Kazakh folk song "This is Life" from the album "Chinese Music map to hear Xinjiang Kazakh folk song collection"

This is Life "Sier Gete" This is life "Sier Gete"

Folk songs Nationality: Kazak Chinese lyrics Compilation: Anonymous Region: Xinjiang

Singing, Dongbula performance: Manaphaz Musa Khan

The Dongbula is perhaps the most familiar national instrument unique to Kazakhstan. This wonderful light plucked instrument used to be often by the whole piece of pine or birch wood, slender rod, finger distribution on the neck, according to the shape of the violin box beautiful and simple, Zhang gut string two, was held in the herdsmen, in the arms of Akon, or sonorous or gurgling, poured out the beauty of the present, the voice of the heart.

The Kazakhs call their singers Akens, which are also troubadours of the steppe. In Kazakh people, "song and horse are the two wings of Kazakh people," from birth to death, "sing to sing."

The vigorous male voice is Shouting and drinking, such as the goshawk swooping, flying high, gliding low, or closing its wings on the peak, waiting for the next takeoff, whether soaring in the clear blue sky or fighting in the violent wind and rain, the day is its territory, even if it can not soar to the end of the day. And Dongbula urgent and fierce singing, sonorous and unrestrained plucking vocal cords full of passion. Perhaps there are few ethnic groups such as the uncertain migration, every year with the family to move to different pastures, a lot of life on horseback galloping on the Kazakh, as deeply appreciate the "life like travel" four words. In their short lives, as this song and melody show, they seem to be unhindered or repelled in pursuit of fullness and happiness, like a horse galloping to the face of the pain and joy.