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Below The Radar 42

Track 15

Ustad Noor Bakhsh. Photo: Hira Abro

"Des"

Previously unreleased

Ustad Noor Bakhsh is a Benju player from the Makran Coast of Balochistan. His debut album is named Jingul, after a bird that often frequents Bakhsh's house, and whose songs inspired the last track on this release. The album was recorded live on location, over a memorable sunset on the Shadi Kaur creek, close to Bakhsh's village, near Pasni, Balochistan.

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