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The music of Hamraaz is both magical and atmospheric. As soon as you hear the sound it grabs you and sucks you in, hypnotizing you and bringing you into a state of ultimate bliss.
Hamraaz is a duo that started in 2021 after Lucie Lelaurain and Khorshid Dadbeh met each other at Codarts, the Conservatory of Rotterdam. They play Iranian and Armenian music and like to create contemporary music, inspired by traditional music, the modal and maqam music that they have grown up with.
Hamraaz likes to create the music of today, inspired by traditional music from modal and maqam music that they have grown up with. Their music takes its inspiration from the beauty of modality, the dynamic character of the duduk (kind of flute), and the rich rhythms coming from the strokes of the tanbour and the tar (kinds of lute).
Lucie Lelaurain grew up with traditional Auvergne music by playing the transverse flute and later she fell in love with the playing the duduk. After she got her bachelor’s degree at the conservatory in France, she lived for two years in Istanbul to go deeper into the world of modal music. Currently she is studying at Codarts.
Khorshid Dadbeh studied tar, setar, and tanbour in Iran and later she got her master’s in performing music from Codarts. After she came to the Netherlands she started to promote Iran’s culture and music and integrate her music in collaboration with other musicians.
In their short timespan they already played at places like the Concertgebouw and the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, De Centrale in Ghent and ITGWO. In December 2023 their debut record Abr was released.
About their show at ITGWO the Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant wrote: “You experience the best festival feeling when the music blends in with its surroundings. […] The Iranian Khorshid Dadbeh plays scratchy, woody chords on the small Iranian tanbur, which seem to seek contact with the divine. The French Lucie Lelaurain weaves beseeching melodies through it on the duduk, a wind instrument with which you can whisper something to God. The hypnotizing music is almost unamplified and swirls through the dunes…”
