Djivan Gasparyan - Moon Shines at Night (2005)

"It can be both a blessing and a burden for a musician to embody a
universal mood or feeling. Take Armenia's Djivan (also spelt Jivan)
Gasparyan. Once heard, the plaintive sound of his duduk is
immediately identifiable. Half-flute, half-oboe, its mixture of
reediness and luminous breathiness evokes a piercing melancholy - a
sense of luxuriant, almost masochistic desolation - that has been a
favourite with soundtrack composers from Gladiator to Hotel Rwanda.

While this must have done wonders for his bank balance, it has also
obscured his importance both as an innovator and a traditional
musician with more than 50 years of concert experience.

Described on its first release in 1992 as "one of the most beautiful
albums ever made", Moon Shines at Night teases folk melodies into
semi-improvised rhapsodies, with multi-tracking drawing out an
extraordinary array of sounds. Incorporating fragments of live
performance, it builds into a seamless stream of consciousness that
is at once ineffably mournful and strangely uplifting."
Mark Hudson

Track listing:
1 Lovely Spring - 4:27
2 Sayat Nova - 4:38
3 7th December 1988 - 4:05
4 Don't Make Me Cry - 5:07
5 You Have to Come Back to Me - 3:01
6 Tonight - 2:57
7 They Took My Love Away - 5:05
8 Moon Shines at Night - 5:16
9 Apricot Tree - 10:31
10 Mother of Mine - 4:04

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