Violinist Galya Bisengalieva – best known for her work with Radiohead and Frank Ocean – has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Aralkum’, through One Little Independent on 4 Sep.The album is inspired by the Aral Sea in Central Asia.
That was once the fourth largest lake in the world but is now all but gone, after the rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet irrigation projects in the 1960s – a move dubbed “one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters”.The themes of the album are laid out in its first single ‘Barsa-Kelmes’ and the accompanying video.“It was important to me that this was made by somebody, who, like myself, grew up with the story of this disaster, as well as visiting the area and experiencing the.
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