Tokyo, 5 January, /AJMEDIA/
A music album of “Balaban-Mysterious Musical Heritage” has been released with the financial support from the Fund for Support to Azerbaijani Diaspora.
The project is designed to promote Azerbaijani music culture, history, folk and composer songs, as well as national musical instruments. The project managers are talented Balaban performer living in Turkey Alafsar Rahimov, doctor of musical arts, professor Jamila Hasanova, while music editor of the project is Hilal Beyazit, producer is PhD in Art Science Vugar Humbatov and designer is Kamran Najafov.
The album also contains information in English about the traditional musical instrument – balaban as well as performances included on the CD album.
Balaban is an ancient wind musical instrument of the Azerbaijani people. The word “balaban” consists of two semantic syllables: “bala” (small) and “ban” (voice), signifying the low voice that matches the timbre of the instrument. The balaban has great technical and artistic expressive features. Therefore, as the most versatile instrument, it is widely used in various orchestras, ensembles, as well as in solo performances during festivals and weddings.