Kashgar love song "Liliguri" from the album "Music Map of China to hear Xinjiang Uygur Muqam song Music Collection"

Laili Guli

Folk music Ethnic Group: Uygur Region: Kashgar, Xinjiang

Ek: Adelie Abbotz

The stringed sound here comes from Aichek. It is a bowstring instrument common to Uyghur, Uzbek and Tajik people in Xinjiang. It has a unique shape, spherical cylinder, wrapped with python skin on the inside, sound holes distributed around, slender rod, with 1-3 main strings and 5-10 resonance strings. Holding the piano in the left hand to press the string, holding the bow in the right hand to play is this fine listening, a bit like the bearing squeaky rotation but beautiful abnormal string sound.

This song "Liliguri" is a Kashgar love song that has been around for a long time. At first, the melody fluctuates high and low in a soothing rhythm such as meditation and reverie, and the phrases are stretched and circled, like haunting thoughts, like wandering again and again outside the lover's door; Then the rhythm is fast, the mood suddenly becomes more intense and clear, and the joy of expressing it is like dancing and Shouting, singing that the wish is finally realized, and the love is finally complete.