindraj Divekar and
Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia
Amareesh Leib was always rebel in music, he started a movement of mixing India classical instruments with electronics like the flute of Pandit. Hariprasad Chaurasia in many electronic music. In the beginning it was criticized by some Indian community but later on it was a new door to a new world for them that created so many other music and genres for them. Vibrant Silences was another brave production by him to bring out the unknown part of the participated musicians to the recording and create a sound scape that was unique in that time specially.
Any musician would think it is impossible the way he was directing but the outcome was a new discovery. Even it took a long time to realize what he was doing because he was talking a lot and people would understand a little.