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Afghanistan Untouched

by: Various Artists

Release Date July 08, 2003
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 ... Read More: