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