Garden of Flowers, by Amir Hayat

Garden of Flowers

by Amir Hayat

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High bias professioanlyl dubbed tape limited to 100 copies. This is a co-release with the Moldovan label 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗸𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀: antonovkarecords.bandcamp.com.

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	1.	Asquiring Chamun 05:21
	2.	Rahmat Bilah Taleem 06:31
	3.	Une Chaghamin Uyam 03:42
	4.	Shereen Zaban 02:44
	5.	Hamesh Je Une Shule Ghalees Ba 05:40
	6.	Bai Hasegawa Hameesha Zinda 04:35
	7.	Me Khaner Zucha Dayal Jaba 04:38
	8.	Chup Ne Chup Ne Thap Ke Saw Omuz Guwas Jar Yad Bila 05:23

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The Burusho are a mountain people of northern Pakistan, with a population numbering about 100,000 in total. Burushaski, their language, is not related to any other language in the world. However, it has been in constant contact with neighboring languages and has borrowings — primarily from Farsi, Urdu and English. The influence of Farsi is especially strong in local poetry.

Amir Khayat is a teacher at an Ismaili school in Karimabad, historically known as Baltit, the capital of the Hunza region. Ismailism is a branch of Shia Islam to which the majority of the Burusho belong. Amir writes poetry and songs in Burushaski in the traditional style, and performs them to the accompaniment of the rubab (an instrument common to both Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan). According to him, the Persian language is especially noticeable on track eight. Meanwhile, "Bai Hasegawa Hameesha Zinda" is in three languages at once - Burushaski, English, and Japanese. This song is dedicated to the Japanese mountain climber Tsuneo Hasegawa, who perished in these mountains during ascending in 1991. He was a great friend of the Burusho and had even built a school here.

Radio Khiyaban is happy to present this limited cassette pressing of this album originally released on the wonderful Moldovan label Antonovka Records. Be sure to head over to their own Bandcamp page for an incredible wealth of additional recordings from Pakistan, Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and beyond: antonovkarecords.bandcamp.com/music

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released August 5, 2023

Amir Hayatl vocals and rubab
Recorded at Amir's home in Karimabad on December 8, 2018
Release notes by Anton Apostol
Originally released digitally in 2022 by Antonovka Records

Thanks to Amir, Safdar Karim, Inna Mamchenko

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