The Baluchi people live scattered between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
Music is a common thread in their lives.
Baluchi weddings and circumcision rituals, births and funerals, are all accompanied by professional musicians. Nasally sung songs are accompanied by acoustic music which sounds like that of Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan with definite Indian and Arab influences in the song structure. The songs are repetitious and trance-like, similar to the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, only with a chorus instead of a leader. Many other instruments join the songs for special occasions This album was recorded in the Baluchi quarter of Karachi, Pakistan in 1996. It samples each type of song - festival songs, wedding songs, songs of praise, and two trance songs.