Zaur Nagoy – Djeguako: Live at Red Bull Music Festival
Moscow (2018) 320kbps
The Red Bull Music Festival took place on September 14-16 in
Moscow. Red Bull conducts similar festivals around the world and every time
tries to demonstrate the potential of local music and situate local sounds
within a global context. The Moscow event was constructed around the same
principles, with the slogan: "The unity of musical culture: from tradition
to experiment."
In regard to tradition and experiments, Ored Recordings was
invited to give our perspective . Our portion was titled: Experimental Ethnographics,
in which we spoke with the French documentarian, our friend and source of
inspiration Vincent Moon, and the founder of the Morphine Records label, Rabih
Beaini from Berlin. Vincent's lecture and the collaborative audiovisual
performance with Rabih features an experimental approach to ethnography and
music and in this showcase Ored presented "original" sounds. For this
we brought from Adygea the trio of Zaur Nagoy, Kazbek Nagaroko and Ramazan Daur
- famous for their ensemble Zhyu, the film "Bonfires and Stars," and
our releases of their music.
At the last moment, due to a force majeure and only Nagoy
reached the festival. For the festival, the label,and Zaur, these logistical
changes became a real challenge. it became necessary to change the concept and
format of the showcase.
In Circassian music, group performance is canon. In the
choir (zhyu / ezhu) there is a saying: "The zhyu is a whip for a
song." The chorus of refrains and vocals largely determines the structure,
rhythm and dynamics of a song. Even the outstanding Djeguako (minstrels) of the
past have always had a small ensemble to back them up. At the same time, in
archival records solo performance is quite common.
