''Night, Silence, Desert'' () is a collaborative album by Iranian musician

Kayhan Kalhor Kayhan Kalhor (, born on 24 November 1964) is an Iran, Iranian Kurds, Kurdish kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer. He has received three Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album nominations. Kalhor has also earned two nom ...

with

Mohammad Reza Shajarian Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (; , 23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020) was an Iranian singer and master ('' Ostad'') of Persian traditional music. He was also known for his skills in Persian calligraphy and humanitarian activities. Shajarian started ...

and others, released on 12 September 2000 in the United States through Traditional Crossroads records.

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Personnel

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Kamancheh The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (, , , ) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. Th ...

– Vocals * Ardavan Kamkar –

Santur The santur ( ; ) is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origin.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻUmmāl al-Markazīyya. History The santur was invented ...

Bijan Kamkar The Kamkars (, ) is a Kurdish Iran musical family group of seven brothers and a sister, all from the city of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province of Iran. The group has performed numerous concerts around the world, including their per ...

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Daf Daf (), also known as dâyere and riq, is an Iranian frame drum musical instrument, also used in popular and classical music in Persian-influenced South and Central Asia, such as in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, many ...

* Behzad Farhoudi –

Ney The ney ( ; ) is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in traditional Persian, Turkish, Jewish, Arab, and Egyptian music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played for over 4,500 ye ...

Hossein Behroozinia Hossein Behroozinia (Persian language, Persian: حسین بهروزی‌نیا; born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian barbat (lute), barbat and oud player. Behroozinia was a student at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, where he stu ...

– Barbat * Haj Ghorban Soleimani –

Dotar The ''dutar'' (also '' dotar''; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a traditional Iranian long-necked two-stringed lute found in Iran and Central Asia. Its name comes from the Persian word for "two strings", دوتار ''do tār'' (< دو ''do'' "two",تار ...

References

Kayhan Kalhor albums Persian music Middle Eastern music 2000 albums {{2000-album-stub