The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I – review

(ECM) Georges Gurdjieff is best known as a mystic and spiritual teacher, but he was also a musician who composed by dictating to his pupil, the Russian pianist Thomas de Hartmann. The great jazz pianist Keith Jarrett helped revive international interest in Gurdjieff's work with his Sacred Hymns album, in 1980, but this set presents his music in a very different setting. Gurdjieff was born in Armenia, and influenced by the songs he heard on his travels through the Middle East and Central Asia. Th...

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