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Virtuoso From Afghanistan by: Ustad Mohammad Omar CD-Charts Price: $16.98 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093074043929 Label: Smithsonian Folkways Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Smithsonian Folkways Release Date: April 23, 2002 Studio: Smithsonian Folkways Sales Rank: 66114 Disc 1: Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980. Amazon.com: When the whole world seems to be losing its collective mind, music remains an important--sometimes only--means of communication between battling factions who actually know very little about one another. Ustad (an honorific granted to Muslim musical icons) Omar is a revered master of the rabab, a short-necked plucked lute with a plangent, gutty tone. He performs here with a youthful Indian tabla (a hand drum capable of wide variations of pitch) player named Zakhir Hussain, who has since achieved international stardom. Stylistically, the music seems to have much in common with Indian classical traditions, although it is less languid, more direct, and not constructed over an underlying drone. These five tracks were recorded during a 1974 performance at the University of Washington in Seattle. Both men are captured at their fiery best, goading one another into explosive bursts of complex time signatures and breathtaking melodic invention. --Christina Roden Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Ancient Music From AfghanistanAn extremely intersting and valuable document. This music is the precursor of Indian Classical Music. This great master is i beleive the only great master of Rebab that has left us a modern recording. The recording is excellent and the music haunting and deep. If the preceding words have frightened you i must also add it is really enjoyable music though not for easy listening. Giorgio from italy Rating: - EXCELLENT AFGHANISTANIAN SOUNDSAfghanistan has a rich musical heritage less evident in these lands ravaged by war and poverty. It's the same with Iraq--wonderful musical heritage (like Omar and Munir Bashir). You can really hear it in "Virtuoso from Afghanistan" and I recommend this album highly. Rating:  - If only there were more where this came from!Congratulations! Whether on purpose or by accident, you just came across the single best "live" cd release of 2002! This disc was recorded in 1974 at Ustad Mohammad Omar's only public performance in the United States, a concert that I'm sure everyone who attended still remembers with extreme joy. I'm not sure why, but I just didn't seem to be in much of a review-writing mood for alot of 2002. If I had been, I would have reviewed this cd much earlier, as it deserves. Fans of Hindustani music will be pleased to know that the rabab is the instrument that the sarod evoled out of. If you're a fan of Buddhadev Das Gupta or Amjad Ali Khan or Ali Akbar Khan (etc...) then that in itself would be enough reason to be curious about ... Read More: |
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