VA Ethnic Minority Music Of Northwest Xinjiang

Ethnic Minority Music Of Northwest Xinjiang, China (2010)  •  info

"Fantastic live recordings by Laurent Jeanneau and Shi Tanding from the northwest Chinese territory of Xinjiang. Includes magnificent and unique varieties of traditional Islamic folk music with traces of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish influences heard throughout. The players are Kazakh, Uyghur, Kirgiz and Mongol Erut musicians performing on a wide array of local stringed instruments including dongbra, topchar, komuz, rushtar, rawab and tchang."  - Sublime Frequencies