Bulgun Lapsina, About the Music of Tersk Kalmyks and Folk Songs
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Bulgun talks about dances, musical instruments and songs that Tersk Kalmyks dance, play and sing:Tersk Kalmyks danced lezginka and played on buckets as one would do on drums. We also played on dombra and the Saratov accordion. ‘Yalukha’ is a good song. I tell my grandchildren that it resembles a ‘rap’, because of the same rhythm. Kalmyk ensembles sing various songs, but not this one. There is another beautiful song called ‘Keemya’. When we lived in Siberia, we also had pre-war recordings of the epos ‘Jangar’, which I really enjoyed listening to. The song ‘Tavn uulyn beld’, probably, is a war-time song about Pyatigorsk. Its lyrics are: ‘Cannonballs fly at the foot of the Five Mountains. Despite the cannon balls, we will win! Bullets fly at the foot of two mountains. Despite the bullets, we will defeat the enemy!’