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Various Artists - Lost In Tajikistan '2023

Lost In Tajikistan
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Album name Lost In Tajikistan
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Date 2023
GenreWorld
Play time 79 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 502 MB
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These tracks were recorded in Tajikistan around 2008 in the capital city
Dushanbe, up in the Pamiri town of Khorog and in two nearby villages in the
Ghunt valley. It’s just a tiny slice of the mountain music of Tajikistan,
whose rich traditions have soaked up the traffic of the Silk Roads and beyond
for thousands of years.

Back in 2004, musician Lu Edmonds (The Damned, Public Image Ltd, Mekons,
Waterboys and Billy Bragg) travelled to Tajikistan as an interpreter for a
biodiversity project funded by TCF (The Christensen Foundation). In his words
“It was an experience that I liked enough to continue with a
‘capacity building’ project in post-Soviet musical
ecosystems.”

What that meant in practice was smuggling in old Revox reel-to-reel tape
machines and modern digital interfaces to digitise 2,000+ incredible hours of
Soviet-era audio archives at the Rudaki Institute of Languages in Dushanbe.
Also, a series of open-air acoustic gigs were held and a free hospital for sick
instruments with London luthier Andrew Scrimshaw in the Gurminj Museum of
Musical Instruments, founded by master musician and Soviet film star Gurminj
Zavkibekov, whose son Iqbol of the groups MIZROB and SHAMS is such a central
musical figure in Dushanbe.

With the help of Taneli Bruun of Global Music Centre (Helsinki) a 16-track
studio in the museum was built. Using a Mac G4 powerbook, decent mics and a
10-track Metric Halo multitrack interface they recorded up in the high Pamirs
with singer, composer and musical visionary Samandar Pulodov, while scoping out
his dream of a live music festival in the high Pamirs – now the wonderful
annual ‘Roof of the World’ Festival, held in a new amphitheatre in
Khorog donated by HH the Aga Khan.


The album kicks off with the supergroup MIZROB, whose explorations in local
traditional and regional tunes frame the singing of multi-instrumentalist star
Davlat Nasri. The winter of 2008 was so cold (-20℃), that the museum was
packed with as many musicians as possible in order that 5 new songs could be
recorded with SAMANDAR, along with his top percussionist pal Zarif Pulodov and
his brother, Pulod at the controls.

Next up, the wonderful traditional group SAMO whose rubobs, ghijaks, dafs and
tanburs drive us up the crazy switchbacks of the M41 Pamir highway into the home
of musical luminary DAVLAT NAZAR in Khorog. Finally, a rough 4WD ride to the raw
musical source in the villages: a traditional welcoming song by SULTON NAZAR and
a stunning 16 minute acapella/drum Daf-Soz by SHANBE – all about life,
the universe, everything.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Mizrob - Ruzi Hush (3:00)
1.02 - Mizrob - Mazori Sarif (3:24)
1.03 - Mizrob - Laylijon (5:14)
1.04 - Mizrob - Yorma Na Didam (6:27)
1.05 - Mizrob - Hurshedam (3:51)
1.06 - Samanadar - Ay Gulak (4:20)
1.07 - Samandar - Dam Hama Dam (Ali Ali) (5:05)
1.08 - Samandar - Dili Dilidor (4:33)
1.09 - Samo - Mastynoz (5:08)
1.10 - Samo - Yod Bod (8:49)
1.11 - Davlat Nazar - Man Ba Didani Gul (3:19)
1.12 - Davlat Nazar - Ali Sheri Khudo (3:28)
1.13 - Davlat Nazar - Bakhor (1:49)
1.14 - Sulton Nazar - Omaded Mehmoni Mo (Mihonyar Village) (4:58)
1.15 - Shanbe - Daf Soz (Barsem village) (16:08)

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