Afghanistan: Music from Kabul - 1972

Afghanistan: Music from Kabul
Жанр: Ethno
Страна: Afghanistan
Год издания: 1972
Аудиокодек: MP3
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 40:24
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Треклист:
01. Gholam Nabi and Malang - Delruba and Zerbaghali (4:02)
02. Utad Mohammad Omar and Ghulalahm - Rebab and Dhol (6:01)
03. Ghulam Haidar and Malang - Tula and Zerbaghali (2:11)
04. Abdul Majid and Malang - Tanbur and Zerbaghali (3:08)
05. Ustad Gholam Nabi and Mohammad Asef - Delruba and Tabla (3:26)
06. Gholam Hassan and Faiyaz Mohammad - Sarinda and Dhol (3:14)
07. Kamar Gul Zakhail - Typical Love Song (5:07)
08. Kamar Gul Zakhail - Jalalabad Wedding Song (5:02)
09. Kadim and Malang - Dotar and Zerbaghali (2:03)
10. Mohammad Zakhail and Ghazi - Love Song from Nangahar part 1 (2:46)
11. Nahmattullah - Love Song from Nangahar part 2 (3:24)

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Afghanistan, whose previous name was Ariyana, was so named about a century and a half ago by King Ahmad Shah. Afghanistan shares borders with China, India, Pakistan, Iran and Asiatic Russia. In ancient times these borders were crossed many times by the routes of commerce and conquest. Now Afghanistan is about to become the air route link between the western world and China. Thus Afghanistan is an important link in the chain of cultures binding Europe and Asia together.
Musically, the link can be heard by listening to pieces from various regions of Afghanistan. The western and northern music is dominated by Near Eastern or Central Asian styles, while Eastern Afghan music is heavily Hindu oriented. The musical instruments also show this interlocking of cultures.
Afghan instruments are basically simple, made up mainly of strings and drums. The string instruments most frequently used are the tanbur, a plucked, fretted lute with drone strings, the rebab, with three pairs of melody strings and ten sympathetic strings, the sarinda, a bowed, three stringed lute, and the delruba, similar in shape to the Indian sitar but smaller and bowed. The drums of Afghanistan can be divided into two groups: single membrane instruments of Persian origin with a goblet shaped body called zerbaghali, and double membrane instruments of Indian origin like the tabla, or the two-headed dhol which is an Afghan originated instrument. There is also a vertical flute with six fingerholes called the tula and the Afghan dotar, a three stringed lute which is plucked. Afghanistan, with a total population of between 16 and 17 million, has two official languages: dari, from old Persian, and Pashtu which is an Afghan language. Around 8 to 9 million inhabitants speal Pashtu and all of the songs on this record are in the Pashtu language from the province of Nangahar which is approximately 75 miles southeast of Kabul. The capital of Nangahar is Jalalabad.

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SIDE 1
Band 1 - 'Delruba and Zerbaghali' played by Gholam Nabi and Malang
Band 2 - 'Rebab and Dhol' played by Ustad Mohammad Omar and Ghulalahm
Band 3 - 'Tula (flute) and Zerbaghali' played by Ghulam Haidar and Malang
Band 4 - 'Tanbur and Zerbaghali' played by Abdul Majid and Malang
Band 5 - 'Delruba and Tabla' played by Ustad Gholam Nabi and Mohammad Asef.
This song is a national melody called 'Anar Anar' which refers to
the pomegranate fruit which comes from Khandahar. The implication
is actually to the roundness of the fruit and the similarity to
the breasts of the beautiful young women from that region.
SIDE 2
Band 1 - 'Sarinda and Dhol' played by Gholam Hassan and Faiyaz Mohammad
Band 2 - 'Typical Love Song' sung in Pashtu by Kamar Gul Zakhail from
Nangahar. Musicians: Harmonium - Mohammad Zakhail; Tabla - Popal;
Clarinet - Master Ahmad Baksh (from Pakistan).
'My love for you is so precious,
don't take it so for granted.
I am so excited by my love for you
that from far away I imagine I hear your footsteps.
Wherever you go
I can feel your presence.
I am waiting for you.
Your love is like a flame that surrounds me
And I can't escpae or I would burn myself.'
Band 3 - 'Jalalabad Wedding Song' sung in Pashtu by Kamar Gul Zakhail.
Musicians: harmonium - Mahammad Zakhail; rebab
(tuned Do-Fa-La-Do); Ustad Mohammad Omar; tabla - Ghazi; tanbur
(tuned Do-Mi-Sol-Do) - Sarwar. Outside of Kabul, in the provinces,
it is very difficult for a young man or young woman to get away
alone, without a chaperone, to meet with each other. One of the
many schemes used to counteract this custom, slow to die in
Afghanistan is that both agree to fetch water from the well or
spring at the smae time and thus steal a few minutes in relative
privacy. This song is about a young woman who is waitng for her
boyfriend who had promised to come to meet her but he is not there.
She laments this fact as she fills up her pot with water and
carries it away on her head.
Band 4 - 'Dotar and Zerbaghali' - played by Kadim and Malang
Band 5 - 'Love song from Nangahar' sung in Pashtu by Mr. Nahmattullah.
Musicians: harmonium - Mohammad Zakhail; rebab - Ustad Mohammad
Omar; tabla - Ghazi.
This is in the special Pashtu rhythm of 4/4.
'Oh my dear, I love your charming dark eyes,
I hope you have not forgotten me.
Come here so I can see you.
Why are you so shy?' *
* The man sees his girlfriend working in the fields and although
she has agreed to meet with him she now appears afraid to do so.