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Mirwais Ahmadzaï (born 23 October 1960), known mononymously as Mirwais, is a French electronic dance music record producer and songwriter, born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Afghan father and an Italian mother.
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.
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
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".
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.
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 .
Classical Afghan music often features this instrument as a key component. Elsewhere it is known as the Kabuli rebab in contrast to the Seni rebab of India. [3] In appearance, the Kabuli rubab looks slightly different from the Indian rubab. [7] It is the ancestor of the north Indian sarod, although unlike the sarod, it is fretted. [8]
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 ...