Tracks

1. A Cool Wind Is Blowing
2. Brother Hunter
3. Look Here, My Dear
4. I Will Not Be Sad In This World
5. Little Flower Garden
6. Your Strong Mind
7. The Ploughman
8. Dle Yaman

Catalogue number (world) HNCD 1493

Published by Opal/Upala Music

About This Album

Recorded in Moscow and later dedicated to the victims of the 1988 earthquake, this album was Djivan's first major foray into the West after coming to the attention of both Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno. Born in 1929 near the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Djivan calls on his strong traditional roots in this album. His status is recognised internationally and his hallmark mastery of the duduk has featured in several films

"There is a deeply restorative power present in the music of Djivan Gasparyan. It reaches your ears like a gift, then moves on inside you, even when the record stops. I Will Not Be Sad In This World contains some of the most emotionally expressive music I've ever heard. Achingly beautiful sounds emerge from Gasparyan's duduk, an ancient and traditional instrument from his native Armenia. His mystical playing can only be described as transcendent, overflowing with a spiritual intensity of Biblical proportions. Like saxophonist John Coltrane's divinely inspired playing on A Love Supreme, Gasparyan somehow manages to pull from his instrument a sound that feels like the human soul laid bare."