Polygon

Description

Kazakh-British artist Galya Bisengalieva returns in 2023 with her second studio album for One Little Independent, ‘Polygon’. Today she shares the second single from the record, titled ‘Alash-Kala’. Like Galya’s 2020 debut album ‘Aralkum’ the composer, producer and musician returns to stories from her home country of Kazakhstan. While ‘Aralkum’ was about the shrinking of the Aral Sea, ‘Polygon’ tells the tale of one of the darkest episodes in Kazakh history. Though it created more nuclear fallout than Chernobyl, the story of the Semipalatinsk Test Site located on the steppe in north east Kazakhstan (known as The Polygon) is little known internationally even though it was the Soviet Union’s primary testing zone for nuclear weapons. ‘The elemental talents of LCO violinist and composer Galya Bisengalieva flourish on a second album of avant classical explorations inspired by Kazakh folklore, ecology and history’ boomkat.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Alash-kala – Galya Bisengalieva (3.44)
2. Saryzhal – Galya Bisengalieva (2.43)
3. Polygon – Galya Bisengalieva (7.21)
4. Sary-uzen – Galya Bisengalieva (1.58)
5. Chagan – Galya Bisengalieva (5.02)
6. Balapan – Galya Bisengalieva (5.13)
7. Degelen – Galya Bisengalieva (7.38)