Various Artists

The label ORED Recordings was founded in 2013 by Circassian friends and fellow musicians Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko, in order to start an activity which is dedicated to documenting and preserving the traditional and post-traditional music of the North Caucasus. Khalilov and Kodzoko, were just as excited about this music as it sounded like a force that transcends borders and in which time dissolves and community becomes the only compass.

Through hundreds of field recordings, which have been made at communal gatherings, local festivities or family meetings, the label has captured a wide range of individual voices and their unique acoustic manifestations. All recordings on this album capture the raw expressiveness of the mountainside villages. Music performances being played by people who dedicate their love to music and an additional willingness to share intimate emotions.

Whereas most academic ethnomusicologists travel around the world in order to study foreign cultures, Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko were fascinated by what they just heard in the familiar regions of their then home town Nalchik. In resolute contrast to Russian academic circles, they soon developed a DIY Punk ethos for their far reaching work, beginning to formulate their own language in the field of ethnomusicology and to push the traditions forward.

• 01 Tizhin Gup - Nart Shabatynoqo
• 02 Kamran Krimov and Yusif zizov - Ritmik improvizasiya
• 03 Tatiana Dordzhieva and Maria Beltsykova - Sivrin Dun
• 04 Arkady and Arseniy Kagramyan - Qartuli Dance
• 05 Mutat and Ilyas from Ulyap - Abredj Nuh
• 06 Balkhar Ensemble - Barkhallal Dawdi
• 07 Zamudin Guchev - Nart Shabatynoqo
• 08 Tizhin Gup - Zazu Daxe
• 09 Sirzad Ft liyev v Arazbari Balaban Qrupu - Arazbari
• 10 Bagdagyul Ramazanova - Perizada
• 11 Sirzad Ftliyev v Arazbari Balaban Qrupu - C ngi
• 12 Bagdagyul Ramazanova - Yali
• 13 Asiq Altay - Huseyni
• 14 Mirjavid C f rov - Humayun
• 15 Nayil Quoshi - Si Woreyda