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Musician: Mohammad Alim Maihan
Location: Leicester
Instruments: harmonium, tabla, voice
Music: Afghan
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Where I Play:
In Afghanistan I played for parties and friends and other people. For people from Afghanistan, malli is good - everybody dances. There's 200/250 people - yeah it's a big party - always with live music. Afghanistan parties are long, starting at 5 o'clock in the evening until one or two, four, sometimes five o'clock. I stay the whole time because I must earn my money. I was at one party in Afghanistan when the Taliban arrested me. There was a problem but after a week my father gave $4,500 to somebody from the Taliban and I was freed. I came to England and applied to be an asylum seeker. I've been here for two years. The Taliban is gone, but it's still not safe. The first time I played in England was a year ago at a party at the International Hotel and at two or three parties in London. I played with other musicians. I play harmonium and sing and another person plays the tabla. But it's difficult to play here in Leicester. There are no other Afghan people, no Afghan musicians.
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