Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Seyed Ali Jaberi - Indian Sitar meets Persian Sufi Music
Maestros Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Seyed Ali Jaberi explore the ancient and creative thread that connects North Indian classical music and Persian Sufi music.
Video: https://youtu.be/Y7uEye1hTsI?si=_3CXfzA_ytbx9him
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Seyed Ali Jaberi is a world-renowned, award-winning maestro of the tanbour, whose albums are hugely popular amongst fans of traditional Sufi music. He is considered to be among the foremost tanbour virtuosi in the Persian speaking world and is currently touring and performing worldwide. He is based in the UK.
‘...brims with quiet intensity’
Songlines
Baluji Shrivastav OBE is a renowned UK-based Indian multi-instrumentalist who was blinded at eight months old and has become one of the world’s leading composers and sitar players. He has performed and recorded with some of the greatest tabla accompanists such as Anindo Chatterji and Ustad Fayaz Khan and has worked with a wide variety of artists including Stevie Wonder, Coldplay and Massive Attack. Through the Baluji Music Foundation he works towards more inclusion for blind and partially sighted musicians.
‘...captures a poignancy that crosses all cultural divides.’
The Guardian
Mohammad Jabari
Mohammad Jaberi was born in 1981 in Kermanshah Iran.
He was taught to play the daf by Ostad Khalife Karim Safvati and Ahmad KhakTinat.
He holds a diploma from the Music Faculty of the University of Tehran and has been twice noted as the best daf player in Iran’s Fajr Festival in 1993 and 1996.
In various national and international concerts, he’s accompanied several masters, such as Ostad Shahram Nazeri, Ostâd Jalal Zolfonun, Ostad Kambiz Roshan Ravan, Ostad Dehlavi, Ostad Hasan Nahid, Ostad Iraj Sahbayi, Sami Yusuf, Dolatmand Kholf, Ali Ghamsari, Seyed Ali Jaberi, Mastan Homay, Sheyda Jahed, Bijan Bijani, Mohammad Motamedi, Vahid Taj, Sina Sarlak, Payam Azizi, Saman Ehteshami, Hamed Nikpay, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Masood Jahed, Hamid Ghanbari, Nasser Razazi, and Seyed Jalal Mohammadian.