Silent City (album)

The Silent City is an album by New York City-based string quartet, Brooklyn Rider and Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor, released by World Village Records in 2008.

Silent City
Studio album by Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider
Released	July 28, 2008
Recorded	Knoop Studios, River Edge, New Jersey
Genre	Classical, Traditional Middle Eastern Folk
Length	52:59
Label	World Village Records
Producer	Kayhan Kalhor

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	Not rated[1]
Pitchfork Media	[2]

Kalhor met members of Brooklyn Rider in 2000 at Tanglewood, where they took part in the cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.

The title track is a Kalhor composition originally Included on Yo-Yo Ma's New Impossibilities,^[3] it is an elegy for Halabjah, a Kurdish city razed by Saddam Hussein.^[1][4]

Track listing

1. "Ascending Bird" (Siamak Aghaei,C. Jacobsen) – 6:54
2. "Silent City" (Kayhan Kalhor) – 29:10
3. "Parvaz" (Kalhor) – 6:23
4. "Beloved, do not let me be discouraged" (C. Jacobsen ) – 10:34

Personnel

• Kayhan Kalhor – Kamancheh, Setar

Brooklyn Rider

• Colin Jacobsen – Violin
• Jonathan Gandelsman – Violin
• Nicholas Cords – Viola
• Eric Jacobsen – Cello

Additional musicians

• Jeff Beecher – Bass
• Mark Suter – Percussion
• Siamak Aghaei – Tombak, Santur on "Parvaz"

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
US Top Classical Crossover Albums[5]	18