Ten at Dreamland; Healing & Lineage

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1.	Taqasim Hammered Dulcimer 03:05		buy track
2.	Bat Kol (Echo) 04:34		buy track
3.	Samai Saba 09:59		buy track
4.	Ghulubt Asaleh Fi Ruhi (I Struggled to Calm My Soul) 12:29	info	buy track
5.	Tadini (You Hurt Me) 05:36	info	buy track
6.	El Mistater (Hidden God) 03:43		buy track
7.	Pesrev Bayati 06:26		buy track
8.	Invocation 02:36		buy track
9.	Refuah (Healing) 06:41		buy track
10.	A Wish 05:16	info	buy track

about

Ten at Dreamland is the first instrumental record from The Epichorus, recorded live, ten musicians in a circle at Dreamland, a church turned recording studio outside Woodstock, NY. Forces conspired for friends dispersed across three countries to convene for two days over the full moon of Virgo, summer 2018.

The idea for the record was to set original material against classics from diverse masters across the Arabic and North African traditions, so that you could hear how influences had been gathered, learned and honored. Old songs renewed in the transmission through the lineage. Ten musicians, ten tracks, roots and branches meeting.

And healing. In some of my circles, fluency in the old ways is slipping from our lips. Prayers, customs, languages, traditions are fading from communal memory. But we still understand music. Especially music without words. We hear a melody, and if it's good, it carries all the messages the ancients stored away for us in. Songs are spells, incantations capable of moving and realigning the soul, when we allow them to work us. The culture now is awakening to the need for healing, for individuals and communities. We’ve been rolled up into a culture that made little room for intimacy, honesty, vulnerability, brokenness, being open and exposed, interconnectedness. All prerequisites of healing. These melodies long for healing. The song that plays for you now, wherever you are, is stretching back into pasts I don’t know, into futures you can’t imagine, affecting healing.

credits

released December 12, 2021

Zach Fredman -- Composer, Oud
Megan Gould -- Violin, Arrangment
Daniel Ori - Upright Bass
Rich Stein -- Percussion
Philip Mayer -- Percussion
Max ZT -- Hammered Dulcimer
Zafer Tawil -- Qanun, Violin
Marandi Hostetter -- Violin
Uri Sharlin -- Accordion

with Bassam Saba -- Nay

Recorded by Ariel Shafir
Mixed by Jamshied Sharifi

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