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time to dance

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:24 +0000

Title: time to dance
Location: irvine
Date: 2010-03-10

Ghazals Afghans Album

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:59:10 +0000

The legendary queen of ornamentation displays a rainbow of the most refined tone colours to express feelings of love. After the album “Radio Kaboul”, a homage to the disappeared or exiled compositors and musicians of the radio of Afghanistan, Mahwash declines today the refined and complex forms of the feeling of love through the “ghazal”, privileged poetic frame of the human or devotional love. Infinite arabesques of sense, metaphors, oscillations from oriental modes to Indian ragas, permanent sliding from the profane to the sacred… “It’s the game around the ambiguity of this love what distinguishes the great musicians. Their role is to make people hear the hidden sense of the verses” said Ustad Mahwash. Characteristic of the Muslim presence in South Asia and sound personification of the ambiguity, the ghazal is the place of the indirect discourse and of the collective imaginary of the Indo-Muslim society, to which Afghanistan is connected. Mahwash is a legend in Afghanistan. She receives there the title of Ustad (master) in 1977. She leaves her country and goes to California, after the tragic events we all know. In the United States or in Europe, an enthusiastic public appreciates her voice with a slightly husky timber, but she refuses to return to Afghanistan to sing as long as the situation of women keeps them away from the musical world. An exceptional woman, she explains in the interview with Martina Catella the singularity of her situation: “In Afghanistan, we had many artists who sang mostly to divert. From the beginning, I decided to sing music that evokes noble feelings. Even in those days no woman frequented Kharabat, the musicians’ quarter. Women didn’t work. Society didn’t permit that. Thus, going to Kharabat or singing on the radio…you can imagine ! Their families forbade them to do that… I took that risk. I went to Kharabat with my husband to learn the rules of music. I am the first woman that followed this path. I learned the true Afghan music and the musical theory in a professional manner. Kharabat is our faculty of music. It is there where this art is transmitted in a professional manner from generation to generation…”

Written by: Martina Catella

Recent News

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:28:16 +0000

Ustad Mahwash will be filming her hit song titled “Mastam Kharabam” in the month of February 2010. Mastam Kharabam is a short version of the poem written by the globally known Jalal ad-din Muhammad Balkhi. The music video will be shot on the Red camera. The story to the music video takes place in Afghanistan and will consist of a cast of over 50 people. The bizarre and unique thing about this video and Ustad Mahwash is that she has given a group of students the opportunity to film this video in order to encourage them in their studies and education.

The group of students, Mostafa, Ekta, Ramzia and Razia Noorzay have reported they will be putting in absolutely every effort in this video to make it as presentable, professional and top notch as possible. They assure it will be different than various other music videos out there. The producer reports, “I am still in shock we have been given this enormous advantage and opportunity.” The writer reports, “I am still very nervous but am highly confident this one in a lifetime chance working with the highly respectable Ustad Mahwash is going to be priceless and definitely going to make it big. I am a HUGE fan and feel honored.”

These students are highly energetic and extremely passionate about this project as is the Artist herself. The video will be airing on all the International-Afghan channels such as: Noor TV, Ariana Afghanistan, Payam-e-Afghan, etc.

The song is featured from the album titled, “Radio Kabul.” You can purchase this CD from this website link. We look forward to the completion of the video before summer of 2010.

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admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:15:09 +0000

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