ShahMirza Moradi

Se-Pâ and Do-Pâ - Shahmirzâ Morâdi (Sornâ) and Rezâ Morâdi (Dohol).
Shahmirza Moradi was born in 1924 and lived in Dorood, Lorestan. In this country, a musician's craft usually passed down through the family. Musicians used to be and still are the guardians of the musical culture of Lorestan.
ShahMirza recounts : " ... In family like mine, the children are stepped into music from the earliest age. When I was still a child, I used to accompany my uncle AliReza Moradi who played the kamantcheh, on the tombak ; it was from him that I learned to play these two instruments. My father played the Sorna and was very well-knowned in Lorestan. Right from the start, it was my dearest wish to play the Sorna ; I used to go with my father to help him when he became tired at all that gatherings at which he used to play. In this way, my ear became accustomed and trained to the sound of Sorna, but at the time I wasn't strong enough to play this instrument. I was 15 when I began picking up the instrument, and I haven't put it down since."
ShahMirza very quicly took his place among the best sorna players and acquired great reknown throughout Lorestan. In 1971, he began radio work ; he then performed at the major cultural festivals in Iran, including those of Shiraz and Tehran. Thanks to the efforts of the Lor musician Ali Akbar Shekartchi, his first recordings were distributed in 1981 ; they enjoyed great success throughout Iran.
In 1991, ShahMirza performed at the Avignon festival (France) and in the autumn of the same year, his two successive concerts in the Chatelet Auditorium in Paris stunned the public and the press, who described him as the "Master of Breath".
His son, Rezâ Morâdi, used to accompany him on the dohol ; Reza is also an excellent kamantcheh player, an instrument that he learned from his father.
ShahMirza's technique which uses a prolonged and powerful breath - rare with this instrument - is a truly creative one. Even more surprising is the marriage of this power with creativity and the personnal innovations of the master. In fact, by its very construction, the Sorna is a limited instrument ; it is due to his technique and imagination that Shahmirza manages to perform all sort of variations and modulations.
The basic melodies (Magham-s) of Lorestan are short and sometimes repetitive ; to link up those melodies uninterruptedly and, above all, harmoniously, is a technical feat of which perhaps only ShahMirza knew the secret.
Master Moradi works represents now a kind of encyclopedia of the music of Lorestan.
He left us on the 14th of December 1997.

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[seanwal111111]

Watching this video helps me understand the Sorna more than if I'd listened to it on the radio. I still fail to understand the drumming, however. The music could've been a lot better with more inventive drumming

[rizepor]

For ShahMirza, master of Lori music, the rythmn must be fixed ans with very particular accents ; in fact, only his son Reza could accompany him. ShahMirza is playing with this fixity, the melodies are whirling and twisting around that fixed rythmn and the least changing will disturb the complexity of his improvisation. The thing I don't understand, is how come a musician can play so many melodies with just 3 or 4 notes : the answer is maybe that he is just a genious.

[opus88888]

@seanwal111111 Is this rhythm in 6/8?

[rizepor]

@opus88888 : first, the slowest rythm is 6/4, then when it changes to get quicker it is 6/8 ; of course, those 2 rythms have a very strong lori accent and you cant play these if you don't get involved with lori music for long.

[opus88888]

I have seen this video 20 times

[rizepor]

Bravo !

i'm lookin at it everyday.

[allenjalali]

Where is he..?????

What is going through his mind..?????

What is he remembering, or missing..????

Is he Here, or There, or perhaps Nowhere..???

This is what I call TRANCE in my dictionary..

He is not thinkin of killing...

He is not thinkin of More and More...

He is not thinkin of hurting.....

He is Present... Here and Now.... Nothing..

[mazoonee]

he has become the music

[parastu1001]

besiar ziba , lezat bordam ,,,, sepas

[JustinParizisViary]

i once saw a snake bite a snake charmer in the face for playing the sorna

[pipersue19]

i dig it! he must b dead right?

[opus88888]

I love the drumming of this video, it is very contemplative.

[pimp245]

it all depends on the different scales and rhythms if you look at kurdish music you will understand what im talking about in our scales we use a set of notes over and over again and we can make alot ofdifferent melodies from that