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AT A TIME when worldly music fans are acquainted with such oddities as Tuvan throat singing, it might seem there are few indigenous styles left to be discovered in remote jungles and mountains. Smithsonian Folkways is proving otherwise with a new musical survey of Central Asia, beginning with three CDs (and inessential accompanying DVDs) featuring Kyrgyzstan's Ensemble Tengir- Too, Tajikstan's Shashmaqam and Afghanistan's Homayun Sakhi. In these countries that were under Moscow's control,...

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