I decided to start my journey into world folk music by simply opening a list of the countries of the world and going through them alphabetically. The first country on the list is Afghanistan...
Searching through YouTube for examples I've found that Afghanistan has an amazingly rich musical heritage and thankfully, now that the Taliban have been thrown out of power this rich heritage is making a flourishing return...
As with most other traditional songs in other cultures, the primary function of a song like the one above is to tell a story and though we cannot understand the words the emotion clearly comes through. Here is another one...
I could just close my eyes and listen to this stuff all day...
If you want to read more about the traditional music of Afghanistan check out this article on Wikipedia...
Next stop... Albania
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