Totally AMAZING fantasy music video with unidentified dombra hero! No wonder the ice queen melts!
This is a propaganda video for the Kazakhstan armed forces. Again, I have no info about the artist. The dombra is relegated to a symbolical role. The accordion reminds me of Tatar music (and Russian and Finnish, obviously). Note the final "inspiring" quote by Nursultan Nazarbayev...
And as always when I see footage of soldiers, I think: "Poor boys."
(Though riding through the steppe is strangely tempting...)
About us
Tinet - after many years of studying among other things the Russian language and the cultural history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, she has moved to one of the many cities of her dreams (Berlin, Germany) and works as a gun for hire for various publishing companies with typesetting, graphic design, translating and writing, besides drawing comics about funny Russians. She dreams of making big fat richly illustrated coffee table books about the images of Central Asian, Caucasian or Russian men from a cultural historic angle.
Ainur - Ph.D. of History at the University of Lund, Sweden, who in her research has focused on nationalism, identity and stereotypes, mainly in the context of Finnish views on Swedes. She also draws historically correct comics about the Jazz age in the 1920's, which also deal with nationalism, identity and stereotypes, in a quite entertaining way.
Tinet and Ainur are sisters, and their ethnic background is as follows: 62.5% Finnish, 25% Mishär Tatar, 12.5% Kale (Finnish Roma).
5 comments:
Miksmua alko itkettään toi propagandafilmi?
Hello Ainur and Tinet! This is Sarah at Silk Road Freeways. Thanks so much for your comments and kind words about my blog. Can't believe there are people equally obsessed with this kind of culture out there. Love your blog. I'm honored to get a shout-out. I'm part swedish myself.
As for the dombra hero video, I can't access your link on Mongolian internet, but I bet I've seen it before. Is it this one, by Asylbek Ensepov?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7WXs79uUZQ&mode=related&search=
http://silkroadfreeways.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/genius/
"If I were to write a sci-fi/fantasy interracial romance novel set in Central Asia, and if it were to include bellydancers and boa constrictors and magical Kazakh lutes --
it might look like this."
Hello, Sarah!
Thank you for your kind words. We're honoured to have you here. :o)
Yes, you guessed right about the dombra hero video!
Hi Sarah, thank you so much for the information about the video. Someone had uploaded lots of Kazakh videos on YouTube without any details, and I was wondering who the artist might be. I loved your comment about it, and I agree totally! Someone needs to write that novel, I think we've got lots of potential readers right here :)
Nice song! It is propoganda for recruiting kazakhs to go to the army:)
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