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[Farhad Darya]
By Farida Anwari from Radio Naqsh-ha-e-Jaaweedaan
Translated from Dari By Wahid Momand
January - March 1998
Lemar-Aftaab
Fareda Anwari: How did you start your music career?
Farhad Darya: I started my music career with classical style, with
likes of Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang, but it didn't fare well amongst the
listeners of that era, so I stopped the classical and ghazal period of my
career and followed up on Mahali (folk) music.
Fareda Anwari: When did the musical group
Grouw-e-Baaraan came about, how was it put
together and in your opinion was it successful?
Farhad Darya: Since Mahali music was untouched and pure and
in essence was the sole reason I established Grouw-e-Baaraan, and the scent of
a new generation of folk music had aroused from it. Mahali music prior to
this era of my exploration of music, was a distant music style and with the help
of Grouw-e-Baaraan brought Mahali (folk) music closer,
very close.
Fareda Anwari: Which song was the breakthrough song that has
established you in scene of Mahali music in Radio Afghanistan?
Farhad Darya: Nazoko e man, Naaz kamtar kon, hosn
e tu nameemaanad which is a very ancient Afghan folk song, but with
a new modern style which I composed it into a classical mode and
presented it as a classical song. The music of the Eastern Afghanistan
which if you pay attention it always starts with the phrase
"ya qurbaan"; I recorded Nazoko-e-man to the
taal (beat) of tapeya which ended up to be a
twenty-five minute song.
Fareda Anwari: Classical music in Afghanistan has been in center
stage for generations and every newcomer brought something new to the
classical music style. What was your gift to Afghan classical music?
Farhad Darya: My gift if you should call it that, was the addition of
Dari lyrics, by that I mean the do baytee or chahar baytee
which I obtained from the Mahali stage of my career.
Also Pashtoo and other languages were added by me.
Fareda Anwari: I have heard your previous album entitled Baygom Jaan,
to me this sounded a little strange it was something new, I only heard the
voice of nature previously in the Ahmad Zahir song Akher-ay-daryaa where he
uses the soundtrack of a river. What did you try to accomplish here?
Farhad Darya: I wanted to capture the sounds of nature, sounds of
deserts, sounds of mountains and maybe sounds of trees and grass with the
sounds of musical instruments.
Farhad Darya's song
Shaakh-e-nabaat  from his 1996 album Afghanistan.
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