Music from Central Asia

Link TV offers stunning documentaries on music from Central Asia, part of a project of the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia (Aga Khan Trust for Culture) and the Smithsonian Institution Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

See for example mountain music from Krygyzstan, a documentary on Badakhshan Ensemble from the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, the Shashmaqam style of court music, and on the Afghan rubab player Homayun Sakhi, among many others. Well worth a watch!

Thank you very much to Zayra for alerting us to this.