Farewell Gulsary, by Andre Matthias

Farewell Gulsary

by Andre Matthias

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1.	Tanabai 02:03	buy track
2.	Gulsary 01:46	buy track
3.	The Camel's Lament (Koshok) 02:40	buy track
4.	The Herd 01:09	buy track
5.	Dreams and Memories 02:13	buy track
6.	Tanabai's Song 01:39	buy track
7.	Night 02:55	buy track
8.	Pacer 01:28	buy track
9.	The Storm 01:52	buy track
10.	Biubiujan 03:17	buy track
11.	Dark 02:03	buy track
12.	Dshaidar's Song 02:18	buy track
13.	Racing 01:37	buy track
14.	The Vanished Summer 01:40	buy track
15.	Drudgery 01:50	buy track
16.	For Choro 01:21	buy track
17.	Winter 01:32	buy track
18.	Time Passes 01:35	buy track
19.	The New Age 02:50	buy track
20.	The Old Hunter (Koshok) 02:40	buy track
21.	Farewell Gulsary 01:58	buy track

about

Music from the MDR radio play "Abschied von Gülsary".

One last trip over the mountains. The old herdsman Tanabai and his trusted pacer Gulsary are on their way home, but Gulsary will not make it through the night. Famous Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov's novel “Farewell, Gulsary!“ deals with old age, loss, and disenchantment but at the same time celebrates the beauty of life and what we make of it. On this long night in the mountains Tanabai reflects on his life while we in turn learn about Gulsary's, told from the perspective of the horse itself. Sensitively written by Aitmatov and first published in 1963, the wistful story was adapted as a two-part radio play for German MDR radio by award winning director Heike Tauch under the title “Abschied von Gülsary“ in 2021.
I approached the music for this radio play as if scoring a feature film. Only this time most of the music was written and recorded before the script was finished or the actors' voices were recorded.
We tried to cover every mood from the novel and recorded and mixed a score which would allow us to downstrip the music for the final mix, in case the arrangements threatened to overwhelm the soundscape. I also adapted the melody of the koshok, a traditional Kyrgyz lament, for two tracks.
This album features the full version of each track we recorded plus some variations. It is a soundtrack, a concept album, and a tribute to the late Chingiz Aitmatov and his wonderful characters.

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released December 27, 2021

duduk, temir komuz: Sandro Friedrich
guitar: Riccardo Rocchi
oud, tambura, lauto, cümbüs: Christian Fotsch
soprano: Isgaard
mixed by Jens Lück at Art of Music Studio
album cover by Tracy Gilliland

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