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Two Wai musicians - playing a "wadj" (left) and a "serenggi" (right)
Waigal Valley, Afghanistan, 1953
(photo by Peder Rasmussen)
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1. A fife and drum piece played by the Kalasha people (Pakistan)
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Kalasha girls dancing
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2. A funeral chant sung by a choir of Kam singers (Afghanistan)
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3. "Ruqs kardan", a fife and drum piece played by Kam musicians (Afghanistan)
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4. "How beautiful is her tunic, its neck bearing a string of silver coins", sung by a choir of Pashai singers (Afghanistan)
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Two Wai musicians - playing a "wadj" (left) and a "serenggi" (right)
Waigal Valley, Afghanistan, 1953
(photo by Peder Rasmussen)
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1. A fife and drum piece played by the Kalasha people (Pakistan)
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Kalasha girls dancing
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2. A funeral chant sung by a choir of Kam singers (Afghanistan)
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3. "Ruqs kardan", a fife and drum piece played by Kam musicians (Afghanistan)
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4. "How beautiful is her tunic, its neck bearing a string of silver coins", sung by a choir of Pashai singers (Afghanistan)
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Inhabitants of the Parun (left) and Wama (right) Valleys in Afghanistan, 1974
(photo by Max Klimburg)
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5. "atane meli kashana" for "shibro" (flute) and "djamba" (drum), recorded in the Waigal Valley in 1968
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6. Wedding music (Pashto?) for "zurna" (reed flute) and "dhol" (drum) recorded in the village of Chaga Sarai in Nuristan
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7. "kamale kimile", a polyphonic song sung by a choir in the village of Mondesh in the Waigal Valley, recorded in 1953
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8. A Pashai dance tune, payed on a fife and a drum
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The village of Waigal in Afghanistan, 1974
(photo by Max Klimburg)
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(photo by Max Klimburg)
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A more recent video of "Nooristani mashriqi" dance and music, filmed by a certain Vaheed Kaacemy as part of his research into 'the origins of Afghan music and its rise in Nooristan':
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you are doing great job, really in the time that most of the unknown languages, cultures and different small ethinic groups are losing their identity for the fever of Globalization, it would be big effort to search about the world different traditional musics and cultures.
ReplyDeletebeing from nuristan, it was great to see such a good work
exactly this is a great job and very appreciable. i am proud of such peoples that bare working to reserve the ancient but great cultures of beautiful and great nations of world like nuristani nation.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, exactly what i was looking for.
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