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openmind
who: VA
what: Afghanistan_Untouched-2CD
when: 000-00-0000
where: Traditional Crossroads
sound like: Ethnic
and on: Jan-24-2005
resulting in: 34 tracks
which makes: 155,2 MB
using lame at: VBR kB
and some more:
Reviews
Songlines
ôa varied and fascinating collection, with 40 pages of
excellent notes and photos....,
A hidden treasury of music, these mono recordings were
made by Mark Slobin, mainly in northern Afghanistan,
back in 1968 (when he also broadcast a programme on
Radio Afghanistan about the Beatles). At that time it
was a peaceful country, before the 1973 overthrow of
Zahir Shah which heralded a quarter-century of war and
bloodshed. These recordings had their own problems:
they were released on three LPs (Anthology Records)
1969-70, but the company went out of business, the
warehouse was struck by lightning and most of them went
up in smoke.
The first disc features Tajik and Uzbek folk musicians
singing and playing various plucked lutes of the
region--dambura, tanbur and dutar--and the ghichak
fiddle. Needless to say, itÆs the sort of local
tea-house musical culture that has all but disappeared,
although the dance piece played by Abdul Mazari and
Bangecha Tashqurghani is remarkably similar to music
IÆve heard by Taj Mohammad, a popular Uzbek singer in
northern Afghanistan today. The second disc features
several Pashtu songs and music of Hazaras, Kazaks and
other minority groups, the highlights including Mohamad
QasemÆs flamboyant performances on the delicate dutar.ö
Shepherd Express
ôAfghanistan was a fascinating country in the 1960s,
before revolutionaries overthrew the tolerant old
monarchy and opened the door to Soviet invasion, civil
war, the Taliban and American intervention. Some of
AfghanistanÆs cultural richness was documented in 1968
when musicologist Mark Slobin traveled the rugged
country making field recordings of traditional by
Pashtuns, Tajiks and others. Now available on CD,
those unvarnished tracks are remarkable for their
diversity and power, from rhythmically hypnotic grooves
to twangy, stringed numbers whose melodies echo the
tramp of ancient caravans.ö
Dirty Linen
ôof particular note is a two-CD set of field recordings
from Afghanistan recorded in 1968. Afghanistan
Untouched contains 40 pages of notes and an array of
ethnic music styles that were intentionally suppressed
by war and economic conditions. Afghan relief efforts
will receive donations from the sales of the CD.ö
Le Monde
ôMiroir de la mosaique de populations et de cultures en
Afghanistan, cette serie dÆenregistrements, collectes
par lÆethnomusicologue americain Mark Slobin en 1968,
envoie a une epoque ou la musique du pays nÆavait pas
encore ete denaturee, bridee, puis niee et interdite.
Avant les turbulences et chaos successifs quÆa connus
le pays apres la chute de la monarchie en 1973. Une
periode heureuse alors pour la musique, meme si
celle-ci etait deja etroitement surveillee par les
autorites dÆalors, nuance Slobin. Des amateurs
anonymes croises dans les maisons de the, les bazars
(marches), mais aussi des musiciens celebres, tels que
Baba Naim, joueur de ghichak, vielle a deux cordes
frottees aux sonorites reches, ou encore Baba Qeran qui
lui est specialiste du dambura, lÆun des luths
utilises, avec le rubab--instrument national du
pays--et le dutar, dans la musique traditionnelle
afghane. Temoignage de traditions tadjike, ouzbek,
hazara, pashtoune, herati, kazakhe et turkmene, la
diversite de ces pieces vocalies et instrumentales
forme un tableau polychrome dÆinstantanes vibrants de
verite, dÆechos chaleureux de moments conviviaux,
informels et spontanes.
http://www.traditionalcrossroads.com/
track list:
│ CD1
│
│ 01 Kataghani Tune
│ 02 Felak Song from Darwaz Region of Badakhstan
│ 03 Felak for Solo Ghicak
│ 04 Felak for Flute
│ 05 Baba Naim's Felak Songs
│ 06 Felak on Dambura
│ 07 Songs xith Qairaq
│ 08 Song from Wakhan
│ 09 Dambura Medley
│ 10 Teahouse Songs
│ 11 Dance Piece with Dambura and Tanbur
│ 12 Women's Wedding Song
│ 13 Aqchai on Solo Dambura
│ 14 Girya (Uzbek Classical Song with Dutar)
│ 15 Dance Piece for Dutar
│ 16 Guroghli Epic Tale Excerpt
│ 17 Sowt-i Miskin (Classical Uzbek Dutar Piece)
│
│ CD2
│
│ 01 Flute Tunes
│ 02 Song for Attan Dancing
│ 03 Excerpt of the Adam Khan Tale
│ 04 Bulbulak-i Sangshekan for Voice and Tanbur
│ 05 Radio Afghanistan Songs on Flute
│ 06 Landai Songs with Ghichak
│ 07 Ghori (Dutar Piece)
│ 08 Lullaby
│ 09 Morghak
│ 10 Shirin (Dutar Piece)
│ 11 Dombra Pieces
│ 12 Kokshetau
│ 13 Two Dili-tuidik Pieces
│ 14 Waghelbeg (Karghy-tuidik Piece)
│ 15 Ughulbeg (Song with Dutar)
│ 16 Nawai (Dutar Piece)
│ 17 Samples of Dru∙ Rhythms on Zirbaghali
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