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Naujawanan Baidar - Volume 2 (2019) [Hi-Res]

Naujawanan Baidar - Volume 2 (2019) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Naujawanan Baidar

Radio Khiyaban is happy to bring you the promised second volume of cassette four-track recordings by Afghan-American folk-noise outfit Naujawanan Baidar! Like on the band's first tape, Volume II mines the treasure trove of 1960s-1980s cassette music from founder N.R. Safi's paternal homeland of Afghanistan, warping both traditional and popular forms into a tangled mass of tape-saturated noise inspired by the very medium that once carried them. Although the end results may sound far removed from the original artists that helped inspired them (legendary performers like Ahmad Zahir, Beltoon and Hamidullah, or Salma Jahani) there is something to be said for this "new" or "imagined" form of contemporary Afghan experimental music. Naujawanan Baidar both reaffirms its ties to a relatively hidden (to outside eyes at least) cultural history while at the same time pushing outwards into new and unexplored territories.

Naujawanan Baidar, Vol. 2 is released on Radio Khiyaban as a limited run of 100 professionally-dubbed Ferromaster C456 cassettes. Like with the first volume, the packaging and artwork is a direct homage to 1970s Afghan tape design.

Now that these two collections of inaugural home-recordings have been released into the wild we can look forward to Naujawanan Baidar's first proper studio album (arrival expected in the Summer of 2020) along with a handful of other assorted/related projects including a 7" EP and a series of live performances around the Netherlands.

Tracklist:
01. Naujawanan Baidar - Peshak-e Siyah (4:02)
02. Naujawanan Baidar - Radio Interference (0:34)
03. Naujawanan Baidar - Zanjeer (3:02)
04. Naujawanan Baidar - Symmetry of Knives (7:28)
05. Naujawanan Baidar - Shakl-e Barqi/Aftab Zadagi (Slight Return) (3:45)
06. Naujawanan Baidar - Nagin Saaz (3:13)
07. Naujawanan Baidar - Panj Ruz Pesh (8:10)



Naujawanan Baidar - Volume 2 (2019) [Hi-Res]


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