Lives Less Ordinary, Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

April 14, 2024

41 minutes

Available for over a year

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

Daniyal Ahmed is a flute player and anthropologist who spends his time searching out and documenting folk music across Pakistan. In 2018, he was mesmerised by a video clip of an elderly man – described as a “poor fisherman” – expertly playing a benjo, an obscure stringed instrument that looks like a cross between a guitar and a typewriter. So began Daniyal’s hunt for this mystery master musician.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar

Producer: Maryam Maruf

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