You are right about the time signature being western ear friendly. It is a popular taal (rhythmic cycle) known as teen taal, which is 16 beats. A lot of heavy classical taal's are generally confusing to westerners as they lack familiarity.
Is the guy on the right playing a sitar? I wonder if Indian musical instruments were introduced to Afghanistan through trade routes, or if a similar instrument developed independently......
This song soudns like it is in a western time signature, 4/4, do you think tey had the same kind of structure as far as time signatures go or did the musicians choose to play this because it was most palatable to the western ear. I would like to hear what traditional afghani music sounds like on one of these things
4/4 is not a "Western" time signature. I studied for many years with one of the last Afghani masters, Rafi Akbarzada. Much traditional classical music is in a 16 beat cycle or sometimes a simpler 4 or 8 beat rhythm for folk melodies. These musicians are not accommodating Western tastes, and they are playing quite well. Music is universal, and this is the music of the Silk Road. It has influences from across the entire breadth of the largest continent on the planet. Hindustani music has never fit neatly in a cultural box, nor will it ever. It is dynamic, adaptive and at its core improvisational. If you want to hear traditional Afghani music you are actually hearing it, although I will say the music of Kabul is very different from Kandahar for instance. On a side note, the Taliban hated the Rebab so much they cut down mulberry trees to keep them from being made. They were the symbol of a different, more cultured and refined Afghanistan than the barbarous open wound it has been left by the greed of superpowers, the thugishness of warlords and the demented religious insanity of fundamentalists. The last great rebab maker died recently. The instrument is nearly extinct, like the elegant and ancient culture that spawned this music. If the music sounds familiar and "Western" to you, it is because rhythms and melodies like this traveled back and forth along these trade routes for thousands of years. There is European influence there, along with East Asian, Indian, Persian, Arabic and more. I suggest you look deeper and shed your notion that music has borders or is confined by regional style, especially this ancient root form. It is at the base of what you hear in many cultures. In a way, "Western" music is but one branch, not a distinct tradition.
Gorgeous synthesis of Afghan and Hindustani music! And ode to the times of the Afghan and Indian friendship and trade!
The droning sound coming from that big instrument sounds so trippy
It's a tanpura
Rubaab, a genuine Afghan musical instrument played by Quraishi. Thanks for uploading such a rejuvenating and reviving music.
How beautiful sounds!!!
Amazing performance.
wow such marvelous music and talent hande musicuabs ❤❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️bravo
namekhoda aram wa modaqtar basheen 😁😁😁🌈🌈🌈🌺🌺🌺🌸🌸🌸🍎🍎🍎🥰🥰🥰🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful melodies. I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
What a nice piece of music! The fluency of Desh raag mixed with the addictive rabab, really feels so good!
You are right about the time signature being western ear friendly. It is a popular taal (rhythmic cycle) known as teen taal, which is 16 beats. A lot of heavy classical taal's are generally confusing to westerners as they lack familiarity.
But like teen taal is pretty popular anyways
Afghan music is the best.
Is the guy on the right playing a sitar? I wonder if Indian musical instruments were introduced to Afghanistan through trade routes, or if a similar instrument developed independently......
It's a tanpura
smeetb01 still from India.
Does anyone know how I can play this on guitar? I've tried RUclips. Asking for help to play for my Indian friend ❤
interesting and nice...thank you..
This song soudns like it is in a western time signature, 4/4, do you think tey had the same kind of structure as far as time signatures go or did the musicians choose to play this because it was most palatable to the western ear. I would like to hear what traditional afghani music sounds like on one of these things
I can't tell for sure but this is in Teen Taal which is 16/4 or four measures of 4/4 per cycle.
4/4 is not a "Western" time signature. I studied for many years with one of the last Afghani masters, Rafi Akbarzada. Much traditional classical music is in a 16 beat cycle or sometimes a simpler 4 or 8 beat rhythm for folk melodies. These musicians are not accommodating Western tastes, and they are playing quite well. Music is universal, and this is the music of the Silk Road. It has influences from across the entire breadth of the largest continent on the planet. Hindustani music has never fit neatly in a cultural box, nor will it ever. It is dynamic, adaptive and at its core improvisational. If you want to hear traditional Afghani music you are actually hearing it, although I will say the music of Kabul is very different from Kandahar for instance. On a side note, the Taliban hated the Rebab so much they cut down mulberry trees to keep them from being made. They were the symbol of a different, more cultured and refined Afghanistan than the barbarous open wound it has been left by the greed of superpowers, the thugishness of warlords and the demented religious insanity of fundamentalists. The last great rebab maker died recently. The instrument is nearly extinct, like the elegant and ancient culture that spawned this music. If the music sounds familiar and "Western" to you, it is because rhythms and melodies like this traveled back and forth along these trade routes for thousands of years. There is European influence there, along with East Asian, Indian, Persian, Arabic and more. I suggest you look deeper and shed your notion that music has borders or is confined by regional style, especially this ancient root form. It is at the base of what you hear in many cultures. In a way, "Western" music is but one branch, not a distinct tradition.
@@paulmercerevp thanks for your comment.
Is this instrument a form of Dotara?
***** no
Nice