Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years
$20.00
Ava Shadmani is an Iranian violinist and curator bridging Persian musical traditions with contemporary collaboration.
Packaged in a digi-cardboard sleeve.
Through her vision as creative curator, Iranian violinist Ava Shadmani brings together composers and performers whose voices reflect both the depth of Persian lineage and the openness of modern collaboration.
Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years presents a musical landscape shaped by the intertwined history, poetry, and musical traditions of Iran and its neighboring regions. Traditional tunes from Baluchistan, Azerbaijan, and Iran’s diverse regional cultures appear not as artifacts, but as living currents that shape-and are reshaped by-modern compositional imagination. Modal systems, poetic imagery, and the expressive languages of instruments-whether violin, flute, cello, or piano-form a shared vocabulary through which the past is reheard in the present.
Across the album, Ava and her collaborators reveal music as a vessel for cultural memory: a space where longing, ritual, improvisation, and reinvention coexist. Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years ultimately turns inward, inviting listeners into a space where echoes settle into something felt rather than heard.
Tracks
- Mast-e Qalandar
- Three Folk Songs: I. Gole Pamchal
- Three Folk Songs: II. Bahare DelkashHoly Strength
- Three Folk Songs: III. Ayriliq
- Shemshâl II
- Mangåta No.5, Variations on Pıçıldaşın, Ləpələr: Theme
- Mangåta No.5, Variations on Pıçıldaşın, Ləpələr: Variation I
- Mangåta No.5, Variations on Pıçıldaşın, Ləpələr: Variation II
- Mangåta No.5, Variations on Pıçıldaşın, Ləpələr: Variation III
- Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years: I. Wake
- Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years: II. For the sun, who scattered into flight
- Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Years: III. From the field of night
