"Baku Silk Way" festival to kick off in Azerbaijan
By Aygul Salmanova
Germany's Goethe Institute will hold the "Baku Silk Road" festival, with the participation of well-known musicians from Germany, Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, according to the German embassy.
Within the framework of the festival to be held on December 5-14, jazz concerts, musical seminars, as well as various exhibitions will be held in Baku.
The countries represented in the event are part of the historical Silk Road. This road is a convenient opportunity not only for the exchange of goods, but also for the exchange of art and ideas between East and West, Germans believe.
The events will be held at Kapellhaus, Shirvanshahs Palace, Rotunda Jazz Club and Chamber & Organ Music Hall with free access.
The music will flow between oriental jazz, electronic and classical, featuring groups and musicians such as Rain Lab, Asia Tengri & Nazgul Shukaeva, Lebi Derya, Rain Sultanov and Isfar Sarabski, Divan Accoustic and Divan of the Continents.
Rain Lab, a new generation trip hop and world music trio from Istanbul that tells the stories of love and loss, beauty and truth in the style of modern times bards with an electronic twist. Turkish hiphop DJ and producer Da Poet’s elegant beats meet singer-songwriter Idil Mese’s distant and melancholic vocals and Beril Mese’s soulful saxophone riffs.
Asia Tengri & Nazgul Shukaeva, the international project that unites musicians from different countries. A unique alloy from ethno, jazz and modern avant-garde merging with ancient authentic songs from Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Tuva, as well as author's compositions, gives a new breath to creativity and a new musical style emergence.
Lebi Derya, in which four virtuoso individualists merge their musical backgrounds into a uniquely multifaceted collective sound. LebiDerya’s concerts offer a mixture of musical poetry and pulsating energy – keen and powerful, longingly and dreamy. Wanderlust with a German-Oriental accent.
Rain Sultanov and Isfar Sarabski’s 'Cycle', which is not just a music project. It has an interesting content. Three instruments - organ, saxophone and piano - that have not been used before in combination are merged in one theme. 'Cycle' can be described as a representative of consequential phases of human genesis and evolution and explores different alternatives and options of its development.
Divan Accoustic and Divan of the Continents, is a special project created for Baku by the Berlin-based chamber orchestra Divan of the Continents. The performing acoustic sextet is a fragment of that larger musical collective having its music based on concepts of free improvisation, mimesis and dialogue, as well as translation and appropriation.
Meanwhile two art exhibitions will explore the unique carpet deformations of Faiq Ahmed and the sounds of Vertigo, which takes inspiration from Eastern classical poetry.
Faig Ahmed’s sweeping carpet installation at the Kapellhaus is taking us to the very origins and the cradle of the art of weaving which arose in this region. The warps, usually seen only as fringes in carpet and otherwise covered with knots, become the central part of Ahmed’s work.
Being a sound installation inspired by classical Oriental poetry, national and European music traditions Vertigo is conceived by artist Farhad Farzaliyev, poet Leyli Salayeva, musicologist Jahangir Selimkhanov and curator Asli Samadova, The collective studies transformation of a part of the ‘Seven Beauties’ poem (1197) written by the great Azerbaijani poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209) and imagines its further development in modern times.
A lecture by Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars completes the line-up. This collective devote their practice - exhibitions, books and lecture-performances - to an area between the former Berlin wall and the Great Wall of China. In The Tranny Tease lecture-performance the collective will focus on the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as the eastern and western frontiers of the Turkic sphere, namely Anatolia and Xinjiang/Uighuristan.
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