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Follow producer Carla Seidl as she goes guesting in an Azerbaijani home and receives an unexpected gift. The piece, which focuses on cultural differences, shows how integral hospitality is to Azerbaijani culture and also illuminates how food often represents a forging of human relationships. Carla recorded this piece while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Azerbaijan. The language you will hear spoken underneath her English narration is Azerbaijani.
Photo: traditional Azerbaijani tea setting
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Follow producer Carla Seidl as she goes guesting in an Azerbaijani home and receives an unexpected gift. The piece, which focuses on cultural differences, shows how integral hospitality is to Azerbaijani culture and also illuminates how food often represents a forging of human relationships. Carla recorded this piece while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Azerbaijan. The language you will hear spoken underneath her English narration is Azerbaijani. Photo: traditional Azerbaijani tea setting
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Review of Four EggsThrough its subtle use of ambient sounds, Four Eggs transports listeners straight into a village in northern Azerbaijan to exotic, and even intimate, effect. Seidl's narration has a pleasant, unpolished, and earnest tone which pulls you further into the piece, and the content of the narrative is packed with intriguing information. There were a couple moments where I thought the background sounds muddied the narrative mildly, but it should not dissuade anyone from enjoying such an original piece. |
Broadcast History
American Public Media's The Splendid Table, November 1, 2008
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Matthew Battles
Posted on November 09, 2008 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
Review of Four Eggs
This piece is a sonic feast and a treat for the imagination. Ambient sounds are wonderfully observed and orchestrated here; narration is balanced acoustically, and the words are very fine--both wry and respectful. And the tones of the Azerbaijani language are beautiful, especially in the opening, when they linger untranslated. Some of the later dialogue could be given a more space relative to the translation. That said, it's a remarkably balanced tone poem altogether.