Sagynych (Music)

Sagynych (Iradi, "longing") is a song mode of Iradi folk music for absent people and places. It is slow and in free rhythm, sung by the voice alone or with the komuz, with long held notes broken by a catch in the voice, and its words are built from the singer's road and the person missed.^[1]

It was sung on the far summer pastures, by the caravan men of the 19th century and by Soviet conscripts, and today by Iradi migrant workers in Russia and the Gulf states, who send sagynych home as voice messages (see Sapar Jigitteri). The folklorist Sagyn Jusupbekov recorded many examples between 1968 and 1979. The Mor-Folk ensemble Eski Ün and other Mor-Folk musicians have recorded sagynych over dark synthesizer drones.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Jusupbekov, Sagyn (1989). Oral Folk Art of Irad, vol. V: Lyric and Ritual Poetry. Kobozev.
2. ^ Central Asian Cultural Studies Review (2020). 'Stage, Screen and Club: Performing Arts in the ISEZ.' Vol. 13, pp. 77–96.