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The Silk Road
During the Middle Ages, the Silk Road was an unparalleled cultural formation. Most famous in the west as the route Marco Polo took on his journey to the eastern most reaches of the earth, the Silk Road stretched from Italy to Japan and passed through Turkey, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and China. More than just a trade route for transporting silk, spices, and other valuables from one end of Eurasia to the other, the Silk Road was as a cultural formation transmitting unique musical traditions, epic tales of heroic stature, and splendid culinary delights.
Roksonaki US Tour 2008 - brief participants bio’s
Ruslan Karin
Musician/Composer/Sound Engineer. Founded Roksonaki in 1990. Ruslan was the first Kazakhstan artist to work in the style of world music, creating original music in which there was an organic synthesis of ethnic cultural roots and influences from rock and jazz. Winner of First Prize in the International Voice of Asia Annual Competition in 1990. Participant in several festivals, including Think Music, Winnipeg, Canada (1991), the Asian Festival, Berlin, Germany (1994), and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival “The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust,” Washington, DC, USA (2002).
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Musician/Composer/Sound Engineer. Founded Roksonaki in 1990. Ruslan was the first Kazakhstan artist to work in the style of world music, creating original music in which there was an organic synthesis of ethnic cultural roots and influences from rock and jazz. Winner of First Prize in the International Voice of Asia Annual Competition in 1990. Participant in several festivals, including Think Music, Winnipeg, Canada (1991), the Asian Festival, Berlin, Germany (1994), and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival “The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust,” Washington, DC, USA (2002).
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