#afghan music

[khaperai]

Pashto music cassette tape covers

#pashto music #pukhto music #afghan music #Pakistani music #cassette tapes #pashtun #own post

[mywifeleftme]

294: Nashenas // Life is a Heavy Burden

Life is a Heavy Burden Nashenas 2022, Strut (Bandcamp)

Nashenas is one of Afghanistan’s most beloved twentieth century singers. Born in Kandahar in 1935, he was raised in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan) before his family returned to Afghanistan during his adolescence. By his early 20s he had become a popular vocalist, with a weekly national radio slot singing traditional poetry, adaptations of popular Bollywood songs, and (with increasing frequency) his own compositions in Dari and Pashto.

Most of his work is in the ghazal tradition, a form of Arabo-Persian poetic ode (classically a simultaneous address to an absent lover and to God) that has remained popular in the East for nearly 1,500 years. The songs have a meditative consistency of rhythm, his vocals carrying the melody as he accompanies himself with drones on the harmonium while a tabla player supplies percussion, verses broken by instrumental refrains that answer the vocal melody. Nashenas has a panged yet resigned style suitable to the form, never leaning into cheap emotional theatrics. He spools out his words patiently, great feeling leavened by enlightened reservation. I picture him with his eyes closed, sitting cross-legged as he hums and croons the words that billow from the incense burning within him till the room has filled with it. Despite the focus on his voice though, this is quite dynamic music: the drumming on songs like “Life is a Heavy Burden” provides a raw, intense counterpoint to Nashenas’s steady vocal, while the blissful harmonium drone of “I Am Happy Alone” finds a common note with the primary colours of music made by children, outsider folkies, and the untrained.

Physical media wasn’t common in Afghanistan when Nashenas was establishing himself, and radio broadcasts were the primary outlet for performers. What recordings he did make were largely for radio archives, and many of these were apparently destroyed in the wars that have ravaged the region for decades. As a result, little of Nashenas’s prime is well-documented, and prior to this compilation virtually none of what does exist had been released in the West. Life is a Heavy Burden: The Songs and Poetry of Nashenas collects highlights from a brief run of Iranian 45 pressings of Radio Afghanistan recordings from the late ‘50s. The liners elaborate:

Although hard to fully confirm, it appeared these records were part of an arrangement between someone in Radio Afghanistan and Royal, one of the major labels in Iran. …Recordings were presumably supplied to the pressing plant in Tehran to be manufactured and then sold to the Afghan diaspora in the country, or exported back to Afghanistan. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with a few singles released by Nashenas, Zaland, his wife Sara, and others such as Ustad Mahwash, Ghulam Dastagir Shaida, and Ahmad Wali. Whoever arranged it apparently did not inform the artists themselves!

You’d never know how screamingly rare these pieces are, or that they were not sourced from masters, from the job Strut Records has done with Life is a Heavy Burden. The fidelity is brilliant, clearly of another epoch in terms of technology but unmarred by the dust and rough handling endured by near-70-year-old second-hand discs. I’d recommend this one to anyone with an interest in mid-century music from the Middle East and South Asia, or its influence on Western pop and experimental music from the ‘60s onward.

294/365

#nashenas #afghan music #afghanistan #middle eastern music #ghazal #ghazals #urdu music #dari music #pashto music #urdu #dari #pashto #'50s music #music review #vinyl record #strut records

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Naujawanan Baidar, “Akram Yari,” Khedmat Be Khalq. Radio Khiyaban, 2022.

#naujawanan baidar #Khedmat Be Khalq #radio khiyaban #afghanistan #afghan music #afghan folk #noise rock #psychedelic rock #pashtun #anticolonial #new music 2022

[normal-thoughts-official]

Starting a project so

This post is to ask for recommendations of Afghan music

Can be of any genre, in any language, available anywhere, by anyone, as long as they're from/in Afghanistan. Doesn't have to be famous either, you can put your school band if you want to. Just drop a song/artist name in the comments or replies and I'll check it out!

I'm making one for every non-culturally dominant country

[reblogs would be appreciated!]

#music #afghan music #afghanistan

[bruce-adams]

It's been a long time since I left you...

I've been working on stuff, I swear, and on a book tour to support the November 1 release of You're with Stupid. As well as talking with some people for their podcasts. So while the i's are dotted and the t's crossed, here's a list of what's dominated the airwaves in my lonely room day after day...

Cleared Of Endless Night [Touch] Naujawan Baidar Kehdmat Be Khalq [Radio Khiyaban] Lifeguard Crowd Can Talk [Born Yesterday] Marek Pospieszalski Polish Composers of the 20th Century [Clean Feed] King Sunny Ade The Best of the Classic Years [Shanachie]

The Naujawan Baidar music really hits me and I've got half a mind to pursue more information and possible write at length. But don't hold me to that.

#king sunny ade #Naujawan Baidar #touch #afghan music #lifeguard band #chicago #bandcamp

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Vahid Delahang - Rag Sohni by Various Artists

#Afghan music #Bandcamp

[molkolsdal]

Afghan students attending Afghan National Institute of Music receive a full academic curriculum while immersed in the study of traditional Afghan musical instruments and training in modern orchestral performance.

Robert Nickelsberg

#Robert nickelsberg #Afghan National Institute of Music #Afghanistan #education

[thewildbelladonna]

“I’d read a novel about two sisters, Branwen and Rhiannon. I wrote the song about Rhiannon and bought an Afghan hound and named her Branwen. So it could have been the other way around, you know.” —Stevie Nicks

#stevie nicks #fleetwood mac #tusk #music video #video shoot #1979 #sun hat #jewellery #floral dress #pink outfit #sandals #afghan hound #branwen #dogs #animals #black and white #candid #rhiannon #quotes

[strawburryjamg1rl]

Sassy’s Dear Boy advice column

#j mascis #dinosaur jr. #dinosaur jr #ween #dean ween #beck #beck Hansen #evan dando #the lemonheads #thurston moore #sonic youth #Greg Duplo #afghan whigs #90s music #90s nostalgia #90s aesthetic #90s alternative #90s alt rock

[khaperai]

Afghan Pashto singer Bakht Zamina

#afghan #afghan music #pashto #pukhto #70s #80s #afghan singer #afghan women #pashtun #pukthoon

[peopleofafghanistan]

Afghan Woman Drumming, Afghan Market Outside Khorog, Tajikistan.

Afghanistan lies just a short walk across a bridge over the Panj River from the Afghan Market on the Tajik side of the border. Afghan market vendors walk their goods across the village from their nearby home villages on the other side of the river.

Source:  The Humans Being Project

#tajikistan #afghanistan #afghan woman #afghan people #tajik #tajik people #pamir #badakhshan #market #village #drums #drum #instrument #music #tradition #traditional clothes #folk costume #rural #woman #high res

[possible-streetwear]

#afghan whigs #gig posters #gig poster #poster design #concert poster #music posters #poster art #posters #poster #affiche #indie rock #indie music #indie #alternative band #alternative music #alternative rock #alternative #90s music #1990s #90s bands #90s alternative #90s indie #90s style #90s nostalgia #90s #90

[goatpalacezine]

In situ: The Gutter Twins, "Saturnalia"

Record: Saturnalia (Sub Pop Records, 2008) In a more visionary world than we will ever experience, Mark Lanegan’s I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings (Da Capo Press, 2017), with its insider notes from the magic mountain where some of his songs came from, would have by now been greatly expanded to incorporate a more complete record of this colossus recording artist’s output as writer, songwriter,…

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#BMG #Da Capo Press #Ellensburg #Greg Dulli #Hachette Books #Indie Music #Josh Homme #Mark Lanegan #Pitchfork #Queens of the Stone Age #Saturnalia #Seattle Music Scene #Sub Pop Records #The Afghan Whigs #The Business #The Gutter Twins #The Screaming Trees #The Twilight Singers #Tinariwen #UNKLE #White Rabbit Press

[bruce-adams]

When I up, I big up.

#afghan music #music writing #bandcamp #kranky

[gingerylangylang1979]

Finally, an update on this film!

#fremont movie #babak jalali #anaita wali zada #jeremy allen white #sundance film festival #sxsw festival #afghan stories #refugee stories #music box films

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Throwback: Happy 59th Birthday, Mark Lanegan!

Throwback: Happy 59th Birthday, Mark Lanegan! @marklanegan @twilitekid @qotsa

The great Mark Lanegan was born 59 years ago today. I was extremely lucky to have caught him twice and was thrilled to see him because I adored his solo work, his work with Queens of the Stone Age and his work with Screaming Trees, an act that should have been much bigger than what they were. Of course, if you really love Lanegan, you also love his work with The Afghan Whigs‘ Greg Dulli in The…

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#1980s #1990s #2000s #2010s #2020s #Greg Dulli #grunge #indie rock #Live Footage #Mark Lanegan #music #music video #Queens of the Stone Age #Screaming Trees #singer/songwriter #The Afghan Whigs #The Twilight Singers #throwback #video