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Grammy voters: Now hear these!
October 28, 2007
The Recording Academy has mailed out some 11,000 Grammy Award nomination ballots to voting members, who have until Nov. 7 to consider the possibilities and return them for tabulation. While they're mulling the countless options, Calendar's pop music staff and contributors offer a few humble suggestions -- artists or individual works of exceptional merit, but perhaps under the radar of most voters -- that deserve to be heard before those final nominations are chosen.
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Traditional World Music Album
Shahram and Hafez Nazeri
"The Passion of Rumi" (QuarterTone Productions)
In the world-music categories, the line between "traditional" and "contemporary" has often been blurred, a reflection of the increased marketability of cross-genre world recordings. The result too often has been a shotgun marriage between exotic ethnic sounds and studio-produced grooves. Not so with Shahram and Hafez Nazeri's "The Passion of Rumi." Shahram's extraordinary singing soars through his improvisations on Rumi poems, accompanied by his son Hafez's stunning blend of Middle Eastern musical structures with the trappings of Western orchestration. 10/28/07 >> go there
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