Various - Folk Music Of China, Vol. 18 - Folk Songs Of The Uyghur People

NAXOS WORLD

£10.89

Cat. no: NXW761052
Format: CD
Barcode: 0636943710524
Release Date: 22 Oct 2021
Genre: World Music

This series explores China’s rich and diverse musical heritage. Folk songs from the Uyghur peoples of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

This album features six folk songs from the Yili region in northern Xinjiang, five folk songs from Kashgar and Artux in southern Xinjiang and two excerpts from the Uyghur Twelve Muqam. All are played on traditional instruments such as rewap, dap, tembor and dotar. This is volume eighteen of a twenty album series, exploring China’s rich and diverse musical heritage.

Tracks: Black Eyes / Song of the Coachman / White Fish / My Fair Lady / White Steed / My Sparrow Hawk / My Charming Lover / Mountains at the Yingjisha County / Pomegranates of Kashi / My Lover / A Folk Song of Atux / P njigah Muqam / zhal Muqam Excerpt