really incredible album. the silk road project has something to do with traveling around and finding artists. i haven't read up on it, it is just what i've been told.
My mom owns a duduk. (A double reed instrument listed on the Silk Road website that sounds like a quietly dying duck.) She bought it, along with another instrument called a "zirnah," when we went to Armenia in 1985. If you want to hear some really cool duduk music get the "Gladiator" soundtrack.
I am listening to Debussy's "La Mer" and it's pretty damn fantastic. This disc also has Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" and Ravel's "Bolero" on it.