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The music video of the first single, "2016 – My Generation", premiered on Nowness on 19 April 2021. [10] The music video was directed by Ludovic Houplain/ H5paris, based on an original idea by Ahmadzaï. "2016 – My Generation" was then released through all DSP platforms on 21 April 2021, making it the first single Ahmadzaï released in 20 ...
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
In the two years that Mirwais worked on his second album, "Naïve Song" was one of the last songs he has composed and included on Production. Several remixes were released to promote the song including remixes from Dave Clarke, Les Rhythmes Digitales, and Olav Basoski. The song reached number two on the US Club dance chart on April 14, 2001. [1]
The return was marked with a three-hour live broadcast in Pashto and Dari languages, as well as a reading of the Quran, music videos, cartoons, news and interviews. The Kabul station still operated on equipment dating back to the early 70s while its transmitter had a 10-watt reach and didn't cover the whole of Kabul, meaning that the city ...
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 title track "Salaam Afghanistan" was for seven weeks top of the charts on Arman FM, the country's main music radio station. [ 8 ] Amid the situation in Afghanistan with the large International Security Assistance Force presence, and not long after the Taliban regime, Salaam Afghanistan and its popularity was thus covered by Western media.
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]