Global Village on PBS 106.7 FM, Melbourne, Australia

6 April 2025

Playlist #1732 for Global Village (PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia) for Sunday April 6, 2025. Today we head to Central Asia - in the second hour. Matt, a Global Village and PBS Friend for Life, is aiming to travel there soon, and asked for some suggestions garnered from our brief visit to Uzbekistan in 2010. Here is some music from the 'stans. Roger Holdsworth presenting.

(A): Australian artists - all or partly.


ARTIST | Track | ALBUM | (Label, Details)

ABLAYE CISSOKO & CYRILLE BROTTO | Meuno Ma Terée | DJIYO/WATER | (Ma Case, 2025)
[ www.ablaye-cissoko.com ; https://ablayecissoko.bandcamp.com/album/instant ; https://ma-case.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/macaseprod/ ]
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NGULMIYA with PAU FIGUERES | Wuju (Catalunya Version) | CATALUNYA | (Bapa Gajah, forthcoming 2025)
[ https://www.facebook.com/ngulmiya/ ; https://ngulmiya.bandcamp.com/ ]

CHRISTINE ANU | Laga Saibai | WAKU-MINARAL A MINALAY | (ABC Music, 2024) (A)
[ https://www.christineanu.com/ ; https://www.abc.net.au/abcmusic/christine-anu-waku/103877844 ; https://www.facebook.com/OfficialChristineAnu ]
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GUSTO GUSTO | Sunday Scaries | SUNDAY SCARIES - SINGLE | (self, 2025) (A)
[ https://www.facebook.com/gustogustomusic ; https://www.gustogustomusic.com/ ]

PAL MAR | Como Nuestro Amor/Like Our Love | COMO NUESTRO AMOR - SINGLE | (self, 2025) (A)
[ https://www.facebook.com/palmarmusic/ ; https://www.palmarmusic.com/ ]

WILL POUND & JENN BUTTERWORTH | Better Things | VOLUME 1 | (self, 2023)
[ https://willpound.com/projects/will-pound-jenn-butterworth/ ]
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LUNAU & SUND | Jorden drejer/ The earth is turning | VA: SCANDINAVIA | (Putumayo, 2025)
[originally from KUN I DET BLÅ/ ONLY IN THE BLUE (The Farm, 2024)]
[ https://www.lunau-sund.dk/ ; https://www.facebook.com/LunauSund/ ; https://www.putumayo.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/Putumayo/ ]

ÁŠŠU | Uvdel Ovllá Jovnna Ursula - Ursula's Joik | LUOHTENIEGUT/ TRUSTED | (Nordic Notes / CPL-Musicgroup, 2025)
[ https://www.facebook.com/NordicNotesMusic ; https://nordic-notes.de/ ; https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063654813091 ; https://nordic-notes.de/en/artists/assu/ ]

UUSIKUU/NEW MOON | Mata Hari's Eyes | PIKNIK | (Nordic Notes / CPL-Musicgroup, 2025)
[ https://www.uusikuu.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/UUSIKUU ; https://www.facebook.com/NordicNotesMusic/ ; https://nordic-notes.de/ ]

ANNE-MARI KIVIMÄKI | Halo | KOTIIN/HOMEWARD | (Rockadillo Records, 2025)
[ https://www.annemarikivimaki.fi/en/ ; https://www.facebook.com/kivimakiannemari/ ; http://www.rockadillo.fi/ ]
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ROSARIO DE MARCO | Skinny hand | DREAM ON | (self, 2023) (A)
[ http://rosariodemarco.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/Tinheartorchestra/]
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LEMKO BLUEGRASS BAND | Sim Sumnykh Dniv/Seven Sad Days | SCHIFFSKARTE | (self, 2025)
[ https://www.facebook.com/LemkoBrothers/ ; https://www.reverbnation.com/LemkoBluegrass ]

AMAL MURKUS/ أمل مرقس | La Ahada Yalam/ لا أحدا يعلم /No One Knows | AMAL | (self & Nizar Zreik/EMI Hemisphere 7243 4 96134 2 3, 1998-2000)
[ https://www.amalmurkus.org/about ; https://www.facebook.com/AmalMurkus ]
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NATIONAL ENSEMBLE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ORCHESTRA | Zhez-Kiik/ Live-Keeping | VA: THE ROUGH GUIDE TO THE MUSIC OF CENTRAL ASIA | (World Music Network RGNET 1129 CD, 2005)
[ https://worldmusic.net/ ; https://www.facebook.com/WorldMusicNetwork ]

AGA KHAN MASTER MUSICIANS | Tashkent | NOWRUZ | (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2023)
[ https://folkways.si.edu/ ; https://agakhanmastermusicians.bandcamp.com/album/nowruz ; https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-agencies/aga-khan-trust-culture/performance/master-musicians-aga-khan-music-initiave-gulbenkian-symphony-orchestra ]

FARZIN (HABIB & FIRUZ HAKIMOV) | Yod Kardam | VA: THE ROUGH GUIDE TO THE MUSIC OF CENTRAL ASIA | (World Music network RGNET 1129 CD, 2005)
[ https://worldmusic.net/ ; https://www.facebook.com/WorldMusicNetwork ]
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YULDUZ USMONOVA | Yana Bahor/ Again Spring | KERAK BO'LSA JONIM FIDO/ IF NECESSARY, MY LIFE WILL | (Norvana/PanTerra MultiMedia, 2009)
[ https://yulduz.uz/ ; https://www.facebook.com/yulduzusmonovamusic ]

SEVARA NAZARKHAN | Yor-Yor/Song To The Bride | YOL BOLSIN/ LET'S GO | (Real World Records, 2003-2012)
[ https://realworldrecords.com/artists/sevara-nazarkhan/ ; https://www.facebook.com/realworldrecords/ ; https://sevaramusic.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/sevaramusic ]

DILBAR BEKTURDIEVA | Birallaim/ I am alone | MUSIC OF CENTRAL ASIA VOL. 7: IN THE SHRINE OF THE HEART: POPULAR CLASSICS FROM BUKHARA AND BEYOND | (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40526, 2010)
[ https://folkways.si.edu/ ; http://www.uzbekjourneys.com/2011/07/uzbek-divas-capturing-poetic-traditions.html ]
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MATLUBEH DADABAYEVA | Yar Yar | YAR KELOUR | (Iris Musique 3001 825, 2000)
[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105463806 ; https://www.ressources-mcm.com/s/Ibn_Battuta/item/3015 ]

DAVLAT NAZAR | Ali Sheri Khudo | VA: LOST IN TAJIKISTAN | (Riverboat Records TUGCD1138, 2023)
[ www.worldmusic.net ; https://worldmusic.net/products/lost-in-tajikistan ]
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MEERIM | Marsh Botoy (March Botoy) | VA: SHÜÜDÜNGÜT'S ROAD: MUSIC OF THE KYRGYZ PEOPLE OF CENTRAL ASIA | (Frequency Glide Enterprises FGE 0005 2, 2001)
[ https://www.kyrgyzmusic.com/kyrgyz_recordings.html ]

BAKTYBEK SHATENOV & BERMET OROZBEKOVA | Kyz Kyal/The Manners of Girls (excerpt) | VA: SHÜÜDÜNGÜT'S ROAD: MUSIC OF THE KYRGYZ PEOPLE OF CENTRAL ASIA | (Frequency Glide Enterprises FGE 0005 2, 2001)
[ https://www.kyrgyzmusic.com/kyrgyz_recordings.html ; https://kyrgyzmusic.com/kyrgyzVocalMusic.html ]

SALAMAT SADIKOVA | Gulgun jash/Happy Youth | THE VOICE OF KYRGYZSTAN | (Frequency Glide Enterprises FGE 0004 2, 2001)
[ https://www.qobuz.com/au-en/album/the-voice-of-kyrgyzstan-salamat-sadikova/zcmc6mdhncdka ; https://www.kyrgyzmusic.com/kyrgyz_recordings.html ; https://centralasien.org/en/40-women-of-kyrgyzstan-portraits/salamat-sadikova/ ]
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KHURMO SHIRINOVA | Paidot Kardam/Found a Sweetheart | VA: SYNTHESIZING THE SILK ROADS: UZBEK DISCO, TAJIK FOLKTRONICA, UYGHUR ROCK & CRIMEAN TATAR JAZZ FROM 1980S SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA | (Ostinato Records, 2024)
[ https://www.ostinatorecords.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/OstinatoRecords/ ; https://hyphenonline.com/2024/09/17/synthesising-the-silk-roads-compilation-album-review/ ]

MINARETS OF NESSEF | Instrumental (excerpt) | VA: SYNTHESIZING THE SILK ROADS: UZBEK DISCO, TAJIK FOLKTRONICA, UYGHUR ROCK & CRIMEAN TATAR JAZZ FROM 1980S SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA | (Ostinato Records, 2024)
[ https://www.ostinatorecords.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/OstinatoRecords/ ; https://hyphenonline.com/2024/09/17/synthesising-the-silk-roads-compilation-album-review/ ]
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SHERRY PENG & ZAYNE GUO (SINOBEATS) | 大漠行 Walking on the Desert (excerpt) - 古筝 Guzheng & 非洲鼓 Bongo Drum | ILLUMINATING HARMONY | (self, nd) (A)
[ https://www.sinobeats.com.au/ ]









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