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The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi'a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.
In April 2008, after two years of negotiations with Afghan authorities, Sarmast went again to Afghanistan to lead and implement the establishment of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). [7] In 2013, ANIM's Afghan Youth Orchestra toured the United States, including performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. [3] [6]
Jill Turner of GondwanaSound Radio rated it amongst the best compilation albums of the year. [5] Chris Nickson of AllMusic praised the variety of the recording, [6] while Deanne Sole of PopMatters wrote that Broughton's choice to select a wide range of styles meant that the listener would not hear the absolute best of Afghan music, but that the album gives an "opportunity to listen to the ...
Ahmad Sarmast's father, Ustad Salim Sarmast, was a famous musician, composer and conductor in Afghanistan, and the young Sarmast grew up exposed to a wide variety of musical influences. [1] [2] [3] Sarmast graduated from an Afghan music school in 1981. [4] He later left Afghanistan in the 1990s due to the Afghan civil war.
The classical music of Afghanistan is called klasik, which includes both instrumental (rāgas, naghmehs) and vocal forms . [1] Many ustad , or professional musicians, are descended from Indian artists who emigrated to the royal court in Kabul in the 1860s upon the invitation of Amir Sher Ali Khan .
A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.
The Zohra Orchestra was formed in 2015 in Kabul by the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and its founder Dr Ahmad Sarmast. The institute was formed in 2008 with the goal of bringing a musical education to young Afghans in the wake of liberation from the Taliban, under whom women's rights in Afghanistan were severely curtailed.
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