Tengir-Too is a contemporary ensemble that plays traditional music. The group takes its name from the mountain range that towers over the high mountain passes…
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Artist Profiles: Bakyt Chytyrbaev
Kyrgyz musician Bakyt Chytyrbaev came across the kyl-kyjak in his early 20s. While traveling in neighboring Tajikistan he saw it in the hands of a…
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Kyrgyz musician Nurak Abdrakhmanov was born in 1946. It was right after the end of World War 2. Nurak’s father and grandfather, both komuz players,…
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Akylbek Serkebaev hails from Kadji Sai village in Issyk-Kul oblast, Kyrgyzstan. Mr. Serkebaev graduated from the State Music College in Prjevalsk, Kyrgyzstan in 1981, specializing…
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