Amour 18350 Kars

About this film

Performer: Սազանդար Գէորգ և Գէրասիմ / Сазандари Геворкъ и Герасимъ (Sazandar Georg yev Gerasim) Matrix number: 18350 Catalog number: Amour Gramophone Record C 18350 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: N/A Content: Կարս = Карсъ (танецъ) = Kars Dance Recorded by Edmund J. Pearse (= ae) in Tiflis, Georgia in February 1913. Notes The recording on the other side of this disc: Լէզգինկա Лезгинка . A sazandar (Armenian սազանդար) is an Armenian folk musician. A typical sazandari ensemble can be seen on this postcard . The typical instruments are all originally derived from Persia, the tar (a plucked, long-necked and waisted string instrument), the kamancheh (a bowed string instrument), and the daf (a large frame drum). Kars is a mountain city in Eastern Anatolia that between 1878 and 1918 temporarily belonged to Imperial Russia, which conquered the region in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Kars is home to a characteristic type of folk dance ( photo ).

Directors & creators

Sazandar Georg yev Gerasim

Subjects

78rpm, Ethnic, Armenian, Instrumental

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