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Dear Tor

No exciting intrigue, I fear:

I am English/American but have always enjoyed good music from all over the world - with a particular interest in music from Latin America.

A year or so ago I had been listening to some Pakistani music and an acquaintance suggested that I explore some music from Afghanistan, especially from the 1970s, e.g Ustad Mahwash and Ahmad Zahir.

I listened to a few songs and I liked what I heard.

Some time later I happened to mention this to an Afghan woman who works in my office.

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She was surprised that I was listening to such artists, and started lending me her old cassettes of performances by Ahmad Zahir (some recorded at private parties in the 1970s) and various other artists. She is passionate about this period of Afghan music, as it was the music of her childhood, and she tells me that it represents the Afghanistan of a different age - an age when there was great hope in society.

I am now a big fan Ahmad Z