Kafiristan/Nuristan - Chitral Music and Songs

PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN MUSIC

1. Flutes Harp and Drums

2. Female & Children Voices, drum and harp

3. Hand Clapping Flutes Harp and Drums

4. Male voice and Harp

5. Harp Drum and voices

6. Male voice hand clapping and Drum

7. Harp Solo

8. Male voices and Drum hand clapping

9. Solo voices chorus drums and whistling

10. Solo voices chorus and Drums

These recordings which were made in 1971 during the Autumn Festivities in honor of Jestak, represent the first formal documents of an almost unknown ethnic group and are therefore of particular anthropological and ethnomusicological interest.