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Placeless
Classical · 2019 · 14 tracks · 52m

Placeless

Kronos Quartet

A luminous collaboration setting Persian poetry to avant-garde strings. Intimate, spiritually resonant, and masterfully textured.

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It sounds like ancient Persian poetry being whispered through a modern string quartet.

A serene and spiritually grounded dialogue between ancient Eastern poetry and modern Western strings.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks · 52m
01
Placeless
3:15
02
My Ruthless Companion
3:20
03
My Tresses in the Wind
3:33
04
I Was Dead
3:15
05
Endless Embrace
3:48
06
Fate Astray
3:01
07
The Sun Rises
5:45
08
Vanishing Lines
5:29
09
The Might of Love
3:09
10
Far Away Glance
3:16
11
Leyli’s Nightingales
3:40
12
The Color of Moonlight
4:24
13
Lover, Go Mad
3:27
14
Eternal Meadow
3:22
Moments Worth Waiting For
The interlocking rhythmic cycles of the title track where the vocals and strings become a single breathing organism
The expansive five minute stretch of The Sun Rises where the quartet creates a shimmering wall of light behind a soaring vocal melody
The delicate pizzicato interplay on My Ruthless Companion that mimics the percussive quality of a Persian santur

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