Music and Dance in the Pamir Mountains

For more information on The Badakhshan Ensemble and to purchase “Music of Central Asia vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance from the Pamir Mountains“, please visit... The Badakhshan Ensemble takes its name from the mountainous region — poetically known in Persian as Bam-i Dunya, the “Roof of theWorld“ — that comprises the sparsely populated eastern half of Tajikistan and northeast Afghanistan. There, nestled in a series of riverine valley