{"id":1726,"date":"2025-12-18T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:54:54","slug":"tal-39-music-from-the-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"TAL 39 \/ Music from the Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TAL 39
MUSIC FROM THE CAUCASUS
The Archive of ORED Recordings, 2013\u20132023

LP plus free DL \/ CD

Release: 30. January 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worldwide distribution:
MORR
Forced Exposure
Boomkat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Various Artists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A
1 \u2014 Nart Shabatynoqo \u2014 1:39
Tizhin Gup
(Circassian) Maykop, Republic of Adygea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 \u2014 Ritmik improvizasiya \u2014 3:16
Kamran K\u0259rimov v\u0259 Yusif \u018fzizov
(Azeri) Baku, Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 \u2014 Sivrin Dun \u2014 3:20
Tatiana Dordzhieva and Maria Beltsykova
(Oirat\/Kalmykian) Bulgun village, Kalmykia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 \u2014 Qartuli Dance \u2014 0:55
Arkady and Arseniy Kagramyan
(Armenian\/Georgian) Derbent, Dagestan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 \u2014 Abredj Nuh \u2014 0:54
Mutat and Ilyas from Ulyap
(Circassian) Archival cassette from 90\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 \u2014 Barkhallal Dawdi \u2014 3:28
Balkhar Ensemble
(Lak) Balkhar village, Dagestan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 \u2014 Nart Shabatynoqo \u2014 2:53
Zamudin Guchev
(Circassian) Maykop, Republic of Adygea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1 \u2014 Arazbari \u2014 3:31
\u015eirzad F\u0259t\u0259liyev v\u0259 Arazbar\u0131 Balaban Qrupu
(Azeri) Baku, Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 \u2014 Perizada \u2014 1:34
Bagdagyul Ramazanova
(Lezgi) Akhty village, Dagestan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 \u2014 C\u0259ngi \u2014 3:08
\u015eirzad F\u0259t\u0259liyev v\u0259 Arazbar\u0131 Balaban Qrupu
(Azeri) Baku, Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 \u2014 Yali \u2014 1:04
Bagdagyul Ramazanova
(Lezgi) Akhty village, Dagestan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 \u2014 H\u00fcseyni \u2014 5:46
A\u015f\u0131q Altay
(Azeri) Baku, Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 \u2014 Humayun \u2014 2:00
Mirjavid C\u0259f\u0259rov
(Azeri) Baku, Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 \u2014 Si Woreyda \u2014 2:29
Nayil Quoshi
(Circassian) Kayseri, T\u00fcrkiye
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The label ORED Recordings was founded in 2013 by Circassian friends and fellow musicians Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko, in order to start an activity which is dedicated to documenting and preserving the traditional and post-traditional music of the North Caucasus. Khalilov and Kodzoko, were just as excited about this music as it sounded like a force that transcends borders and in which time dissolves and community becomes the only compass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through hundreds of field recordings, which have been made at communal gatherings, local festivities or family meetings, the label has captured a wide range of individual voices and their unique acoustic manifestations. All recordings on this album capture the raw expressiveness of the mountainside villages. Music performances being played by people who dedicate their love to music and an additional willingness to share intimate emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas most academic ethnomusicologists travel around the world in order to study foreign cultures, Bulat Khalilov  and Timur Kodzoko were fascinated by what they just heard in the familiar regions of their then home town Nalchik. In resolute contrast to Russian academic circles, they soon developed a DIY Punk ethos for their far reaching work, beginning to formulate their own language in the field of ethnomusicology and to push the traditions forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the label\u2019s work goes far beyond mere preservation. \u00bbWe started traveling around the North Caucasus and did recordings with people from many different ethnic groups. In the North Caucasus, our work had a political dimension because there used to be (and still are) a lot of conflicts between different ethnic groups. We quickly understood that our work is not just about music and art,\u00ab states Bulat Khalilov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work of the label aims to reflect not only the great music of the Caucasus and its various communities but also to tell the stories behind it. They are stories of struggle, of independence, of working with historical memory in the present times of the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko are now based at the University of G\u00f6ttingen, we were able to meet each other many times and to eventually exchange ideas which resulted in the release of this collection of recordings. The compilation \u00bbMusic from the Caucasus\u00ab provides a first introduction to the comprehensive work of ORED Recordings. For this collaborative release on TAL the recordings are being made accessible for the first time ever on vinyl, CD and various digital formats, all coming with extensive liner notes and yet unpublished photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulat Khalilov and Stefan Schneider, November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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