on the occasion of our last visit to dushanbe, we were invited by k. to enjoy a wonderful dinner. she also invited a amazing dancer to enjoy all participants: tajiks, kazakhs, turkmens, kyrgyz, americans, british and austrians.

well, sauseschritt thought he should thank k. for the nice evening. and he also thought he should pay back: with some music from the asiatic caravan, a fusion of iranian, chinese, indian, arabic ond many other traditions. javid knows how to work it out. hope she likes it. thanks again, k.!

Asiatic Caravan

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also, sauseschritt, ran ans werk und ihr da draussen und davon betroffenen, bitte nicht persönlich nehmen!