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

101	Shod-i Uforash / Ufor-i Tezash: Dilbaram Shumo (You Are My Dear One)	Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin	01:56
102	Mavrigi	Mahdi Ibodov	05:14
103	Songs from the Sozanda Repertory	Tofakhon with Ensemble Nozanin	13:32
104	Murghak (Chicklet)	Mahdi Ibodov with Tofakhon and Ensemble Nozanin	02:56
105	Mogulcha-i Dugah	Ochil Ibragimov and Suleiman Takhalov	05:21
106	Ushshaq-i Kalon (Great Ushshaq)	Izro Malakhov with Mahmudjan Tojiboev, Kuva, Zakir Bobotonov, and Urgench	10:27
107	Azan	Saifullajan Musaev	01:54
108	Na't	Dervish Orif Bobo Hamro Ogli	03:20
109	Yah Ribbon Olam (Lord of This World)	Rakhamim Yakutelov	01:32
110	Reading from the Torah	Yakub Meer Ochildiev	02:53
111	Shalom Aleichem and Kiddush	Ochil Ibragimov	03:02
112	Qalandar	Muhammed Aminjon Nasriddinov	04:06
113	Excerpt from the Zohar	Isaac Kataev	02:38