Various Artists - Folk Music of China 18 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

China's rich and diverse musical heritage has been recorded and documented in a stunning, original collection. With twenty albums in the pipeline, this is a highly specialized series with the appeal of perhaps being the closest thing to the 'complete works' of traditional Chinese music. Each album features a different region of the vast territory; an historical snapshot of China's heritage. Due to the cultural privacy China mandates, these are in fact rare, musical gems. Folk songs from the Uyghur peoples of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This album features six folk songs from the Yili region in northern Xinjiang, five folk songs from Kashgar and Artux in southern Xinjiang and two excerpts from the Uyghur Twelve Muqam. All are played on traditional instruments such as rewap, dap, tembor and dotar. This is volume eighteen of a twenty album series, exploring China's rich and diverse musical heritage. Album Tracks 1. Black Eyes [Yili Region] 2. Song of the Coachman [Yili Region] 3. White Fish [Yili Region] 4. My Fair Lady [Yili Region] 5. White Steed [Yili Region] 6. My Sparrow Hawk [Yili Region] 7. My Charming Lover [Kashgar Region] 8. Mountains at the Yingjisha County [Kashgar Region] 9. Pomegranates of Kashgar [Kashgar Region] 10. My Lover [Kashgar Region] 11. Folk Song of Artux [Artux Region] 12. Pänjigah Muqam 13. Özhal Muqam [Excerpt]