Music On The Desert Road
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"Music On The Desert Road: a sound travelogue" (Angel Records, Ang 35515, 1956), by "ethnomusicologist" Deben Bhattacharya. Contains selected pieces from a collection of over forty hours of recording made during an overland journey to India. Contains folk music of Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, performed by native musicians and recorded 1955-56.
"For years I had something called 'Music On The Desert Road', which was an album with all kinds of different ethnic music from the Middle East. I used to listen to that all the time." - FZ in "Unholy Mother", an interview with Guitarist magazine (June 1993).
