ossory

Baku sung by the wind that named it: a city built on half the world's oil, Nobel-family barons, an eternal fire nobody lit, an eight-hundred-year tower nobody understands, and a sea that's really a lake — Odlar Yurdu, the Land of Fire, but the Xəzri wind runs the town.

L38 The Local Anthems Azerbaijani folk-rock fusion / mugham-metal, ~155 BPM, male + female co-leads

Land Of Fire City Of Wind

Style

A fast, defiant Azerbaijani folk-rock fusion around 155 BPM, driven by nagara double hand-drums and daf frame-drum, with screaming zurna and balaban trading lines against distorted guitar over plucked tar and bowed kamancha, sung by equal male and female Azerbaijani-accented co-leads in mugham-inflected unison and call-and-response choruses.

Tags

  • #Baku
  • #Azerbaijan
  • #OdlarYurdu
  • #LandOfFire
  • #CaspianSea
  • #FlameTowers
  • #Mugham
  • #FolkRock
  • #Zurna
  • #CityAnthem
  • #SatiricalSong
  • #WorldFusion
  • #Absheron
  • #originalsong
  • #ossory