Sufi Music From Sindhi Pakistan

The Sindhi Music Ensemble | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 1995)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 1995
• Label: Wergo Germany
• ASIN: B000005W8C
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #795,676 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Instrumental/Rag Jogiya

2. Dhamal Qalandar Shahbaz

3. Kafi Von Shah Abdul Latif/Rag Lorrao

4. Instrumental/Rag Kohiuyari

5. Way of Shah Abdul Latif/Rag Sindhi Behrwee

6. Instrumental/Rag Bhrewee

7. Poem Of Sachal Sarmast/Rag Sindhi Behrwee

8. Instrumental/Rag Durga

9. Thari Lok Geet

10. Instrumental/Rag Lorrao

11. Kafi Of Sufi Ali Mohammad/Rag Sorath

12. Poem Of Chandur/Rag Zilo

13. Instrumental/Rag Darbari

14. Kafi Of Shah Abdul Latif/Rag Sohni

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Sufi Sindhi Soul, November 9, 2000

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"newamsterdamman" (NY, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sufi Music From Sindhi Pakistan (Audio CD)

This collection of Indus River Music via the Sufi tradition of Sindh ranges from the passionately serious to the soulfully fun: production quality is superb, documentation complete and artful. Should be satisfying to any admirer of Indian/Middle Eastern music....

4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual Folk Instruments and Sufi Songs, January 29, 2011

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sufi Music From Sindhi Pakistan (Audio CD)

Recorded in Berlin in 1992, these pieces, based on raga modes, are performed on numerous unusual but traditional folk instruments of southern Pakistan: a surando, which is sarangi-like fiddle; an ektara, which resembles a long-necked erhu and serves as a drone; a danbura, which is a pair-shaped, saz-like lute; an alghoza double reed, which plays both melody and drone; a benu, being a bamboo flute; harmonium; and finally a dholak two-faced drum. Accompanied by singers, the timbre rests in the treble range, and the engineering does not help by its distant flatness, though the sound is very clear. With dances, tales, a wedding song, and instrumentals, this German prize-winning album does present the Sufi spirit from a area poorly represented among available recordings. If you know only of Qawwali Pakistani Sufi music and its bright, rhythmic songs of harmonium, voice, and clapping, you will appreciate this 73-minute long album and its different instruments and feeling.