And with that, I'm shuffling over towards the door, just underneath that dim exit sign that keeps blinking on and off, its fluorescent bulbs cracking with some syncopated rhythm all their own.

ENGADGET: Hello, I must be going

And in the opening number, "Da zemong Ziba Watan, " when the full ensemble let loose with Eastern drums tabla, dhol, zirbaghali pounding out the infectious, syncopated rhythm, the audience began to clap along to this tune popularized by Mr. Sarmast's father.

WSJ: Making Music Against the Odds | Ensembles of Afghanistan National Institute of Music

The first thing one notices on the majority of the 171 tracks here is the way the band swings as a whole, whether in the syncopated two-beat of the 1929-30 sessions, which employ a banjo and tuba in the rhythm section, or in the more smoothed-out solid-four grooves of the band in the war years, propelled by guitar and bass in addition to Hines himself.

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