Rembrandt Frerichs Trio, Mohammad Motamedi - Intizar (2023) [24-192]

Artist: Rembrandt Frerichs Trio

Title: Intizar

Year Of Release: 2023

Label: Just Listen Records

Genre: World, Folk, Jazz

Quality: FLAC; 24-bit/192kHz + booklet

Total Time: 55 min

Total Size: 1.86 GB



Mohammad Motamedi - vocals

Rembrandt Frerichs - piano, fortepiano & organ

Tony Overwater - violone & double bass

Vinsent Planjer - whisper kit & percussion

Myrthe Helder - violin

Maya Fridman - cello

Maarten Ornstein - clarinet



Tracklist:

1.01 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Intizar (5:47)

1.02 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Az Khoune Javanan (5:52)

1.03 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Bahare Delkash (5:44)

1.04 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Kouze Gar (8:28)

1.05 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Dami Ba Gham (5:54)

1.06 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - In the Middle of the Garden (15:25)

1.07 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - An Advice From Hafez (5:12)

1.08 - Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - Leila Khanem (3:25)



The adventurous Rembrandt Trio releases a third album on which they collaborate with an Iranian musician; this time they push their musical boundaries with vocalist Mohammad Motamedi. Born out of a special friendship, improvisation is the guiding principle.



Motamedi, a celebrated singer in Iran, is a masterful improviser and has a head full of Iranian

poetry - he gets inspired by the mood of the music and then chooses a poem to improvise freely over it. This album contains pieces that fit the more spiritual, traditional Persian repertoire, with texts by Hafez and others, as well as a number of more worldly songs on which the trio is joined by violin, cello and clarinet.



Recorded in hi-res audio in a former church, the tracks have a crisp and lifelike quality. Motamed’s unrivaled vocals are matched with rare instrumentation; Rembrandt Frerichs plays old church organs and antique fortepianos, Planjer a whisperkit and Overwater a violone. The collaboration between the Rembrandt Trio and Motamedi becomes an adventurous journey through the colorful Persian musical landscape, where musicians from different continents find a shared language in music and improvisation.