Tag Archives: Central/West Asian Traditions

Many Middle Eastern troubadours of the first 20th hundred years were named following the instruments they played, and among the best-known and celebrated, Oudi Hrant, got his name in the stringed instrument called the oud. Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, Hrant set up a massive pursuing world-wide with Armenians, as well …

Lusine Zakarian (also credited while Lucineh Zakaryan) was a vocalist from Soviet Georgia. Of Armenian descent, she was created Svetlana Zakaryan in 1937, in Akhaltsikhe, and elevated in the southern portion of Soviet Georgia. The family members relocated to Yerevan when she is at her teenagers, and she later on …

The Aragvelebi Outfit is a 12-man vocal and instrumental group from the town of Tiblisi in the former Soviet state of Georgia, beneath the path of Zaouri Assatouni. Their 1993 record, Georgia, features traditional tracks off their homeland, using the group supported with a lute-like three-stringed device known as the …

An Armenian author of sacred and secular vocal music predicated on folksongs.

Before Madonna or Midori, before Liberace, almost a complete century before the one-name artists with whom we today feel therefore comfortable, there is Komitas, very most likely the first one-name musician today (ancient and Medieval times were, alternatively, filled with one-name people). The person who passed the name Komitas was …

Through the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, Yulduz Usmanova sold over five million albums worldwide before releasing Alma Alma, an album that highlights traditional instruments like the gijak and dombra with Usmanova’s distinctive voice.

Kanun participant Ara Topouzian has led many recordings of traditional Armenian music for his label, American Saving Productions, which targets Armenian and Middle Eastern music. Given birth to in Detroit, MI, Topouzian ultimately resided in Atlantic Town, where he performed the cornet while in college as well as the def …

With her shaved head and seven-octave vary, Sainkho Namtchylak would stick out on any stage. Add her particular mixture of Tuvan throat-singing and avant-garde improvisation, and she turns into an unforgettable body. The girl of a set of schoolteachers, she was raised within an isolated community in the Tuvan/Mongolian boundary, …

Formed beneath the auspices from the folksong and dance group the Rustavi Firm, the all-male Rustavi Choir (pronounced: roostahvi) continues to be sharing their appreciate of Soviet Georgia’s polyphonic vocal music for a lot more than three decades. The choir’s movie director, Anzor Erkomaishvili, a seventh era performer, produced the …

The full spectral range of Chinese music, which range from traditional tunes to modern compositions, continues to be explored from the Guo Brothers. Despite becoming raised in serious poverty, both brothers have become up to make a audio that “The Numen Music Middle” known as, “just beautiful Chinese language instrumental …