#4327: Stateless Music

Hear music by people without a homeland, with music from the Hazaras of Central Asia by Hamid Sakhizada of Afghanistan, Qetiq - who play Uyghur and Kazakh music from Xinjiang in western China, David Darling and the Wulu Bunun of Taiwan, and Kurdish melodies.

Listen to Kurdish melodies collected by Armenian composer, mystic, and philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff and adapted by Russian pianist Thomas de Hartmann. This mystical piano music comes from areas in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran – collected from the Kurdish people, who have never had their own homeland.

Then, hear music from the Hazara of Central Asia by Hamid Sakhizada, a musician from Afghanistan who plays the the two-stringed, long-necked lute known as dambura. He discovered the Hazara traditional music of his own roots when he moved to Pakistan to study classical music, immersed himself in Hazara folk music and later had to relocate to Norway because of the persecution involved in keeping the culture alive. Listen to music from his latest, Dai Raft.

There’s music from the Bedouins, a nomadic people in North Africa and the Sinai peninsula. This is from a group of Sufi singers, the Bedouin Jerry Can Band, who make music out of the abandoned fuel containers and ammunition boxes left behind by the Israeli army. Listen also to music of the Uighur (Uyghur) people, Turkic Muslims in western China, lately suppressed by the Han Chinese majority (NY Times) in music by the group Qetiq. Hear their overtone singing meets country music – slash- old desert songs from the Taklamakan Desert colliding with rock and funk.

Also, hear "Lullaby," a traditional song from the descendants of slaves and Arab traders who inhabit Iran's southern coast from Kronos Quartet. Plus music from the Wulu Bunun, the indigenous people of Taiwan who live in the central highlands, made with cellist David Darling. And more. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4327: Stateless Music (First aired 2/10/2020)

ARTIST: Charles Ketcham
WORK: Gurdjieff/de Hartmann - No. 41 / Kurd Melody [1:00]
RECORDING:  Music for the Piano, Vol. 2
SOURCE: Wergo Germany
INFO: Available at Amazon.com 

ARTIST: Kamkars Ensemble
WORK: Beautiful Oraman [11:19]
RECORDING: Gol Nishan / Gol Neshan
SOURCE: Reissued 2010 on Ney davoud
INFO: Available at iTunes, Spotify, Amazon.com

ARTIST: Bedouin Jerry Can Band
WORK: Ya El Yaleladana [4:04]
RECORDING: Rough Guide to African Roots Revival
SOURCE: World Music Network RGNET1269
INFO: worldmusic.net

ARTIST: Laurence Rosenthal
WORK: Gurdjieff/de Hartmann - No. 33 / Kurd Melody from Isfahan [2:25]
RECORDING:  Music for the Piano, Vol. 2 
SOURCE: Wergo Germany
INFO: Available at Amazon.com 

ARTIST: Hamid Sakhizada
WORK: I Will Return (from Bamiyan) [4:31]
RECORDING: Dai Raft
SOURCE: Grappa Musikkforlag/Lidio
INFO: grappa.no

ARTIST: Hamid Sakhizada
WORK: The Traveller Moon [4:33]
RECORDING: Dai Raft
SOURCE: Grappa Musikkforlag/Lidio
INFO: grappa.no

ARTIST: Qetiq
WORK: Qara jorga [5:55]
RECORDING: Rock from Taklamakan Desert
SOURCE: Eastern Voices 21077
INFO: easternvoices.com

ARTIST: Kronos Quartet
WORK:  Lullaby [4:00]
RECORDING: Floodplain
SOURCE: Nonesuch 518349
INFO: nonesuch.com

ARTIST: David Darling & Wulu Bunun
WORK: Pis Lei [5:51]
RECORDING: Mudanin Kata
SOURCE: Riverboat #1032
INFO: worldmusic.net