LE MURMURE DE DUDUK by Chabuka Amiranashvili (CD)

New album by the prolific Georgian musician and producer CHABUKA AMIRANASHVILI.
As was the case with the precursor “Mystic of the Horizon”, the richness of styles and moods makes “Le Murmure De Duduk” an imaginary soundtrack for a non-existent movie.

Born into a family of professional musicians, it is not surprising that CHABUKA AMIRANASHVILI chose a similar path. His father GIVI AMIRANASHVILI played on aerophones at the Georgian National Opera Theater and worked as teacher for trombone and tuba at the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while his grandfather was PETRE AMIRANASHVILI, a famous singer at the Georgian National Opera Theater. CHABUKA himself was member of the Tbilisi State Conservatory children’s orchestra where he learned to play many instruments (clarinet, trumpet, oboe, tuba and bassoon) and later graduated from the 9th municipal music school after learning the violin and saxophone. AMIRANASHVILI spent his obligatory 3 years in the army as a saxophonist and a music instructor in the Army Orchestra, followed by further musical studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory in the class of Sir REVAZ JIBLADZE and at Kutaisi University.
After this profound education, the time had come to actually start with professional work – which to this day turned out a very prolific career: working with famous Georgian singers like TAMAR GVERDTSITELI or SOSO PAVLIASHVILI, as saxophone soloist in the State Estrada Orchestra for the Tbilisi Television, founding the “Plus-Minus Band” in 1992, various tours and concerts in Turkey, Morocco, Cyprus, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Germany and other countries, followed by his “Chabuka’s Band” and composing music for fictional films, documentary movies and television shows. “Zekari” was AMIRANASHVILI’s first of a series of works for choreography, created for NINO RAMISHVILI’s 90th anniversary, later he collaborated with ILIKO SUKHISHVILI and the ensemble SAMAIA and wrote music for films. He released several solo albums and now focuses on SHARA, a group that delivers the famous Georgian polyphonic singing, garnered with dancers for live concerts …

AMIRANASHVILI’s latest solo effort benefits from all this: an immense richness of styles and moods, from piano ballads to majestic pathos, intriguing vocal parts to ethno-percussions, it is difficult to file the album under a specific genre, it rather evokes plenty of diverse sceneries, like a sonic road trip, destination unknown …