Saturday, 15 September 2018

Afghanistan - A Musical Anthology of the Orient 3 - Unesco Collection - LP released in Germany in the early 1960s


Here we post an early LP devoted to the music of Afghanistan. This is perhaps the most beautiful anthology of Afghan music ever published, because of its musical quality and the variety it offers.
It was one of the few LPs which were republished on CD by Rounder Records in 2003, in a project to republish the complete Unesco Series, published originally by Bärenreiter in Germany as LPs. Unfortunately, this project was abandoned already after a few CD releases, probably because it did not pay off financially. This CD is no longer available for many years.
One should not take the comments of Alain Daniélou too seriously: they seem a bit too farfetched at times.
We scanned here only the English part of the comments.
This is the first of a series of about ten posts on Afghani music, insha'Allah. At the end of this series we will provide, with some posts by Ustad Sarahang, a bridge to the Raga music of Pakistan and India.












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In the order of the tracks is a mistake: track 11 in the download is track 12 of the LP and track 12 is track 11. Sorry.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 September 2018 at 01:37

    thank you thank you. very much looking forward to this

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  2. Richard17 September 2018 at 05:45

    Thank you, kind sir. Your role as my musical benefactor continues unabated.

    Do you, by any chance, know what the catalog number was for the Rounder reissue for this volume? I checked both discogs and the Rounder website without much luck. I would enjoy the chance to listen to both and see how well the digital reissue sounds.

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  3. Tawfiq17 September 2018 at 09:08

    Dear Richard, the CD is quite difficult to get. On the Rounder website they are almost since 10 years no longer listed. Perhaps try other platforms like ebay, CDandLP etc. The Rounder order no. was: 82161-5121-2. That it is not on Discogs is a sign how rare it is.

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  4. Anonymous19 September 2018 at 19:29

    I agree with you : I never listened better than this anthology. I bought it in the 80's and it was unfortunately damaged. But now, thanks to your work, I can find the original sound :). Cheers. Pierre.

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