Despite the album’s title, there’s something inherently mournful about the sound of the duduk, the Armenian double-reed woodwind featured here. It’s one of Hollywood’s go-to instruments to evoke the ancient and the mysterious, but in the hands of a master like Djivan Gasparyan, it’s much more. The eight instrumentals on this 1983 album have a reflective, meditative stillness, achieved with nothing but two duduks—one playing melody, the other a drone. The result is a haunting and hypnotic lament.
- 1998
- Levon Minassian
- Levon Minassian
- Brian Keane, Deuter, James Newton, R. Carlos Nakai, Paul Horn, David Samuels, Peter Michael Hamel, Hans Otte, Jon Mark, David Mingyue Liang, Double Image, Cecil Lytle, Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings, David Hykes & Popol Vuh
- Djivan Gasparyan Quartet
- Gevorg Dabagian & Kamo Khachaturian