Thursday, March 15, 2007

Download Mesopotamian Music

http://www.lightbridgemusic.com/mohdl.htm

Go to the above link to download Mesopotamian music. Starburst is the only full-length clip, it is very good.

http://www.geocities.com/kurdishmusic100/

The above link has 100 hours of Kurdish music. Quite an undertaking. This amalgam of peoples and tribes continued to be known under one name by lowlanders of Mesopotamia . One of the first mentions in historical records, appears in cuneiform writings from the Sumerians dated around 3000 BCE, who referred to the "land of the Karda" in Taurus-Zagros mountains of the northern and northeastern parts of Mesopotamia, The area was referred to as the land of the "Karda" or "Qarduchi" and the land of the "Guti" or "Gutium". These are described as being the same people only differing in tribal name. The Babylonians called these people "Gardu" and "Qarda". In neighbouring area of Assyria, they were "Qurti" or "Guti". When the Greeks entered the territory, they referred to these people as either "Kardukh", "Carduchi", "Gordukh", Kyrti(oi), Romans as Cyrti. The Armenians called the Kurds "Gortukh" or "Gortai-kh" and the Persians knew them as "Gord" or "Kord". In the Syriac, Hebrew and Chaldean languages they were, respectively, "Qardu", "Kurdaye" and "Qurdaye". In Aramaic and Nestorian they were "Qadu".(Wikipedia).
Retrieved on March 15, 2007, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people

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