Afghan Music: Dr. John Baily, Farid Zoland, Dr. Lloyd Miller

[parsuram1]

As in eastern classical music I could not find improvisations in Rubab.

[parsuram1]

very glad to see these music legends !! - parsuparsu@hotmial.com

[atusatusa]

My aunt playing tambourine on the right in the beginning. I love this clip! Beautiful and inspiring

[sirsalamander]

As I prepare for my journey to Tehran to study the art of Tar building, I look to these scholars, old and new, for inspiration and support.

[sirsalamander]

Dr. Lloyd Miller's work in Iran through an Iranian broadcast network pre-revolution are some of the most well documented works on a Western scholar pursuing Iranian music. Dr. Miller released an album with the Heliocentrics last year that was superb, so please check it out. For contemporary readings on musical perceptions and identity in post revolution Iran, please read works by Youssefzadeh, Movahed, and Navid Fozi.

[sirsalamander]

Besear Tashakur beraya een film hastam. Dr. Lloyd Miller has been an inspiration to myself as well an other ethnomusicologists whose focus is in the Middle East.  As I have studied the music of the Middle East, primarily Iran, Dr. Miller, John Bailey, and his wife Veronica Doubleday have been of great inspiration. Doubleday, particularly had an affinity for giving a voice to the social perceptions surrounding the female role in music of the Middle East.

[omarherat]

Wow I love this especially the dilruba

[KAMONKESH]

BAH BAH KHEYLI GHASHANG VA ZIBAST.

[HoboSex]

This is some of the best music I have ever heard! I am deeply inspired by these songs and artists!

[worldartsdocmiller]

Read about the unbelievable adventures of Dr. Lloyd Miller traveling and performing through the Middle East and beyond by going to the jazzscope website and clicking on Sufi, Saint & Swinger.

[axxzz123]

lots of respect for mr zoland...iran loves you.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Hi, The playing is interpretation of with some improvisation on known themes, some classicall some folk. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[groovebassist]

Is the playing dealing with a composition or improvisation?

[worldartsdocmiller]

Farid is the nice looking Afghan playing tabla, Dr. Lloyd Miller

[nwakili100]

Nice music & all instrumental. It looks so classically old and great. It must have been compiled by Dr's Baily & Miller in early '70's or late '60's. I love it!!

[humayoonp]

wow this is beautiful...i wish i was around in those years to learn from the best. i would love to do gigs like this..i am working very hard on my vocals at this time..

[4fatima]

i really love ti listen to it and i fell that we had great and so talented people and make me proud of them. thank you for sharing them <3

[worldartsdocmiller]

Salam. Dr. John Baily is an ethnomusicologist from UK, I am Dr. Lloyd Miller, an ethnomusicologist originally from California, Farid Zoland was a tabla player in Kabol living in Tehran when this recording was made and the young ladies were music students in Tehran that we taught Afghan tunes from Herat and other regions of Afghanistan. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[wahidmax]

any body know where thay kom fro

[qari0aryana]

tahnx a lot ,,,,,,,very nice

[jawedfuladi]

Real Hazaragi music

[worldartsdocmiller]

Salam, tashakor magur nei sa'ib, i ba Erat kul waqt ba chaikhana mevawakhtand, namash Ozbaki bud wa az shonal ast. This tune was always played in Herat in the teahouses in the 1970s and the tune is called Ozbaki since it was dsefinitely Afghan from the north of Afghanistan NOT Hazarajot and definitely not Mongol. You need to study ethnomusicologoy like Dr. Baily and I did all our lives to know the exact facts. Tashakor, Dr. Lloyd Miller

[LiwanayTribe]

that aint afghan thats turkic mongolian music alsol knwon as hazaara qataghani

[haveajerk]

Awesome, specially the third one.

[Malangsufi]

Music becomes great when the instrument and the musican becomes one, when the melody is the speaking the voice of heart, when the audience do not feel as an audience, but feel as part of the act. When we loss our self in the music and nowhere to be found, and only realized ourseleves when the music is stoped. This is what I got from this video. Thank you for such an experience.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Dear coleague,

Thanks for your remarks. Dr. Baily is really great and we had some wonderful performances together both in Iran and in Salt Lake.

Dr. Lloyd Miller

[mavciefendi]

i have met with John Baily, in a conference in istanbul. i am also a Ph.D student in ethnomusicology, i was citing one of his articles about the dutar, and just decided to search his vidoes.. and here i am... i am shocked, this video is so cool:)

[worldartsdocmiller]

Wa wa, bare kharaje khub dari yad dari. For foreigner like myself you know Dari well. Yes that is John Baily or Jani Khan as I dubbed him. The tabla guy Farid Zoland was a famous, unfortunately, pop musician and his father was a popular singer. The Iranian girls were some of the best at Terhan University at that time except for one who was just a good friend I taught to play a couple of instruments. Have you checked our other sites: doctorlloydmiller ; lloyddocmiller & easternartskstjohn ? LM

[worldartsdocmiller]

Robabnawaz-a aziz, tashakkur bareya gap-a mehrabanaton. Bikhi sahist saib, musiqi-ya sahi bsyar kam shuda. You are so right, real traditional music with old authentic instruments is almost gone from the world. I don't even use harmonium because it was a western innovation. But keyboard is the curse of Satan that should be banned in ethnic music. I use a keyboard for jazz only when a piano istn't there but no phoneyelectronics, just the piano sound. It has no place at all in Afghan music.L Miller

[robabnawaz]

Tashakkor baraye jawâb-e shomâ, lekin afghan nestam, man almânam, kami dâri gap mezanam.

I share your oppinion. The harmonium has realy destroyed the afghan sound system with its original quarter notes and led to the replacement of beautifull instruments like sarinda and delrubâ. I also read your great book about afghan music.hope therell be more on youtube from concerts you gave on Iran TV in the seventies. Is it the young Dr. John Baily playing dutar? Pleae go on this way.

[robabnawaz]

It's so wonderfull, a seldom opportunity to listen to real afghan music without keyboards

- Robabnawaz -

[baficchio]

Very nice , are you a etnomusicologist? you know more musical culture of this region..

[worldartsdocmiller]

Greetings. Yes I am an ethnomusicologist with a book on Iranian music published by Curzon Press in London titled Music and Song in Persia. Dr. Baily and I enjoy perfoming like this video from the 1970s; but we also teach at the university level and write books and papers. There is so much to learn and so little time even 100 years is too little to learn just a little about Eastern musical cultures. Dr. LLoyd Miller

[Beat0Maker]

i want also learn to play rabab and tambur but i'm now in europe studying aircraft engineering.