Ethnic Minority Music Of Northwest Xinjiang, China, by Various Artists

Ethnic Minority Music Of Northwest Xinjiang, China

by Various Artists

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1.	Kurmanjiang Zaccharia - Babulao 01:55	buy track
2.	Ashimunur Kurmanjiang - The Mountain's Pine Trees 02:44	buy track
3.	Pa Hat & Adengr - Margul 04:33	buy track
4.	Kurban - Masto A Iran 02:05	buy track
5.	Xia Art Ghen Aokhan - Atamake 02:46	buy track
6.	Xia Art Ghen Aokhan - Reu Yibuli 03:07	buy track
7.	Kurban - Atoosh's Song 02:55	buy track
8.	Jaymanur Ajabek - Beautiful Kushtar 02:38	buy track
9.	Zhong Ga - One 'Bai Boor Den' 00:53	buy track
10.	Ashimunur Kurmanjiang - Golden Bowl 02:17	buy track
11.	Jaymanur Ajabek - Komontor Hana 03:40	buy track
12.	Jaymanur Ajabek - Aday 01:56	buy track
13.	Zhong Ga - Four different 'Bai Boor Den' 04:16	buy track
14.	Ili Zati - The Rushtar's Song 02:49	buy track
15.	Kali - Morning Nature 02:51	buy track
16.	Kurmanjiang Zaccharia - White Swan 04:10	buy track
17.	Kurban, Pa Hat & Adengr - Ror Salei Muqam 14:59	buy track

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Laurent Jeanneau and Shi Tanding have returned from the northwest corner of China’s Xinjiang province with an amazing batch of recordings collected during the weeks leading up to the volatile Uyghur uprising of 2009. Armed with their trusty audio gear, the couple was set on getting married and recording various styles of regional ethnic music near the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. However the local authorities suspected that the pair had other intentions, shadowing and interrogating them wherever they went. Their marriage in Shi Tanding’s home town of Ili would have to wait for another time (the marriage documents were delayed in processing deep within the Chinese bureaucracy) but the recordings, preserved here, display several magnificent and unique varieties of traditional Islamic folk music with traces of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish influences heard throughout. The players are Kazakh, Uyghur, Kirgiz and Mongol Erut musicians performing on a wide array of local stringed instruments including topchar, komuz, rushtar, rawab and tchang. One amazing example is Kurmanjiang Zaccharia, a Kazakh string virtuoso, whose lightning fast fingers blaze up and down the neck of his two-stringed dongbra. Another is an epic 10 minute vocal muqam performed by a trio of Uyghur musicians on satar, tambur and dotar. Also featured is a Kazakh singing style called Ay Ikesse performed by Aken (improvising poet-singers utilizing dongbra accompaniment), Kirgiz songs sung in the Manas Style and played on the Komuz, and Mongol Erut bai boor den instrumental pieces.

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released October 17, 2010

Design – Robert Millis
Mastered By – Scott Colburn
Photography – Laurent Jeanneau
Recorded By – Laurent Jeanneau, Shi Tanding

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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