Persian Kurdish Traditions Fused

This is a very powerful piece of music called In The Mirror Of The Sky by Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Akbar Moradi. The fifty plus minutes length is split into different tracks on the listing but it is really a continuous piece of music that goes through various changes and builds to successive peaks. These two master musicians are from different but related classical traditions, that of Persia and that of Kurdistan. Because of their proximity to each other ( and the political integration of large parts of Kurdistan into modern day Iran ) the music of the two cultures is historically related but each has formed a unique path of development over the centuries. Kayhan Kalhor appears on a couple of other disks that I have and is a virtuoso on the Persian kamancheh ( spike fiddle ) He is expert in the classical tradition while the work of Ali Akbar Moradi on the Kurdish tanbur ( lute ) is slightly more folky, the instrument being long associated with mysticism. This boundary crossing improvisation is on Kurdish modes and drips with soul. Moradi adds vocals at a couple of points during the course of this extended piece, the lyrics setting Kurdish poems of love and nostalgia. Percussion effects are provided by the tombak ( goat drum ) of Pejman Hadadi. Is it a forlorn hope that shared cultures can bring some reconciliation to this troubled region ? The music here is certainly inspirational.