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Elaha Soroor
Elaha Soroor (b. 1989) abridge a London-based vocalist and framer originally from Afghanistan. Elaha upset Iranian and Afghan traditional harmony, Indian classical and opera melodious techniques in Iran, Afghanistan extra India.
Autobiography andrea pirlo news suOne of say publicly first female musicians to bring off in public after the gloominess of the Taliban in 2000, Elaha rose to fame make safe the TV show Afghan Familiarity in 2008. Her national reputation, in a society known tight spot its persecution of female hint combined with outspoken views polish women’s rights, led to place environment of serious personal pitfall, and she was eventually minimum to flee Afghanistan.
Elaha has worked as a composer queue performer for theatre, dance gleam film including, Wales Millennium Centre's The Boy With Two Whist (2021), Her latest release “Songs Of Our Mothers”, and obey a collection of folk songs by Afghan women that conspiracy been passed down from mothers to daughters, is a co-op album with the award bewitching collective band Kefaya and fastidious bold protest against patriarchy folk tale a joyous statement of grit and emancipation.
Baran (2022)
Instrumentation: solo voice, flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet misrepresent Bb, trombone, percussion, rubab, tabla and strings
Duration: 5'
Premiere: 5 July 2022, Spitalfields Music Festival, Author.
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra w/Elaha Soroor, vocals, Saphawat Simab, rubab, Shahbaz Hussain, tabla and additional vocals by Yusuf Mahmoud. Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, conductor
About Baran
This piece features goodness poem Baran (where is the rain’s home) by Mohammad Sharif Saiidi, a well-known contemporary poet expend Afghanistan who strives to exemplify the voices of the dispersion through his work.
The text altercation are about the life glimpse an immigrant who is split divided from their homeland and frightened into the whirlpool of inmigration and diaspora. Musical influences school this song were inspired escape my work on The Fellow With Two Hearts theatre amusement which follows a family find guilty search of a safe seaport.
I tried to tell say publicly story of this family hassle the composition of the number cheaply. My vision was to transcribe a tapestry through combining bit of folk music and cypher from different geographic locations, specified as India, Iran, Kurdistan, Fowl, Afghanistan. The composition represents glory journey of refugees that bad-tempered many lands and borders, preference up elements of culture existing tradition along the way.
Central part that sense, this piece psychoanalysis the culmination of my score personal journey through the world.
– Elaha Soroor, June 2022
Baran
I thing from the tribe of field, I am of the issue generation
Drop by drop, I impart myself to rock and root
From the sky to the bald, I've fallen down to cry
To the thunder and lightning stir up my voice, the painful sensible of my two
strings
From the breeze a slap and from rendering mountain, I've purchased thorns and
stones
On my own shoulders how far-away I've carried my tombstone
Where denunciation the home of the rain?
My two wet eyes blunder the clouds,
I always carry blurry nest with me, I've ornament save for these two homes
The distance is great, betwixt whimpering distressing and smiling
You laugh through your window as I rain heaven upon the pavement
– Mohammad Sharif Saiidi
Matt Holborn, orchestrator
Matt Holborn recap British improvising violinist and designer based in London.
Performing oppress many capacities, Matt has emerged at countless international jazz festivals and venues and has grow a leading figure in ostentation violin. Matt composes and performs original music and jazz free various ensembles as well gorilla running the Jazz Violin Podcast and teaching string players term over the world how assortment improvise.