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Roksonaki will have two new CDs for sale during the Nauryz Tour - Evolution and New Songs. Evolution will feature Roksonaki’s best tunes sampled from all the work they have created since they came into existence in 1990. New Songs will be full of surprises. Ruslan Kara has been hard at work recording brand new tracks that emerge from improvisations with a Kazakh shaman (or baksy). The sound is more deeply Roksy than you can imagine. Read more…

CENTRAL ASIAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE

NAURYZ WITH ROKSONAKI
March 4 - April 11, 2008

CalendarRoksonaki on tour

March 4
Depart from Almaty,
Arrive JFK Airport

March 7
Concert Stony Brook University Wong Center
Stony Brook, NY
8 pm Tickets: $15 gen’l admis. $10 students Read more…

The Central Asian Cultural Exchange presents Roksonaki – Kazakhstan’s most experimental neotraditionalist musical group – in a six-city tour of the US.

March 4 through April 11, 2008

Roksonaki formed in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1990 under the direction of Ruslan Kara, who sought to create new music using motifs drawn from Eurasia’s indigenous religious traditions. Roksonaki pioneered the creation of arrangements that integrate ancient Kazakh instrumentation – the traditional kylkobyz, shankobyz, sazsyrnai and dombra – with contemporary rock music and jazz. Roksonaki’s fresh approach immediately attracted a lot of attention and they received the prestigious Aziia Dausy/Voice of Asia Award at the very beginning of their career. Read more…