Aghakhan Abdullayev - Dorna - Musiqi Sanati Azerbaijan (Art Music of Azerbaijan) - Cassette published in Iran

Aghakhan Abdullayev (Aqakhan Abudllaev) is one of the most important and most traditional Mugham singers of Azerbaijan. Born in 1950, he is a student of the great Haji Baba Huseynov (1919-1993) and is regarded as the guardian of Mugham. He is also one of the most important teachers. Amongst his students is the famous Alim Qasimov. Here we present a cassette recorded and published in Iran. A wonderful CD has been published in France by Inédit - Maison des Cultures du Monde. 

See: http://www.maisondesculturesdumonde.org/node/238

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Cheikh Mouhammad Farid Al Sindyouni (1912-1955) - Le Coran - LP published in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976

Here as a small tribute to the holy month of Ramadan a LP by a less known Qur'an reciter from Egypt:

Sheikh Muhammed Farid al-Sandyouni (محمد فريد السنديوني)

(1912 - 1955) 

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Ari Babakhanov - Shashmaqam of Bukhara - Cassette from Uzbekistan

Ari Babakhanov (born 1934) is a wellknown renewer of the old Shashmaqam of Bukhara. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Babakhanov

See also our last post containing recordings by his grandfather and his father: http://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.de/2016/05/buxarskie-klassiki-classical-music-of.html

In 1998, RASA in Utrecht, Holland, organized a tour by the ensemble and I still remember very vividley, how I accompanied the tour with a CD desk and was taken by the music with each of the 5 or 6 concerts more and more and how sad I was at their last concert that the tour was finished. This is a music one has to grow into and the more one does the more rewarding it becomes.

The same year 1998 the ensemble also went in Holland into a studio and recorded a magnificent CD:

The CD is available at: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com

I bought this cassette from the musicians at a more recent concert, maybe about 10 or a little more years ago, also in RASA.

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