Abida Parveen, vocals ; Rajap Ali, harmonium ; Sadiq Ali, tabla ; Munawar Hussain, dholak
Sung in Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki and Old Hindustani.
Biographical and descriptive notes by Pierre Bois in French and English with translations of songs ([14] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Includes sampler CD: Extraits des CD de la collection INEDIT = Highlights of INEDIT CD series: vol. 2 (1992-1995), Une fenetre sur le monde = a window on the world. Paris : Maison des Cultures du Monde, p1995.
Recorded live in concert at the Salle Patino, Geneva, May 10, 1994.
Disc 1. Qal tarana / Amir Khusraw (14:13) -- Kafi / Bulleh Shah (8:57) -- Ghazal / Hakim Nasser (10:51) -- Kafi / Ghulam Farid (9:09) -- Ghazal / Bedam Shah (5:25) -- Kafi / Bulleh Shah (11:58) -- Ghazal / Amir Khusraw (13:10)
Disc 2. Chants des femmes turkmènes = Turkmen women voices -- Sakina Ismailova, Anthologie du mugam d'azerbaidjan = Anthology of Azerbaijanese mugam -- Chants cosaques = Cossack songs -- Lettonie = Latvia -- Albanie, polyphonies Lab = Albania, Lab polyphonies -- Voix de pays baltes = Baltic voices -- Calabre, musiques de fetes = Calabrian festivals music [sic] -- Chants judéo-espagnoles de la Méditerranée orientale = Judeo-Spanish songs from the eastern Mediterranean -- Lotfi Bouchnak : Malouf tunisien = Tunisian malouf -- Tunisie, anthologie du malouf = Tunisa, anthology of maluf : Nuba al-Sika -- maroc, anthologie des Rwayes : chants et musiques berbères de la vallée du Sous = Morocco, anthology of the Rwayes : Berber songs and music from the Sous valley -- Comores, musiques de l'ile de Anjouan = Comoros Islands, music from Anjouan -- Irak, anthologie du maqam = Iraq, anthology of maqam : Omar Yusuf -- Abida Parveen, chants soufis du Pakistan = Soufi songs from Pakistan -- Cambodge, musiques du ballet royal = Cambodia, music of the royal ballet -- Sumatra, musiques Batak = Batak music -- Java, Tembang Sunda -- Le pavillion aux pivoines, opéra classique chinois kunqu = The peony pavillion, Chinese classical opera kunqu