sometimes I think how this planet is big and multilayered. Accidentally (as with nearly all my musical discoveries) I've recently started to discover #Kazakh #Music. It's that very case when you have deep feelings resonating inside you but you can't really explain it, although you have enough knowledge in musical theory. Like, the main Kazakh instrument is a dombra/dombyra, which is a two-stringed lute.
What can you get from just two strings tuned in fourth or fifth?
Actually, lots of stuff. But when you try to put it into words, it becomes tasteless and colorless.
Kazakhs have a traditional form of musical art called küy, it's basically instrumental pieces for dombra, most often improvized, expressing the musician's feelings or impressions of an event, meeting or changes in his/her life.
anyway, if you want to have a very interesting listening experience you've possibly never had, try googling for Kazakh traditional songs and music. Maybe it won't resonate with you as it did with me, but it's still interesting.
#Kazakhstan #Ethnomusicology #Folk #Traditional

@menelion There are other Kazakh instruments that might be interesting too; kobyz, sybyzgy, etc. I always encourage people to explore, and that doesn’t have to result in falling in love with a given musical tradition or instrument. If it does, awesome! The exploring and learning is the key thing. I also often tell people: “8 billion people on this planet, but 261 billion tastes in music. It shifts with time and the weather, or something.”