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Language(s) Kyrgyz
Composer: Karamoldo Orozov (1883-1960)
Performer: Nurak Abdrakhmanov, komuz

Throughout Central Asia, legends portray Kambarkan, also known as Kambar-ata, as the father of music, inventor of musical instruments, and patron of musicians. Among Kyrgyz musicians, he is regarded as the creator of the komuz. Nurak recounts the creation legend as follows: “Kambarkan was a hunter, and once when he went to the forest, a monkey fell as he jumped from one tree to another. The monkey’s stomach became impaled on a sharp twig and burst open, and his intestine got stretched out between a high tree branch and the ground. When it dried, a wind came up, and the intestine emitted a magical sound. Kambarkan realized that the sound was coming from the monkey’s intestine, and he got the idea of using that intestine to make an instrument. He took a piece of wood, curved it, and fixed the intestine tightly over it. That’s how he invented the komuz.” No evidence suggests that monkeys ever lived in what is now Kyrgyzstan, but terra-cotta statues of monkeymusicians dating back almost two thousand years have been unearthed in various parts of Central Asia. A variant of the legend recounted by Nurak was also known in India, where it turns up in 14th-century literary sources, underscoring historical links between Central Asia and the Subcontinent.

There are many variants of “Kambarkan” in the repertory of komuz players, but all exhibit a deep philosophical and meditative character and are played in a specific tuning with the strings set at the interval of a fifth (bosh tolgoo). “Instrumental music starts where the expressive power of words ends,” Nurak explains. “Words have a limit: they can describe thoughts up to a point: after that, there are other feelings that we can express only with music. Music is more important than verbal traditions, and instrumental music is the highest expression of the Kyrgyz soul.”

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