Vinyl Record
Nashenas - Life Is A Heavy Burden
Nashenas - Life Is A Heavy Burden on LP vinyl. A 2022 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2022
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2022 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Life Is A Heavy Burden presents Nashenas, the Afghan ghazal singer born Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat, through recordings made at Radio Afghanistan Studios and later issued on singles in Iran. Released as a 2022 compilation, it opens a window onto a mid-20th-century Afghan popular-classical world where poetry, broadcast culture and regional circulation met in a fragile historical space. The Way I Love My Beloved, Your Sorrow Is Killing Me, Flower Had a Thorn, I Am Happy Alone, the title track and The Author of Destiny are not arranged as museum fragments; they move with vocal command, melodic sorrow and the poised intensity of a singer whose phrasing can make longing feel formal without making it cold. The album's time context matters deeply because Afghan recorded heritage has often reached international listeners in scattered form. Here the music arrives as a focused portrait: ghazal feeling, radio-era presence, Persianate lyricism and a voice carrying private burden through public song.
Life Is A Heavy Burden matters because it gives international vinyl listeners a concentrated encounter with Nashenas and Afghan ghazal beyond generic world-music framing. It preserves a broadcast and singles-era repertoire while foregrounding the emotional discipline of the voice itself.
For collectors, this is a culturally specific and musically rich Strut-era archival title, useful for shelves that connect South and Central Asian vocal traditions, radio history and poetic song. Its value is the access it gives to a major Afghan singer in a carefully framed LP sequence.
Afghan ghazal and radio-era vocal music with expressive ornament, poised melancholy, traditional melodic contours, restrained accompaniment and a dignified sense of longing.
Recommended for: Collectors exploring Afghan and Persianate vocal traditions; Listeners drawn to archival world-music releases with strong narrative context; Fans of ghazal singing where restraint intensifies emotion.
Who is Nashenas? Nashenas is the performing name of Afghan singer Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat. What kind of music is on Life Is A Heavy Burden? The compilation centres on Afghan ghazal and related vocal songs marked by poetic longing and controlled melodic expression. When was this LP compilation released? Life Is A Heavy Burden was released in 2022, drawing on earlier recordings associated with Radio Afghanistan and later singles.