Silent City (album)

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

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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.

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, it is an elegy for Halabjah, a Kurdish city razed by Saddam Hussein.

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