Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Kataghani Tune - Mohamad Nazar, Baba Qeran
2. Felak Song from Darwaaz Region of Badakhshan
3. Felak for Solo Ghichak - Baba Naim, Malang Nejrowi
4. Felak for Flute - Safar Mahdi
5. Baba Naim's Felak Songs - Baba Naim
6. Felak on Dambura - Naim Faizabadi
7. Songs With Qairaq
8. Song from Wakhan - Bai Mohmad
9. Dambura Medley - Baba Qeran
10. Teahouse Songs - Dave Achelis, Aq Pishak,
11. Dance Piece With Dambura and Tanbur - Abdul Mazari, Bangecha Tashqurghani
12. Women's Wedding Song - Bibi Zulaikha
13. Aqchai on Solo Dambura - Aq Pishak
14. Uzbek Classical Song With Dutar "Girya" - Ghafur Khan
15. Dance Piece for Dutar - Ghafur Khan
16. Gur-Oghli Epic Tale Excerpt - Khodai Qul
17. Classical Uzbek Dutar Piece, "Sowt-I Miskin." - Zia Khoja

Disc 2:

1. Flute Tunes
2. Song for Attan Dancing
3. Excerpt of the Adam Khan Tale
4. Bulbulak-I Sangshekan for Voice and Tanbur - Abdul Mazari
5. Radio Afghanistan Songs on Flute - Gul Mohamad Lakai
6. Landai Songs With Ghichak - Baba Naim
7. Herati Dutar Piece, "Ghori" - Mohamad Qasem
8. Herati Lullaby - Wahab Madadi
9. Herati Song, "Morghak" - Wahab Madadi
10. Herati Dutar Piece, "Shirin, Shirin" - Mohamad Qasem
11. Dombra Pieces - Kazakhstan/Dietrich,
12. Kazakh Song, "Kokshetau." - Haji Birdali
13. Two Turkmen Dili-Tuiduk Pieces - Nur Mohmad
14. Turkmen Karghy-Tuiduk Piece, "Waghelbeg." - Hamra Bakhshi
15. Turkmen Song With Dutar, "Ughulbeg"
16. Turkmen Dutar Piece, "Nawai." - Akhmad Bakhshi,
17. Samples of Drum Rhythms on Zirbaghali - Malang Nejrowi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88026 in Music
• Released on: 2008-08-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Compilation
• Dimensions: .32 pounds

Customer Reviews

Another excellent release from Afghanistan
This is a great 2-disc set of field-recordings from 1968. Represented in this set are the musics of Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara, Pashtun, Herati, Kazakh, and Turkmen peoples.

There is a very nice sampling of styles and instruments, from lutes such as the dutar, tanbur, dambura, and dombra, to the sonorous bowed ghichak, to percussion and vocal styles.

There are a few tracks here from the brilliant ghichak player Baba Naim, who is one of the main musicians featured on the great Inside Afghanistan cd I reviewed some time ago. As well as a few tracks with the great zirbaghali (a drum) player Melang Nejrabi (or Malang Nejrovi, seen it both ways), who is also on Inside Afghanistan. Don't take this to mean that if you have one of these you don't need the other, though. Aside from the few tracks with these 2 (which are not tracks that are repeated on Inside Afghanistan, as these recordings were recorded by different people in different years) there is no overlap of musicians on these 2 cd's.

This is one of my favorite cd's I bought in 2003. This really is a snapshot into a world that may never exist again. It shows a musically vibrant Afghanistan, before the Soviets, war, and the Taliban would bring nothing but pain and silence. One of my favorite tracks features 2 female Uzbek wedding singers. They have great voices and I love the song. This track always gets me. In my lifetime, the attempts were made to turn women into ghosts. Acknowledged only when it was physically convenient for men. It's a great thing to be able to hear the voices of 2 Afghan women from a time when they were still seen and heard.

I meant to keep the shrink-wrap when I bought this cd because there was a sticker on it saying that $1 from the purchase of every Afghanistan Untouched cd goes to...(and now I can't remember the organization because somehow I lost the shrink-wrap)... an organization helping to rebuild Afghanistan. So, besides the excellent and historically important music contained in this set, some of the money also goes to a great cause.