Quieter Than Silence | Full Concert | Mehdi Aminian & Mohamad Zatari

Quieter Than Silence
November 2017 tour & Album launching

Mehdi Aminian & Mohamad Zatari
November 11 2017

Mehdi Aminian: Ney, Setar, Vocals (Iran)
Mohamad Zatari: Oud (Syria)
Leila Soldevila: Double Bass (France)
Behnam Masoumi: Tombak & Percussion (Iran)

You can find the album here:

Spotify: http://bit.ly/2rAel8d
Amazon: http://a.co/glUIpdR
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/42570441
Google Play: https://goo.gl/qAyHPs
Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/74742366
iTunes: http://apple.co/2s5rx8J
Carturesti: https://carturesti.ro/muzica/q....uieter-than-silence-

For more Info visit:
https://www.roots-revival.com/quieterthansilence


The line up is:

"Hezar Pareh" - 0:42
A composition by Mehdi Aminian inspired by Persian Chahar Pareh (A division in Persian Dastgah System)

Words by Hatef Esfahani (Year 1783)"

“You're lurking and have your arrow ready to shoot me, and I am anxious and sorrowful.
And all my anxiety is caused by the possibility of you missing the target!”



"Don't Go" - 6:22
Composed by Mohamad Zatari
Arranged by Both musicians

words by Rumi:

“Hidden as a soul, you enter through my heart!
O luster of my garden, you are my gracefully dancing cypress.
If you go, Don't go without me; soul of my soul, Don't go without body,
Do not depart out of my sight, O my blazing torch.”


"Falling Star" - 13:46
Composed by Mohamad Zatari followed by Ney and Double Bass duo Improvisation

"Chahar mezrab Dashti" - 20:00
A piece by Maestro Jalil Shahnaz
Arranged by Mehdi Aminian (Inspired by Kayhan Kalhor's interpretation)


"Oud Solo" - 24:07
Mohamad Zatari

"Madness before Silence" - 28:10
Composed by Mehdi Aminian

"A Shattered Beauty" - 33:40
An Old Syrian song (Hal'Asmar-ellon") reinterpreted and rearranged by Mehdi Aminian & Mohamad Zatari

Percussion Solo - 38:14
Behnam Masoumi

"How long?" - 44:06
A composition by Mehdi Aminian inspired by Ommar Khayam poem (1048 -1131):

"How long to spend in sorrow wondering if I have enough or not...?
And a life time wondering if I spend my living euphorically or not...
Fill up the goblet since It's not clear to me
This breath that I take in I take out or not... "
Ommar Khayam


"Lullaby for the travelling child" - 57:40
Composed by Mehdi Aminian
Arranged by both musicians

“My love, remain a kid,
The world will force you to grow.

My love remain a kid, you will be sick and tired of the world if you grow up.

It is so cruel that the moment you forget your childhood it turns you into a stone!”

Ahmad Shamloo


"October" - 1:04:26
Composed by Mehdi Aminian


Video: Liri Alienor Chapelan


"Quieter than Silence” is an international, multicultural, independent project of the Roots Revival Cultural Association.

"Quieter than Silence” was born from a story of friendship, beyond stereotypes and political conflicts, between an Iranian - Mehdi Aminian and a Syrian - Mohamad Zatari in Bucharest. The project grew, when Leila Soldevila Renault (France), Behnam Masoumi (Iran) and Zabih Vahid (Iran) responded positively to the invitation of the two to join them.

“Quieter than Silence” is rooted in Syrian, Persian and Sufi music cultures, applying various rhythmical and timbral elements throughout the process, which makes it a unique artistic repertoire hard to attribute it to particular geographical identity.

The ongoing conflicts around the world and the current tragedy in Syria in particular, existential, contemporary humans’ existential issues, mystic Sufi literature and poetry and the various musical traditions from around the globe are the main inspirations in this album and its new approach to composition, rhythm and melody. Musically, it is a synergy between different instruments including Ney, Setar, Oud, Kamancheh, Percussion, vocal and Double Bass.

"Quieter than Silence” is a dedication to the wandering Syrians in distress and grief. It is a form of compassion and a protest against all the noise in the world.

مهدی امینیان: نی, سه تار و آواز
محمد زعتری