Aga Khan Music Initiative

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:51 pm

Introduction to Abdurakhman Pasha

Performed by Ubulhäsän Muhämmät. Filmed by Rahile Dawut, Aynur Kadir, Nijat Niyaz, and Aysajan Yusup, Khotan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_AB8avHI2c

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Profile of Farhod Davletov

Excerpt from documentary film by Saodat Ismailova and Carlos Casas in In the Shrine of the Heart: Popular Classics from Bukhara and Beyond (DVD), vol. 7 of Music of Central Asia (SFR, 2010).

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1piQ1opEzc

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"Chong Kazat" (The great campaign)

Urkash Mambetaliev recites the episode "Chong Kazat" (The great campaign) from Manas.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe2bEJRuw

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:44 pm

"Dafsoz"

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-_dXixZ4Dg

Performed in Suchon by Abdulakim Abdurakhimov (sarbaytkhon), Aliyar Bakhtiyarov, Shanbe Oshurmamadov, Sultonsaid Dodmamadov, Asadbek Shodmonbekov, and Shirinjon Olamov.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:28 pm

Aitysh

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAgUuRBpak8

Aitysh between Aaly Tutkuchev and Qanysha Raisova (excerpt). Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:45 pm

Improvisation of "Qushtar"

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7312SCKoG7w

Performed by Sirojddin Juraev (Tajikistan, dutar), Rebal Alkhodri (Syria, vocal), and Badiaa Bou Hreizi (Tunisia, vocal).

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:41 pm

The art of the Afghan rubab: A musical conversation

A concert titled, The Art of the Afghan Rubab, took place in partnership with the Asia Society Texas Center, the Aga Khan Music Initiative and the Ismaili Council for the United States. The concert was held on October 11, and featured the Aga Khan Master Musicians, who create music inspired by their own deep roots in the cultures of the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin, South Asia, Central Asia, and China.

Brought together by the Aga Khan Music Initiative to explore how musical innovation can contribute to the revitalization of cultural heritage, the Master Musicians are venerated performers and composer-arrangers who appear on the world’s most prestigious stages, while also serving as preeminent teachers, mentors, and curators.

The concert included musicians, Homayoun Sakhi, master performer on Afghan rubab and composer who brings together Eastern and Western musical languages and instruments; Abbos Kosimov, a disciple of the honored Uzbek doira player and international percussionist; and, special guest Nitin Mitta, of Hyderabad, India, on tabla. Each of these exceptional artists has achieved mastery within a rigorous musical tradition defined by canonical styles, repertoires, pedagogy, and performance techniques. At the same time, they share a belief that tradition can serve as an invaluable compass for an artistic search into new forms of creativity inspired, but not constrained by the past.

The Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI) is an interregional music and arts education program with worldwide performance, outreach, mentoring, and artistic production activities. Launched to support talented musicians and music educators working to preserve, transmit and further develop their musical heritage in contemporary forms. It began its work in Central Asia, subsequently expanding its cultural development activities to include artistic communities and audiences in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. AKMI promotes the revitalization of cultural heritage both as a source of livelihood for musicians and as a means to strengthen pluralism in nations where it is challenged by social, political, and economic constraints.

The concert was nothing less than inspiring and uplifting, providing the audience with a lens into the blending of musical talents, cultures, and imagination through what felt like a lively and playful conversation between the artists and the audience.

AKMI manages the new Aga Khan Music Awards, which presented its first prizes, totaling $500,000, at a ceremony in Lisbon at the end of March 2019. A final concert there brought together ten laureates, in six categories and from 13 countries, illustrating their diversity and pluralism through music. The Awards were presented by Mawlana Hazar Imam, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and Prince Amyn.

Photos at:

https://the.ismaili/usa/art-afghan-ruba ... nversation

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:19 pm

Homayun Sakhi

Homayun Sakhi (Afghanistan/USA, Afghan rubab), leads an arrangement of the Indian raga madhuvanti at Remix interregional music workshop, Al Ganaina Theater, Al Azhar Park Cairo, co-produced by Al Mawred Al Thaqafy (Cultural Resource) and the Aga Khan

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yql6XGI ... rce=Direct

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:06 pm

Badakhshan Ensemble

Badakhshan Ensemble performing at a teenager's birthday party. Filmed by Saodat Ismailova and Carlos Casas, Badakhshan.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLuK7lqGUU

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 5:22 pm

Epic singing, Dashoguz

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8vKoBJTisE

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:20 pm

Maddo-khani

Video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHwBP6p9VZk

Qaid-khani, or maddo-khani, is a form of musical performance practiced among Isma’ili Muslims in Badakhshan.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sat Nov 16, 2019 3:50 pm

Oktyaber, terme Tughan elim

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoaOQ31RB14

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:42 pm

London Uyghur Ensemble

Musical Geographies of Central Asia Conference & Concert: London Uyghur Ensemble

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4QR-e0qrLk

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:36 pm

Jamilya Gurbanova

Musical Geographies of Central Asia concert: Jamilya Gurbanova

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6PciD ... rce=Direct

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:41 pm

Gargy-tuiduk, Mary

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_XDBtBWy0

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:42 pm

Tambur Music of the Avar People

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ImrtSLS50

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Dec 15, 2019 5:45 pm

Giovanni de Zorzi, ney

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pENSOz1 ... rce=Direct

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference & Concert - Giovanni de Zorzi, ney

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:32 pm

Bakhtiyar Amanzhol

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmG3CYlJQM

Musical Geographies of Central Asia concert - Bakhtiyar Amanzhol

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:40 pm

Epic singing, Mary

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTX6XkUurko

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:25 pm

Saida Daukeyeva, Institute of Musical Research

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiwQqq ... rce=Direct

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference & Concert - Saida Daukeyeva, Institute of Musical Research

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:06 pm

Gochag Askarov and Azeri Mugham Performers

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JhctKUdGM

Musical Geographies of Central Asia Conference & Concert: Gochag Askarov and Azeri Mugham Performers

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:04 pm

Chapak dance, Lebap

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJx_uQdg2Y

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:06 pm

Ustad Rahim

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AulpPSpeA

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:44 pm

Megan M. Rancier, Bowling Green State University

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PVSN6jUTk

Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference & Concert

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:49 pm

Excerpt from the dastan Patimämning wapatnamisi (The death of Fatima)
Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDkLvB4tXY

Performed by Mämättokhti Yasin. Filmed by Aynur Kadir, Khotan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:53 pm

Introduction to Yüsüp-Ähmäd

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYlaU_LOHNQ

Performed by Turdimämät Nasir. Filmed by Rahile Dawut and Mutallip Iqbal, Khotan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Wed Feb 05, 2020 9:20 pm

Excerpts from the Ceremony of Zikr

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lItZSAANmX4

Ghulja (Yining), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:01 pm

Shodi Mabatqulov

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkSd_5R8wU

Shodi Mabatqulov demonstrates frame drum (daf) rhythms.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:05 pm

Fragments from the qasida "Risola-yi Chihil Dunyo" (Treatise of the forty worlds)

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZRir6aUK4

Fragments from the qasida "Risola-yi Chihil Dunyo" (Treatise of the forty worlds) and a qasida known as "Naqsh-i dolon" (Corridor decoration), by Muborak Wakhoni, performed by Khalifa Mamadbek on the balandmaqom. Wakhan.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:25 pm

"Echo of Time" (Mezgil jangyrygy)

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHIm4kbgMlA

Composed and arranged by Kambar Kalendarov.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:46 pm

Rysbek Jumabayev_quality test

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52EL6xess4

Rysbek Jumabaev recites from Manas.
Filmed by Saodat Ismailova and Carlos Casas.

kmaherali · Post by **kmaherali** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:06 pm

AKMI E bedaya

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByYvqYDxiTQ

The Aga Khan Music Initiative Ensemble is a collective of master musicians who create new music inspired by cultural heritage of the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin,