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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘dombra’

  • Freestailo Lives

    Thanks to J’s comment on an earlier post for this update on who freestailo is: According to this YouTube Video: His name is Ernar Kaldynov, was born in Karoi, small village in Western Kazakhstan. in 2007 he took part as singer with dombra(Kazakh National Instrument) in SuperStar.KZ show (Kazakh version of American Idol), but did […]

  • Jumyr Kylysh or Two Warriors

    Jumyr Kylysh or Two Warriors

    Chris Merriman was kind enough to lend me Ulytau’s most recent album, Jumyr Kylysh which is being released in English as Two Warriors. I suppose the name change is because Jumyr Kylysh seems to mean “round ball” in Kazakh. Non-Kazakhs, who have never heard of Ulytau, would not expect an album called Round Ball to […]