Qawwali:
Mehr Ali and Sher Ali
"Az Hoosne Malihe Khud," the Sabri Brothers
From Balochistan: Music of Makran (various artists)
From Kashmir: Call of the Valley (Shivkumar Sharma et al.)
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Qawwali:
Mehr Ali and Sher Ali
"Az Hoosne Malihe Khud," the Sabri Brothers
From Balochistan: Music of Makran (various artists)
From Kashmir: Call of the Valley (Shivkumar Sharma et al.)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: Devotional & Love Songs, The Last Prophet
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook: Night Song, Mustt Mustt
Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan: Endless Vision (Persian, Armenian)
Burhan Ocal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble: Caravanserai (Turkish)
Various: The Silk Road ('Central Asian')
Music of Afghanistan
The Afghan Music Project (various artists)
Heat of the Robab (Humayou)
Memories of Herat (Aziz Herawi)
Robab of Herat (Mohammed Rahim Khushnawaz)
There were a number of technical difficulties in this show....
Last week of 'Persian' music:
Without You (Masters of Persian Music)
The Rain (Ghazal)
More of 'classical Persian' music:
Faryad ("The Cry"): Masters of Persian Music (Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Kayhan Kalhor, Hossein Alizadeh, Homayoun Shajarian)
Without You: Masters of Persian Music
We'll actually have one more week of classical Persian music (on Thanksgiving!) and then start with music from Afghanistan.
Continuing with 'classical Persian' music:
Persian & Middle Eastern Percussion (Zarbang)
Whisper (Ali Akbar Moradi, Pejman Hadadi)
Night Silence Desert (Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Kayhan Kalhor)
Next week will be more Persian music, and the week after that (or, two weeks after that), we'll be looking at music from Afghanistan.
PS The music doesn't start until around 0:40.
PPS I'm pretty sure the daf is not made of wool. Please forgive my orientalist ignorance.
Last week of 'Middle Eastern' music
'Armenian':
Moon Shines at Night (Djivan Gasparyan)
'Persian/Kurdish':
Iran: Persian Classical Music (Faramarz Payvar Ensemble)
In the Mirror of the Sky (Kayhan Kalhor, Ali Akbar Moradi)
We'll continue with Persian music for the next two weeks.
Masters of the Arabian Flute (Mohammed Naiem)
Sufi Traveler (Mercan Dede)
Al-Asma Al-Husna (Jama'a Majhula)
Naseer Shamma: Maqamat Ziryab (Desde el Eufrates al Guadalquivir)
Rabih Abou-Khalil: Tarab, Nafas
Week Four isn't going to make it, as the recording is of very low quality.
'North African' music
North Africa, generally: Arabesque (Natacha Atlas et al.)
From Tunisia: Malak (Dhafer Youssef)
From Egypt/Senegal: Egypt (Youssou N'Dour)
Nubian: Music of Nubia and A Song of the Nile (Hamza el Din)
Warning: The program begins half-way through the introduction, and the first song skips several times.
'Spanish' music
Traditional flamenco: Gino d'Auri, Isaac Albeniz
Nuevo flamenco: B-Tribe
Celtic: Hevia
West/North Africa fusion: Radio Tarifa
WARNING: The volume levels on this show are, for some odd reason, really low, so watch for other audio files that might play while listening to this.
Introduction to the show: Loreena McKennit; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (The Prayer Cycle); Samuel Barber; Sergei Rachmaninov; JS Bach