Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8

Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8 is an album by the Kronos Quartet, in collaboration with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi. The album is released by Folkways Records as a co-production between the Smithsonian Institution and the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia.

Musicians

 * David Harrington - violin
 * John Sherba - violin
 * Hank Dutt - viola
 * Jeffrey Zeigler - cello
 * Homayun Sakhi - Afghan rubab
 * Salar Nader - tabla
 * Abbos Kosimov - doyra, qayraq
 * Alim Qasimov - vocal (tracks 2-6)
 * Farghana Qasimova - vocal, daf (tracks 2-6)
 * Rafael Asgarov - balaban (tracks 2-6)
 * Rauf Islamov - kamancheh (tracks 2-6)
 * Ali Asgar Ammadov - tar (tracks 2-6)
 * Vugar Sharifzadeh - naghara (tracks 2-6)

Production
Track 1 recorded at Skywalker Sound, Lucas Valley, California, March 2009
 * Joel Gordon - recording engineer

Tracks 2-6 recorded at Livingston Recording Studios, London, England, September 2008
 * Scott Fraser - recording engineer
 * Joel Gordon - mastering
 * Sebastien Schuytser - photography
 * Jay Blakesberg - photography
 * Rachel Bleckman - photography
 * Aida Huseynova, Anna Oldfield - translation (Azerbeijani lyrics)