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REEDS & BAGPIPES, DRUMS & RHYTHMS VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD903 buy button
Recordings by Jean Jenkins & Paul Rovsing Olsen

A kaleidoscopic anthology of gourd-pipes, double clarinets, shawms, bagpipes and a variety of drums, played in contexts ranging from the private and spontaneous to the public and formal, from religious ceremonies to weddings, feasts and dances.

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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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