Current Project:
INSPIRED BY NATURE. SEVEN SOUNDS OF AZERBAIJAN
Baku, metropolis at the Caspian Sea, urban temptation of a rural society: Half of the 9 Millions Azeris is living here today. Though the city is situated in the East of the country for them it’s the West. The provinces in the real West they consider as their past.
It’s a illusion that determines the consciousness.
The Azeris are proud on the beauty of their country – but they don’t know it. Never they were in the jungle, saw the Gazelles of Shirvan or heard the mud volcanoes.
And they invite US-Stars to their traditional Jazz Festival, ignoring the Azeri scene that once constituted the image of Baku being Jazz capital of the Soviet Union.
This project brings back the scenic attractions and the nature-based Mugham-Jazz into the mind of the people. It follows saxophonist Rain Sultanov and his changing musicians on their search for inspiration through seven typical landscapes of Azerbaijan. Under extreme conditions they try to find the genius loci, make familiar with the living conditions of the rural people, improvise on instruments and transform pictures and sounds into musical sketches. Later, in the Oslo Rainbow Studio, with the support of legendary Jan Erik Kongshaug these ideas grew to the pieces of the album “Inspired by Nature. Seven Sounds of Azerbaijan”.
„Without the hurting sand storm on my face I wouldn’t have been able to make this music”, Rain Sultanov says.
The live performance of this music can be combined with the presentation of an one hour documentary about the project by German filmmaker Antje Dombrowsky.
Current Project:
INSPIRED BY NATURE. SEVEN SOUNDS OF AZERBAIJAN
Baku, metropolis at the Caspian Sea, urban temptation of a rural society: Half of the 9 Millions Azeris is living here today. Though the city is situated in the East of the country for them it’s the West. The provinces in the real West they consider as their past.
It’s a illusion that determines the consciousness.
The Azeris are proud on the beauty of their country – but they don’t know it. Never they were in the jungle, saw the Gazelles of Shirvan or heard the mud volcanoes.
And they invite US-Stars to their traditional Jazz Festival, ignoring the Azeri scene that once ...
