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HUMAN VOICE / LUTE VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD901 buy button
Recordings by Jean Jenkins & Paul Rovsing Olsen

The religious and secular songs include recitations from the Qu'ran, ceremonial and devotional pieces of the Sufi and other sects, wedding songs and ghazals. Material from this collection has frequently been sampled by Western musicians such as David Byrne and Brian Eno. Tunes are played on the 'ud, tar, tambur and other lutes.

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The Music In the World Of Islam series, TSCD901-903, is drawn from field-recordings by the ethnomusicologists Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen. They illustrate Islamic musical traditions across a vast landscape: 'Bedouins and nomads, farmers on the banks of the Nile, or in the Hindukush Mountains of Afghanistan or the High Atlas of Morocco or the fertile valleys of Pakistan and India, Turkish fishermen on the Black Sea coast and Malay and Javanese along the East China Sea or pearl divers on the gulf which divides Arabia from Iran, as well as the inhabitants of the great and ancient cities of Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Fez and Istanbul'.

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