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Listen to a sneak preview of Music from the Mountains of Bhutan: http://goo.gl/N57LNO. Read more,…
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the nonprofit record label of the national museum of the U.S., has…
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the nonprofit record label of the national museum of the U.S., has…
The first three volumes of Smithsonian Folkways planned ten-volume Music of Central Asia series are…
London, 19 July 2012 – As part of the contingent of over 1,500 musicians from…
Smithsonian Folkways announces release of Music of Central Asia Volume 10: Borderlands: Wu Man and…
Aga Khan Music Initiative and Smithsonian Folkways Release “Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from…
Smithsonian Folkways and the Aga Khan Music Initiative have announced the tenth and final release…
Two years ago, the Smithsonian Folkways label and the Aga Khan Music Initiative issued Rainbow,…
Creation, Performance & Outreach Programme: 2011 Events http://www.akdn.org/aktc_music_2011_concerts.asp. Aga Khan Music Initiative’s Songs and Albums…
The three 2010 CD/DVD releases covered here are just a taste of a stunning and…
In a modern day encore of the Mughal artistic synthesis, five cosmopolitan-minded musicians from Central…
Afghan rubab virtuoso Humayon Sakhi will team up with percussionists Salar Nader and Abbos Kosimov…
There can be no doubt; lumping musical collections into a pile based on nothing more…
By JON PARELES – Published: March 15, 2010 The words Alim Qasimov sang on Friday…
The latest Kronos disc, “Rainbow,” a collaboration with the Afghan rubab player Homayun Sakhi and…
–Vol. 7: In the Shrine of the Heart: Popular Classics from Bukhara and Beyond –Vol.…
“Rainbow” (Kronos Quartet with Alim Qasimov Ensemble and Homayun Sakhi), “In the Footsteps of Babur”…
To purchase Spiritual Music of Azerbaijan and to learn more about Mugham: Spiritual Music of…
Throughout Central Asia, female musicians, dancers, and entertainers have long been an important part of…
From Christopher Culver If you are even in the least bit interested in Central Asian…
By Jeff Monk If you feel a hankering to expose yourself to a completely new…
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings just released the latest…
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