Chatorkhand Party: Music of Kho People, Pakistan, by Asif Zaman Band

Chatorkhand Party: Music of Kho People, Pakistan

by Asif Zaman Band

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1.	Your company is enchanting \| To ma nasha 03:59	buy track
2.	Your eyes are piercing into my heart \| Xano dushman ta ghech hardio eshtogh 03:43	buy track
3.	I cannot describe how I live \| Ajab e queesa ma zindagio 06:00	buy track
4.	Your eyes make me mad \| Awo gaderi ta ghechan gaderi 05:58	buy track
5.	Festivity of life \| Ye zindagi ke mele 05:07	buy track
6.	All in this world is for my beloved but I did not know \| Haya dunya hamosar hoy ma sada xan kia habar 05:17	buy track
7.	I spent very beautiful time with you \| Kecha sheyli e waqar oshoy na 03:47	buy track

about

Folk music of the Kho people from mountainous Ishkoman valley, Ghizer district, Gilgit-Baltistan territory, Pakistan.

The Kho are numbered about 200.000 in Pakistan and 20.000 in neighbouring India. Khowar, their language ("war" means "language"), is an Indo-Aryan tongue belonging to the same sub-group as Kashmiri.

The party took place in Chatorkhand village at Asif Zaman's house where his family was welcoming friends from Hunza valley together with Antonovka Records team. Those can occasionally be heard in the background.

The songs are in Khowar except track 3 (in both Urdu and Khowar) and track 5 (in Urdu). Main topic is love. Track 5 is about ups and downs of life and originates from 1948 movie "Mela" ("The Fair").

Main musical instrument is a local sitar (a long necked lute related to Pamir setor and not to be confused with Indian sitar). Asif makes sitars himself. Drumming is performed on an empty gas canister (usual practice in the area) by his brother Shah Zaman. The brothers are joined by their friend Mehboob Alam on vocals.

Recorded in Chatorkhand, 12 Dec 2018.
Performers:
Syed Asif Zaman - sitar (1-7), lead vocal (1,2,4,6,7)
Syed Shah Zaman - gas canister (2-7)
Mehboob Alam - lead vocal (3, 5)

NB: This album was recorded in the field as local traditional music, however some of the songs may have been subject to 3rd party copyright. If you are rightholder of those or have any other copyright related concerns, please write to us at aa@antonovka.online .