Today
is THE day in the history of the Silk Road House – the first and beautiful
series of compact discs entitled “Musical Treasures of the Silk Road House” came
successfully out. The series consists of the
following discs (each being published in 1000 copies):
1. Elmira Janabergenova, Kazakhstan. “Songs from the Aral
Sea” – 1 compact disc with complete English translation of all 18 song
texts.
2. Bidas Rustembekov. “Kazakh Terme. Sung Poetry of Wisdom”
– 1 compact disc with complete English translation of all 33 song
texts.
3. Faik Chelebi, Tar. “The Classical Muğam of Azerbaijan in
Solo Instrumental Performance” – 1 compact disc.
4. “The Epic Körughly.” Performed by Bidas Rustembekov. The
English synopsis by Alma Kunanbaeva. – 2 compact discs in one set.
5. “An Anthology of Kazakh Epic Songs and Dombra Kyuis”
(recording) and
“A
Journey to Epic Qyzylorda: Three Kazakh Jyraus” (video) – 1 compact disc and 1
video disc in one set.
All
English translations (the poetry included) are made by Scott Bartling of
Stanford University.
All
discs have two logos – that of Silk Road House and that of The Christensen
Fund
whose generous grant made it possible to accomplish this project. We hope to be
able to organize the appropriate public
presentations of the discs in the middle of February 2014.
Some
digipaks of that series (as many of you surely know, digipak is a style of CD
packaging that is nowadays often used for CD singles or special editions of CD
albums) you will eventually see on our facebook page as the preliminary
illustrations.
In
2014, we plan to develop this project on our website posting there all recorded
texts in three languages – Kazakh, Russian and English, plus necessary comments
and some archival photographs.
