Gunesh

Gunesh

The Gunesh Ensemble was founded in 1970 in Ashkhabad, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union. They started out as a vocal group with supporting musicians from Turkmenistan State Radio and TV. Later several young musicians came to play with them and the band's music became much more modern. The group began to play jazz-rock tightly intertwined with traditional Oriental music. This, their very fine first LP was originally released in 1980 on the Soviet state label Melodiya and contains traditional Central Asian music in jazz-rock arrangements plus a Vietnamese singer.

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