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The album was released in France on 8 June 2009. All songs are performed by her. It is 'Arabic Avant-Garde Music'". In an interview on 13 January 2007 published on lecourrier.ch, Mirwais said, "At the moment I work with Yasmine Hamdan (one half of Lebanon electro-duo Soapkills). The idea is that today, in Western culture, we hear about Arabs ...
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.
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Mirwais is a first name of Pashto origin. Notable people with the name include: Mirwais Ahmadzaï (born 1960), known as Mirwais, Paris-based record producer and songwriter; Mirwais Azizi founder and owner of Azizi Bank; Mirwais Ashraf (born 1980), member of the Afghanistan national cricket team; Mirwais Hotak (1673-1715), Emir of Afghanistan
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.
Adapted by Mirwais Ahmadzaï. "Junkie's Prayer" contains samples from an original soundtrack of the short film Louange (1995) by Jean-Paul Allègre. "Miss You" is a cover originally by The Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The song also contains a sample of Mirwais' "Disco Science".
Of all the Afghan musicians, the person most closely associated with creating the distinct Afghan sound of music is Ahmad Zahir. After the great Afghan singer Sarban, Zahir played the most vital role in the development of the Afghan musical style. Highly educated, well-travelled, and an extraordinarily gifted musician, Zahir had an overwhelming ...
Afghan musicians, Herat 1973 The classical music of Afghanistan is called klasik , which includes both instrumental ( rāgas , naghmehs ) and vocal forms ( ghazals ). [ 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 .