Let’s take a look at some of the many forms of Oriental Jazz that have developed over the past half-century or so… Here’s Tunisian jazz composer Anour Brahem’s offering:
http://youtu.be/L_UDEDlJcnQ
You might appreciate The Astounding Eyes of Rita, coming up next…
To be fair, not all Gurdjieff’s music was from Gomidas. Actually a number of them were reconstructed from memory and were Arabic and tribal songs from the Caucasus and general region of Greece and Armenia, from which Gurdjieff had come when he arrived in Russia. Here is a very good example of what Gurdjieff could not present to his dance students in France, but which we can construct today from what little remains of the cultures he encountered back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Well, first off, a good deal of Gurdjieff’s Sacred Music wasn’t Gurdjieff’s music in the first place; Continue reading