The history of recording no. PK 232 from now pashto song Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 65 sec
✓ Published: 10-Oct-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 „Halfmoon Camp“ south of Berlin, where so called colonial soldiers who served in the British Army 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 Afghanistan Nation