Street address: Gozargah, District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan
Mailing address: Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), P O Box 5805, Central Post Office, Kabul, Afghanistan
Website: http://www.akdn.org/aktc
Proprietor: Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), Afghanistan
Contact: Mirwaiss Sidiqi Programme Co-ordinator
Telephone: 93 (0) 700 281308, 93 (0) 799 888086
The Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia (AKMICA) was created by His Highness the Aga Khan in 2000 to support the efforts of Central Asian musicians and communities to sustain, further develop and transmit musical traditions that are a vital part of their cultural heritage.
Among the traditional arts of Central Asia, music occupies a unique place, for it has been at once a means of expressing social identity, preserving spiritual practices and beliefs, cultivating the performance of poetry and transmitting history, philosophy and ethics.
Read more at Afghanistan Cultural Profiles Net
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Guldasta-e-Kharabat
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دخرابات گلدسته
گلدسته خرابات
Street address: Gozargah, District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan
Mailing address: Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), P O Box 5805, Central Post Office, Kabul, Afghanistan
Website: http://www.akdn.org/aktc
Proprietor: Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI), Afghanistan
Contact: Mirwaiss Sidiqi Programme Co-ordinator
Telephone: 93 (0) 700 281308, 93 (0) 799 888086
The group Guldasta-e-Kharabat was created in 2006 and includes master musicians (ustaads) who teach at the Kabul music school of the Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI), Afghanistan.
The group comprises:
Ustaad Ghullam Hussain (rubab)
Ustaad Amiruddin (dilruba)
Ustaad Haji Qader (sarenda)
Lale Mohammad (tambour)
Mohammad Sahrif (dhol)
Faqir Hassan (tabla)
Adel Shah (zerbaghali)
Abdul Latif (tula)
Juma Kahn (ghichak)
Khalil Amiri (vocalist)
The ensemble performs folk, traditional and classical Afghan music.
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