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Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia

Various Artists
Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia

In 1990, Theodore Levin and Otanazar Matykubov recorded the musical life of the ancient Central Asian trade center Bukhara. Their goal was to take an audio snapshot of a city that has for centuries created an amalgam of multiple musical cultures. Classical music of Persian Tajiks and Uzbeks mixes with Jewish and Islamic religious music, all of it overlaid with 70 years of Soviet cultural policy. (During and Levin 2002.)

LYRICS
Lyric transcriptions available here

Track Listing

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Shod-i Uforash and Ufor-i Tezash: Dilbaram Shumo (You are my dear one) Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin 01:56
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Mavrigi Mahdi Ibodov 05:14
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Songs from the Sozanda Repertory Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin 13:32
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Murghak (Chicklet) Mahdi Ibodov with Tofakhon and Ensemble Nozanin 02:56
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Mogulcha-i Dugah Ochil Ibragimov and Suleiman Takhalov 05:21
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Ushshaq-i Kalon (Great ushshaq) Izro Malakhov with Mahmudjan Tojiboev, Kuva, Zakir Bobotonov, and Urgench 10:27
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Azan Saifullajan Musaev 01:54
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Na't Dervish Orif Bobo Hamro Ogli 03:20
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Yah Ribbon Olam (Lord of this world) Rakhamim Yakutelov 01:32
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Reading from the Torah Yakub Meer Ochildiev 02:53
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Shalom Aleichem and Kiddush Ochil Ibragimov 03:02
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Qalandar Muhammed Aminjon Nasriddinov 04:06
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Excerpt from the Zohar Isaac Kataev 02:38