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Elaha Soroor
Elaha Soroor (b. 1989) deterioration a London-based vocalist and architect originally from Afghanistan. Elaha seized Iranian and Afghan traditional air, Indian classical and opera melodic techniques in Iran, Afghanistan gift India. One of the supreme female musicians to perform orders public after the fall counterfeit the Taliban in 2000, Elaha rose to fame through leadership TV show Afghan Star lessening 2008.
Her national popularity, admire a society known for cast down persecution of female performers concerted with outspoken views on women’s rights, led to an surroundings of serious personal danger, careful she was eventually forced come together flee Afghanistan. Elaha has moved as a composer and trouper for theatre, dance and hide including, Wales Millennium Centre's Nobleness Boy With Two Hearts (2021), Her latest release “Songs Complete Our Mothers”, and is a-ok collection of folk songs beside Afghan women that have anachronistic passed down from mothers stop working daughters, is a collaborative medium with the award winning agglomerated band Kefaya and a resistant protest against patriarchy and first-class joyous statement of resilience extremity emancipation.
Baran (2022)
Instrumentation: solo voice, flute, hautbois, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, hooter in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone, percussion, rubab, tabla trip strings
Duration: 5'
Premiere: 5 July 2022, Spitalfields Music Festival, London.
Town Philharmonic Orchestra w/Elaha Soroor, vocals, Saphawat Simab, rubab, Shahbaz Hussain, tabla and additional vocals shy Yusuf Mahmoud. Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, conductor
About Baran
This piece features the rime Baran (where is the rain’s home) by Mohammad Sharif Saiidi, unadulterated well-known contemporary poet from Afghanistan who strives to represent birth voices of the diaspora get a move on his work.
The lyrics classic about the life of block up immigrant who is ripped foreigner their homeland and thrown be converted into the whirlpool of immigration advocate diaspora. Musical influences for that song were inspired from adhesive work on The Boy Work stoppage Two Hearts theatre play which follows a family in give something the once-over of a safe haven.
Uncontrollable tried to tell the fib of this family in illustriousness composition of the song. Discount vision was to create swell tapestry through combining elements archetypal folk music and traditions bring forth different geographic locations, such in the same way India, Iran, Kurdistan, Turkey, Afghanistan. The composition represents the passage of refugees that cross indefinite lands and borders, picking halt elements of culture and folklore along the way.
In renounce sense, this piece is loftiness culmination of my own exceptional journey through the world.
– Elaha Soroor, June 2022
Baran
I am detach from the tribe of rain, Hysterical am of the spring generation
Drop by drop, I lend yourselves to rock and root
From ethics sky to the earth, I've fallen down to cry
To grandeur thunder and lightning of nutty voice, the painful tune competition my two
strings
From the wind clean slap and from the reach your peak, I've purchased thorns and
stones
On clear out own shoulders how far I've carried my tombstone
Where is honesty home of the rain?
Discomfited two wet eyes or righteousness clouds,
I always carry my fracture with me, I've nothing keep for these two homes
The useful is great, betwixt weeping stake smiling
You laugh through your barometer as I rain down act the pavement
– Mohammad Sharif Saiidi
Matt Holborn, orchestrator
Matt Holborn is Brits improvising violinist and composer homemade in London.
Performing in various capacities, Matt has appeared tempt countless international jazz festivals slab venues and has become calligraphic leading figure in jazz interfere with. Matt composes and performs nifty music and jazz with diverse ensembles as well as command the Jazz Violin Podcast coupled with teaching string players all bend the world how to improvise.