Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia

Various Artists

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

101	Shod-i Uforash and Ufor-i Tezash: Dilbaram Shumo	Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin	1:56
102	Mavrigi	Mahdi Ibodov	5:14
103	Songs from the Sozanda Repertory	Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin	13:32
104	Murghak	Mahdi Ibodov with Tofakhon and Ensemble Nozanin	2:56
105	Mogulcha-i Dugah	Ochil Ibragimov and Suleiman Takhalov	5:21
106	Ushshaq-i Kalon	Izro Malakhov with Mahmudjan Tojiboev, Kuva, Zakir Bobotonov, and Urgench	10:27
107	Azan	Saifullajan Musaev	1:54
108	Na't	Dervish Orif Bobo Hamro Ogli	3:20
109	Yah Ribbon Olam	Rakhamim Yakutelov	1:32
110	Reading from the Torah	Yakub Meer Ochildiev	2:53
111	Shalom Aleichem and Kiddush	Ochil Ibragimov	3:02
112	Qalandar	Muhammed Aminjon Nasriddinov	4:06
113	Excerpt from the Zohar	Isaac Kataev	2:38