I read classical and jazz threads here in audiogon...
I like to READ why someone enjoy some music and not only listen to the music first...
Why?
Because i like to explore out of my first reflex personal taste...
Then i prefer reading about music before listening to it or during my first listening .... If not, i will entertain only my innate or acquired actual taste... Reading why someone like this or that can awake some unknown fiber in my brain/soul/heart...
I discovered this way, persian music, indian music and more...
My first persian music was a discarded bad recording of persian tanbur album..
The one who own it discard it to me saying that it was horrible music with horrible sound..
For an unexperimented north american ears it was not false... 😁😊
But before listening to this album i read the text inside the cd...
And to my suprise the great classical violonist Yehudi Menihin said that listening to this persian master of the tanbur was one of the greatest musical experience in his life... I was thinking why it is? Spiritual and rythmic, and harmonic, melodic consumed virtuosity in improvisation...
I was stunned... Especially when i listened to this album for the first time and my first persian music album by this sufi master... the sound was not very good but it was listenable...
But guess what?
After 2 listening i was completely flabbergasted....I used this music to meditate time to time and i bought many others persian music on different instruments... Same for India...
The rest is my personal musical history...