Music Furthest from the Sea – Vol. 1

Music Furthest from the Sea – Vol. 1 : Pop Sounds of the unStan


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Hi all – just in the nick of time for last minute Holiday gifting or at any time, here’s a very special CD-kit download I’ve just cooked up for you right from my Urumqi lair! With a few easy clicks you can send yourself and/or a loved one on a 74 minute trip to my side of the planet with this compilation of some of the very yummy local Uyghur pop music that assaults the neighborhood day to day.
Come on, do it! you know you wanna!
1. Download,
2. Burn,
3. Print,
4. Assemble….

Easy as pie! And best of all, it’s FREE! One zipped file containing all you need: all tracks, plus printable cover art can be downloaded by

clicking HERE

(OR if you’re inside of mainland China, download from a Shanghai mirror HERE (thanks to Lawrence))

But you say you want to sample the goods before commiting to the 105MB download? Yeesh!…. but okay…fair enough, and it’ll save me some bandwidth if you’re actually just snooping around for freebie top-40 mush .
click on the little music players below for song samples:

Dutarim

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Yarbagi

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Yakhsan

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LOW-RES version of the full cover art is here: FRONT and BACK
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from the cover info:
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“Nim Bolde!
Officially labeled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, this northwestern expanse of the P. R. C. contains some of the most disorienting cultural terrain that any visitor expecting “China” will experience, as the Uyghur are distinct ethnically, culturally, linguistically and historically from the land that governs.

Among modern regional cultivations is a prolific, fantastically vibrant popular music scene sadly little known outside this territory. A stroll down my street for example, past the side by side VCD shops and through swarming street bazaars, charms you with an ear splitting, walking collage of the most deliciously infectious local pop sounds. Traditional instruments, heavy drums, local flavor Casiotone and powerful, ornamented vocals deliver an unequivocally unique fruit of these lands – a land that at once processes it’s place within these borders while maintaining a fixed grip on a continually challenged cultural identity.

For this collection, I simply went out into the street…into tiny, booth sized shops and to carts selling pirated discs; listened to and bought the ones that I,
A: thought well represented part of the recent local soundscape;
B: just really dug; or
C: took a chance on because they were cheap.

There’s a mixture of production value here, but I felt it fair to represent from the spectrum one hears, which ranges from polished, studio recordings to a notch barely above karaoke machine productions. Most of these songs are Uyghur, with the few exceptions of the occasional Uzbek artists within who are also very popular here. So there you go, in the spirit of sharing, a gift from your man in the city furthest from the sea!
I hope you enjoy!
-FC

brought to you by:
the Royal Oculus & Gramophone Company – Ãœrümqi, PRC. 2007

original cover photograph “Kashgar Girls w/ Shades” by Miradel Hassan.
compilation & design by Fausto Caceres.
thanks to Kalbinur and Nisagul for translation help.”

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so, if you haven’t yet,
click HERE to begin your download. 105 MB (zipped file)
(China mainlanders, use this mirror: HERE (thanks again to Lawrence))

and hey, if you like this one, and would like to see more (say,a series!), have requests, etc, please leave a comment, will ya!

87 Comments

  1. David Longey said,

    December 23, 2006 at 2:18 am

    Hi Fausto-
    Wow, 2006 has been a busy year for you- I’m very excited to hear what treasures you’ve got in your bag! Downloading now.
    Thanks for everything you do- your talents for channeling such a diverse world of sounds into our ears is everlastingly appreciated-!
    -Dave

  2. J Lesser said,

    December 23, 2006 at 2:36 am

    Currently rocking hard – thanks #1.

    Happy and Merry!

  3. Ninah Pixie said,

    December 23, 2006 at 5:36 am

    Hey there Fausto!!!

    This project is blowing my mind apart. You and your talents and ever-loving huge heart. This is so great to finally see what you’ve been experiencing and how much work you’re doing there. Thanks for sharing all of this with us.
    Take good care of yourself out there and we look forward to your next “transmission”– happy end-of-the-year, too and continued success and good health.
    ~Ninah

  4. Mom and Dad said,

    December 23, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Great work, Son! We’ll share it with all the family and friends at our annual get together. You’ll be missed very much…but you’ll be there in spirit, too. Merry Christmas and God bless you and bestow all His great love and keep you throught the new year and always. All our love,
    Mom, Dad and Erika (and Rocky, too).

  5. lance said,

    December 23, 2006 at 1:22 pm

    hurumph and bah-humbug! I get a corrupt message each time i try to open it. why don’t you like me? i’ve tried downloading it several times and it never works.

  6. lance said,

    December 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm

    for anyone having problems, I just said to our dear fausto:

    “now THAT worked perfectly! thank you! thank you you! thank you! since its late here, it will be my soundtrack for tomorrow. “

    cheers all.

  7. Fausto said,

    December 23, 2006 at 1:41 pm

    hmm – is anyone else having problems downloading and unzipping ? i admit, my upload to the server from here was very slow and may have corrupted the file in the process, i can’t tell.
    If you have problems, I just added links to a mirror of the same file on a different server that seemed to upload quite a bit more smoothly. just look in the original post above and let me know if it works!

    to save you from scrolling, just try it:
    HERE

  8. Eric Boros said,

    December 24, 2006 at 1:14 am

    Salaam!
    Rasjilukim is the best tune I’ve heard in 2006. Do you have more by this guy?
    Incredible.
    And thanks!
    Eric.

  9. Fausto said,

    December 24, 2006 at 1:32 am

    yeah – that’s Abdurehiim Heyit – the most smokin dutar player around! – (thats the long-necked 2 string Uyghur lute, for those that don’t know). Amazingly, he lives in the same compound that I do here in Urumqi, just a building and a half down. I see him all the time. There’s a newer CD he just released that I’ve heard playing about. I need to pick that up and include some in the next round.
    I did post a video track off the VCD that the track above is from on YouTube – you can see him doing his thing there. He really does slay. link below:
    Abdurehim Heyit

  10. univac said,

    December 24, 2006 at 7:17 am

    Yay! Communications from the remote broadcast site! We had thought you’d been taken by unfriendly forces and dropped into a stinking pit of yak’s piss (fermented).
    Glad to hear from you Mr. Fausto!!
    I am unzipping as we speak (the file, not the pants) and am preparing for a journey into the Uyghur Pop Planet!
    Alley, Fin, Ash, and I are well. We hope to hear more from you soon.
    And, a regular comp would be a great idea!!
    Be well.
    Love….tom

  11. alexis said,

    December 24, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    holy smokes fausty,
    i am downloading now, hopefully eventless in the unzipping and zipping.
    xoxo,
    a

  12. alexis said,

    December 25, 2006 at 5:31 pm

    Dear Dr Nightcap,
    I have unzipped and unzipped and unzipped, and I just cant seem to find it! How can something so BIG be so hard to find? Help!
    Signed,
    embarrased and distressed

  13. Fausto (aka Dr. Nightcap) said,

    December 25, 2006 at 11:47 pm

    dear Ms. embarrassed and distressed -
    - hmmm- so let me get this straight, your download goes fine, and you decompress without any errors, but you can’t find the files?
    try searching your harddrive for the folder called:
    CD_MusicFurthestFromTheSea_Vol1

    if that doesn’t work, did you try using the alternate link posted above? (look at the #7 comment, or in the orignal post)

    is anyone else still having trouble?
    -Fausto

  14. Katyana said,

    December 26, 2006 at 4:13 pm

    Here is a toast to the upcoming New Year, Fausto!

    Sending you wishes for health, new adventures, love and every happiness in 2007.

    [Hi everybody! What a great crew leaving comments!]

    .

  15. Katyana said,

    December 28, 2006 at 12:05 am

    From your desert to mine, Music Furthest from the Sea, streams out of the kitchen onto the patio sifting through cacti, cycads and palms. Accompanies bright clementines from these trees, steaming spiced nut moloko and bowls of ginger cardamom morning rice. Yurrekke Tolghan Dert transforms my dust and sands into your ice crystals and street vendors.

    Thank you for this beautiful collection. [I see our pixie friend swirling and flowing to this soundtrack, don't you?] You are kind to share the sights and sounds of your world with us. Many thanks, Fausto.

    .

  16. Fausto said,

    December 28, 2006 at 11:08 am

    hey all – the earthquake in Taiwan has chopped up many of the underwater internet cables that link mainland China to much of the world it seems – so as it is, I can’t use email or much internet right now – even way the heck out here in Xinjiang! I just can’t access my US based mail server with more than a 6 bytes an hour connection. If this comment submission works, I’ll be lucky. I think late night is more likely to work, as there’s less traffic.
    just sayin…if you haven’t heard back from me in the last 2 days, that’s the reason.

  17. Vincent said,

    January 23, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Dear Fausto,

    I love what you’re doing here, I would love to see more (say, a series =D), and I have a request that you continue doing this great work, so I am leaving a comment.

    I’ve plugged your awesome blog into my feedread and look forward to some more great Uyghur goodness.

    Vincent

  18. davesgonechina said,

    January 25, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Hey Fausto,

    For all of us within China, any chance you can upload it to a server in China so we don’t have to use the broken cable?

  19. Fausto said,

    January 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    that’d be great – i agree!
    got any suggestions of where i can mirror within the PRC?

  20. Lawrence said,

    January 27, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Why not make a torrent of it? bittorrent is perfect for this kind of stuff.
    If thats not possible, and you need a mirror, let me know, I can throw it on one of my servers in Shanghai.
    Lawrence / http://www.computersolutions.cn

  21. The Conjecturer » I Want Those Sunglasses, Too said,

    January 28, 2007 at 11:08 pm

    [...] If you like listening to foreign music, as I do, then this compilation of Uyghur music, Music Furthest from the Sea, put together by Fausto from the Shirley and Spinoza radio stream, is a must. Via the excellent Opposite End of China blog. [...]

  22. Fausto said,

    January 29, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    alrighty China based downloaders: you may NOW download the file from a Shanghai based mirror.
    Thanks to Lawrence Sheed at computersolutions.cn for the help!

    the link has been added to the original post.
    -FC

  23. Rayhan said,

    January 30, 2007 at 11:57 am

    I just went to the computersolutions.cn site but could not find the link to download this file. Can you be more specific (I live in China). Thanks.

  24. Fausto said,

    January 30, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Rayhan -
    Sorry if that ws confusing. You don’t have to go to the computersolutions website (unless you’re interested in their services of course), I was just giving ‘thankyou’ credit.
    You should use the link I’ve added up in the post. The one that says “If you’re in China….” etc.
    -FC

  25. Bir Uyghur said,

    January 31, 2007 at 1:32 am

    Thnaks very much for the collection.

  26. Nick said,

    January 31, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Fausto, thanks for these magnificent mixes. Your mention of the popularity of Uzbek artists in Xinjiang brings to mind an Uyghur joke:

    ‘When you speak Uyghur badly, you are speaking Uzbek.’

  27. Another Uyghur said,

    February 1, 2007 at 4:31 am

    Great job! thank you very much…

  28. Zhongtang said,

    February 3, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    Fausto, this is excellent music. I especially enjoy the King of Dutar video. We’re lucky to have an authentic Uyghur restaurant in the Montreal Chinatown, however it doesn’t seem much popular yet.

    I hope you enjoy life in Xinjiang.

  29. tuhafiye said,

    February 7, 2007 at 4:31 am

    Dear Fausto,

    thanks a lot for putting the music up. Do you also have the lyrics in Uyghur Arabic script or in transcript? That would come in handy for a class in Turkic studies we’re doing here in Berlin.

  30. Fausto said,

    February 7, 2007 at 10:41 am

    tuhafiye,
    unfortunately, I don’t have lyrics. Tracks were extracted from VCD music videos and they generally have little or next to no information included in the disc packaging except, artist, track name and production credits… BUT if anyone out there has or can translate any of these songs, i’ll post here.
    -F

  31. chon_dada said,

    February 7, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    Essalamu eleykum, Fausto, ehvallar qandaq? :)

    I am still waiting for full versions of “Shirley & Spinoza” or like that? :)

    Pleeaaaaaaaaaseeee:)

    Thanks for new things, downloading.

  32. Kelvin said,

    February 11, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Excellent post and thanks again for delivering the goods!

    Is it me or does Shahrizoda’s production seem somewhat slicker than the rest? Looks like an Uzbek group has found and capitalized on a niche following in Xinjiang?

    Anxiously awaiting the second installment.

  33. Miguel said,

    February 11, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    PLEASE MORE :)
    fantastic Music … doesn’t sound so far away from the sea … Let thousand Camels blossom as someone said before … or was ist about music … flowers … pachanga … we’ll never know … but one thing for sure … the world ain’t that big … but then again not that small either… keep on trucking… I mean where is VOl. 2 …????
    THANKS ;)

  34. Nyura said,

    February 24, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Am enjoying the collection but wow — it sounds a whole lot more like North Africa than anything I’ve heard yet from neighbor to the west (Kazakhstan), or Mongolia, or the rest of China. Who knew?

  35. John said,

    February 25, 2007 at 6:41 am

    Belatedly, thank you for tickling the ipod from afar.
    FOR BEST
    RESULTS

    squeeze
    from bottom

  36. Uyghur said,

    March 23, 2007 at 9:10 am

    Hi Fausto,

    You’ve a great eye for seeing the real life of the locals(the Uyghurs). Your pictures and the video are the great examples of the Uyghur people in this”Modern” China. It is too sad that the Uyghurs are living in a very situation.

    I really appreciated you shooting the real life situation of the Uyghur people. Thank you. Any plans of playing the vidoes in a local media in the US?

    Thanks,

  37. Andy said,

    March 23, 2007 at 9:38 am

    Hello,

    PLEASE consider a torrent for us dialup users who can’t download such a large file all at once…

    Thanks,
    Andy

  38. LifeParticles » Blog Archive » Sorry no sea shanties said,

    March 23, 2007 at 11:52 am

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  39. Aliyah Banu said,

    March 23, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    love the music, keep it coming,

    ;- )

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  41. Chris said,

    March 23, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    Thank you for your efforts in making this compilation. An extraordinary patchwork of sounds and cultural motifs from around the world.

  42. jd said,

    April 7, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    Xinjiang restaurants seem to be all the rage here in Beijing these days, and many of them play similar music, sometimes with dancing. Thanks for putting this together – tons of great sounds.

    But as an over-organized person who likes to keep these things clean and give credit where it’s due, what are the names of the artists for tracks 1, 10 and 13? You didn’t tag the mp3 files.

    (Don’t know if you’ll be able to get to my blog – seems to be blocked to surfers in the PRC these days, unless you have ways of circumventing that.)

  43. Fausto said,

    April 13, 2007 at 11:36 am

    jd, thanks for the comment!
    agreed on giving credit, but as far as tracks 1,10 & 13 and artist tags…they came off of compilation discs that I found here where more often than not, you get a bunch of uncredited performers on every other track. the discs often come packaged under the more ‘marketable’ artist it seems….and no where on the disc itself can you find credit or reference aside from a title for some of the tracks. so apologies for that.

  44. jd said,

    April 14, 2007 at 6:44 am

    Fair enough on the tags – I know how it goes. I’ll just call them “Unknown Uyghur Artist”. I’ve been passing the files around at my office, and everyone seems to enjoy the tunes.

    I’m hoping sometime during my stint in China I’ll get a chance to visit the far west.

  45. ablat said,

    April 23, 2007 at 2:09 am

    thank for putting these beautiful musics on this

  46. mags said,

    April 23, 2007 at 2:34 am

    thank you so much for the music!
    yes i would definately like to hear more!
    about 2 years ago i bought a chinese vcd with Uighur dancing on and fell in love with the music and dance.
    i now teach a style of uighur dancing to my bellydance class. i really wish i could visit and buy the real deal and see the dancers in person.
    good luck and take care

  47. Some unknown Uyghur said,

    April 27, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    Thanks for the music. But I am unfortunetely uninterested in such kind of Uyghur music. I like Uyghur saz (instrumental music) played with such musical instruments as ravap, dutar or tambur. I would be thankful if you told me where on the internet could I download such music. Perhaps the reason I started liking such music is that about two month ago I began to play on tambur. It would be helpful for me to hear more of it. Thanks anyway. I liked the instrumental piece played on surney, uch pede on ravap, and of course the song played on dutar.

  48. Diego said,

    May 22, 2007 at 4:03 am

    please…post a whole shahrizoda cd… we love them. (we=lots of people)

  49. Jlo said,

    May 27, 2007 at 12:08 am

    Great cd
    I am listening to it for months.

    Is there coming a volume 2? I can’t wait

    Greetings
    JLO

  50. kekw said,

    June 8, 2007 at 4:00 am

    wow.

  51. Jonathan Stanley said,

    June 14, 2007 at 7:19 am

    Yes… where’s volume 2? :D Incidentally, the Shahrizoda is mislabelled, it is definitely not “Gozal Ertak” but rather “Guloyim (Atush)”. :)

  52. Katyana said,

    July 5, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    Hey Fausto, is it cool to promote this now? Here’s hoping we hear some semi-annual news from you on this blog! Cheers from one desert to another!

  53. BlammoGer said,

    July 6, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Every once in a while I stumble across something special (and free) in the web like this site.
    Thanks for the great compilation.
    Nice cover art too!!! I have to get one of those sunglases!
    Are you still in Urumqi? How about a new post?

    Greetings and Kudos,
    Patrick

  54. Alyssa said,

    July 20, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Hey Fausto,

    Just a quick note…. more soon…I miss you! Please send your address I want to send you something.
    xxox
    A.

  55. Shafkat said,

    September 10, 2007 at 10:30 am

    thanx….i am uyghur and i haven’t listen to the newer versions of Uyghur songs for last 5 years………..thanx for the collection and hope you visit back again….oh, i live in ameria by the way…

  56. Amina said,

    October 8, 2007 at 7:47 am

    Dear Fausto,
    I am Uyghur and I really appreciate the nice collection you put together–they are very Uyghur!!!

    I added a link to your site on my web page. http://wiu.edu/users/mua/

    Hope you don’t mind, let me know if you do.

    Also I want to take this chance to invite everybody here to go to my web page and enjoy the video pieces I gathered from Youtube.

  57. Alice said,

    November 17, 2007 at 1:43 am

    Hey! I’m British, living in Yunnan. I saw some Uyghur music on TV a while back and really loved it, and have been looking for more since, without much luck, then I came across your site right at the top of a google search I did. Thank you so much for uploading this!

  58. Alex said,

    November 27, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Hello Fausto

    Thank you very much for your CD, very nice emotions…
    By the way, could you help me finding out the titles, I’ve been searching since very longtime for, of the uyghurian songs Track 03 and Track 04 of my blog: http://www.myspace.com/sanizian

    Thanks a lot!
    You can download them if you’d like as well.

    Cheers,

    Alex

  59. Fausto said,

    November 28, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Hi there Alex
    in fact i know those two songs very well
    the artist is “Dilnaz “- a young Kazakhstan Uyghur singer.
    track 3 is called: Ten Seher
    track 4 is called: Zhan Ana

    hope that helps.

    believe it or not, my last landlady here in Urumqi is Dilnaz’s
    grandmother. I was at home playing Zhan Ana one day, unaware of the
    connection, when she walked in, asked me if i really likes the song
    and told me. Showed me some photos

    Anyway, glad you like the compilation.

  60. Alex said,

    November 29, 2007 at 12:24 am

    Thank you for your answer Fausto, if anyone who listened to this myspace could personally send me some tracks in the same style as the present songs (Dilnaz – Ten Seher & Zhan Ana) it would be very respectful :) So that the rest of France gets to know the jewels of uyghurian music. Thank you.

  61. ww said,

    December 8, 2007 at 12:26 am

    please…post a whole shahrizoda cd… we love them.
    电加热器

  62. Miguel said,

    December 20, 2007 at 12:27 am

    can we hope for Vol. 2 ?

    it´s almost a year since Vol. 1

    we are desperate to hear more ….

    por favor !!!

    Miguel

  63. The Conjecturer » It’s That Crazy Winter Mix said,

    December 21, 2007 at 12:29 am

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  64. Faizan said,

    January 1, 2008 at 12:29 am

    nice songs, but i love da songs of those three girls. dnt knw thr name. can anyone tell whr i can download thr songs. plz

  65. Stephen said,

    January 28, 2008 at 12:31 am

    Thanks so much for the music. I love world music, and it’s a great addition to my collection. It’s not often that you get good Uighur music in the west! I’m in agreement that you need to make a Volume 2 soon…

  66. who let the camels loose? » MFFTS has moved said,

    April 15, 2008 at 8:42 am

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  67. James said,

    July 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Loved it!! Can’t wait for the next volumes :)

  68. Jeff Daniels said,

    September 10, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    This music is great! I would love to use some of it for a documentary film I’m making about the Uyghurs. You can see a trailer for it on my website at http://www.croomp.com. Are these songs free for me to use? Is it possible for me to get uncompressed versions of the songs? Let me know if you need more information from me.

  69. e said,

    September 23, 2008 at 12:16 am

    congratulations! absolutely great compilation! obviously you discovered the saragossa sea of the turks, the türkiye of the heart!! thanks-a-million.

  70. William said,

    September 25, 2008 at 2:22 am

    Thank you for your time in creating this. I am enjoying it a lot and look forward to play for the people around me.

  71. dan said,

    September 27, 2008 at 1:25 am

    Hi Fausto,

    This compilation is great. thx !
    It reminds me a biz trip I did in 96 in Karamay ( west of Urumqi ).
    I had a little FM radio ( in fact 2 cheap chinese radios… you know when one breaks… use the other one)
    and I was listening a station, thinking… Man ! am I in china or turkey ?

    thx again.

    Dan from Luxemburg.

  72. bela said,

    September 29, 2008 at 4:59 am

    thanks!
    Great compilation

  73. Lahbah said,

    October 20, 2008 at 4:17 am

    Thank you so much!
    I was moved.

    From Japan

  74. Mary said,

    November 17, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Hi.

    I’m downloading your cd set right now. I’ll be burning it as soon as I figure out some new disk burning software as it appears China destroyed mine through massive incompatibility.

    I’m scheduled to present a paper entitled, A Home Away From the Village: An Ethnographic Study of the Cultural and Linguistic Results of the Muslim Uyghur Educational Exodus to Urumqi.

    The paper is about some University students I studied when I was teaching English in Urumqi in 2006.

    Would it be acceptable to use some of the music I am currently downloading as an example of contemporary Uyghur popular music in the presentation I will give to the American Anthropological Society.

    If you have any other advice to give me, that would be appreciated as well.

    Hox,

    Mary

  75. Jerantut Ferry said,

    March 4, 2009 at 1:23 am

    Hello. I’ve been tracking Shahrizoda for months and now I am hooked on to Central Asian music. The scenery in their videos is amazing. I would really like to visit Urumqi in the future. You got any more info on Shahrizoda?

  76. Jason Walker said,

    May 6, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Wow, thanks for this! I’ve had the hardest time finding Uyghur music for my fiancee and I. She’s going to be studying the Uyghur language and people soon, and can’t wait to visit Xinjiang again. This will help tide her over.

  77. anactoria said,

    March 11, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    Thank you so much for this. I came across an errant clip and instantly wanted more. ^_^

  78. guest said,

    August 7, 2010 at 9:33 am

    The song title no. 14 from shahrizoda is wrong. It’s not “Guzel Ertek” but “Guloyin”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RoRE21TnI4

    Gul Yaru band also has some nice songs. I hope you can include one of them in your second vol.

    Thanks.

  79. guest said,

    August 21, 2010 at 10:02 am

    A little correction of misspelling from my previous post. It is “Guloyim”, not “Guloyin”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuF-bwR-OEE

  80. realbridge said,

    March 18, 2011 at 11:27 am

    My goodness, what a gem! Thank you very very very much

  81. realbridge said,

    March 21, 2011 at 8:03 am

    I liked the music so much that I had to upload it to YouTube so others can find it. I hope you are okay with that! This is where the videos are: http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldMuzik2011

    THANKS!

  82. rudy said,

    April 2, 2011 at 10:06 am

    When the vol. 2 will come out?

  83. wwbread said,

    August 15, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    yakhshi.

  84. Musical side note | Along the way said,

    October 13, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    [...] http://compound-eye.org/rogc/xinjiang/xj-music-pro/comps/mffts-vol1/ [...]

  85. Ronald said,

    February 13, 2016 at 6:48 am

    Downloaded and about to spread the word about this great music.
    Thank you for sharing it with the world.

  86. Alvaro Callejas said,

    February 13, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Your effort is very much appreciated. Thanks! Greetings from La Paz, Bolivia.

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