Kazbek by Mountains of Tongues

Originally issued in September 2014 on Winebox Press in an edition of 70 copies.

This collection acts as something of a Bootleg Series companion to the Mountains of Tongues LP and features material from the same sessions as well as more recent recordings from June and July 2014. The tapes are organised - somewhat loosely - organologically (one tape each of vocals, wind instrumentation, instrumental strings and ensemble performances) and include unedited recordings of bardic epics, city art music, folkloric groups, sacred songs, ballads and laments interspersed with the sounds of wrestling matches, engagement parties, feasts and roadside gatherings.

Mountains of Tongues was founded in late 2012 in a teahouse in Tbilisi, Georgia by Stefan Williamson Fa and Ben Wheeler and was born out of a desire to promote the musical diversity of the Caucasus. MOT aims to help document and promote this musical diversity in an independent, holistic, and freeform style without regard to national or political borders. The initial stage of the project involved recording musicians from underrepresented musical traditions throughout Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and has since developed to create a collective of regional and international collaborators contributing to an online archive of this music. In November 2013 “Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus” was released on vinyl by L.M. Dupli-Cation records, compiling a selection of recordings from sessions with over 50 musicians held between November 2012 and June 2013.
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released April 17, 2015

Recorded by Ben Wheeler, Bulat Khalilov, Timur Kodzoko and Stefan Williamson Fa
Mixed by Stefan Williamson Fa
Released by Winebox Press
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