The Wind (2006)

"This is an album of virtuoso playing inspired by the classical and folk traditions of the Middle East. Kayhan Kalhor is from Iran, an exponent of the kamancheh "spike fiddle", who is perhaps best known for his work with the group Ghazal, and their Grammy-nominated fusion of the music of the old Persia and the Indian sub-continent.Now he is looking towards Turkey, with this collaboration with Erdal Erzincan, a master of the baglama, or saz, the long-necked lute. The result is a set of instrumental compositions that flow into each other like one continuous work, with gently drifting passages in which the two instruments echo and improvise on different phrases, matched against more furious passages that sound like flurries of acoustic jazz with a Middle-Eastern edge." (The Guardian)