#3783: Music from Central Asia With Ustatshakirt Plus, Live

Take a musical tour of Central Asia, with a long stopover in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. For the first time ever on New Sounds, hear a traditional Kyrgyz music ensemble  - Nurlanbek Nishanov & Ustatshakirt Plus (their name means “Master Apprentice”)  - who are here as part of a collaboration with the Seán Curran Dance Company running at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Also, meet Betsy Coker, the co-artistic director of and a dancer in the Seán Curran Company. The musicians and dance company met at a private concert in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, while the Seán Curran Company was on their State Department cultural exchange tour in 2012,  DanceMotion USA^SM.  

Listen to the Kyrgyz folk singing and traditional instruments: springy jaw harps called timur komuz, the ocarina flute-like choor, the lute-like komuz, and the two-stringed upright bowed fiddle, the kyl kiak. Ustatshakirt Plus plays some of their tunes from the collaborative production, “Dream’d in a Dream” which tells the story of the Seán Curran Company’s travels throughout Central Asia.

SEE "Dream'd in a Dream" at BAM, through October 10

Then, listen to more music from Central Asia, including music from Xinjiang province of the Turkic Uyghur people. Listen to Afghan rubâb virtuoso Homayun Sakhi's luminous "Rainbow," featuring Kronos Quartet, tabla, and Central Asian percussion, and spirited arrangements of Azerbaijani songs. Also, there’s music by Betty Anne Wong and the Phoenix Spring Ensemble, a group of intrepid musical travelers from San Francisco. Their music draws on folk music of Tajikistan, Kazhakstan, Turkey and Iran. Plus, more music from along the Silk Road from Chinese pipa master Wu Man, Tajik musicians Abduvali Abdurashidov on sato-tanbur and Sirojiddin Juraev, on dutar.

PROGRAM #3783 Music from Central Asia feat. Ustatshakirt Plus from Kyrgyzstan, live;  (First Aired 10-07-2015);