SAFAR 2016 - hundred years old recording returns to Afghanistan from now pashto Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 22 sec
✓ Published: 02-Jul-2016

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On May 25 1916, a young man named Abdul Kadir Khan sang in his mother tongue Pashto into a gramophone, more than 6000 Kilometers away from his home.nHis song was recorded during World War I in Germany, in the so called „Halfmoon Camp“ south of Berlin, where soldiers from the farthest regions of the British Empire were captured as prisoners of war.nAbdul Kadir was one of them. Now, 100 years later, his recording ist being brought back to its origins in Afghanistan.nMusicians at the Afghanista