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Jingul

by Ustad Noor Bakhsh

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    Here's what the critics have said about this beautiful and important album:

    "Jingul was recorded live at sunset, and the poignant melancholy of dusk permeates the music...It’s the kind of music that leaves you grasping for the spiritual and indefinable, that burrows into your soul and glows there"
    Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork

    "Inspired by birdsong and playing the obscure zither-like benju, the 78-year-old is enjoying a surge in global popularity"
    Sadiya Ansari, The Guardian

    "Like many master musicians, Bakhsh appears completely at ease with the benju, the technical flourishes and melodies flowing out of him in an endless stream of sound. Through repetition and speed his performances can lean towards the ecstasy of Sufism and qawwali."
    Chris Menist, Songlines

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Kalam Lolo 05:06
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Bundar Nari 03:11
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Maanj 03:56
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Jingul 03:48

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This is the debut solo release of Benju maestro, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, from the Makran Coast of Balochistan.

The album is named 'Jingul', after a bird that often frequents Noor's house, and whose songs inspired the last track on this release — an original by Noor.

The album was recorded live on location, over a memorable sunset on the Shadi Kaur creek, close to Noor's village, near Pasni, Balochistan.

Noor plays an Electric Benju, amplified using an old pick up and Phillips amp that he found in a market in Karachi three decades ago. The Benju, is said to have once been a Japanese children's toy called the Taishōgoto. At some point in the 20th century, it was modified and naturalised by Baloch musicians who made it in to a refined folk instrument for themselves.

Balochistan straddles the space between modern day Pakistan and Iran but its music, particularly that of Makran, evokes the well documented migrations and seafaring; historical intimacies with Africa, Persia, and Arabia, via the greater Indian Ocean world.

It is this world that Noor's music wanders through.

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released September 2, 2022

Electric Benju - Ustad Noor Bakhsh
Damboora - Jamadar Gohram
Damboora - Doshambay

Recording and Production: Daniyal Ahmed
Assistant Producer: Shahid Khan

Mix and Master: Nizar Lalani
Assistant Sound Engineer: Muneer Khan

Cover Design: Abeera Kamran

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