AZERBAIJANI GITARA (vinyl)

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"THE LEGEND OF AZERBAIJANI GUITAR" - "ANOTHER INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY FROM THE BONGO JOE LABEL". PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR AND SYNTH-POP WITH BOLLYWOOD DISCO INFLUENCES. RÜSTAM QULIYEV IS CERTAINLY THE GREAT FIGURE OF GUITAR IN AZERBAIJAN, BUT HAS ABOVE ALL DEVELOPED A UNIQUE SOUND AND TECHNIQUES... A MUST-DISCOVER! Rüstam Quliyev was born in 1969 in the village of Kosalar, in Nagorno-Karabakh. By the age of seven, he had already mastered the tar before moving on to the saz. He first discovered the guitar during his military service in Russia for the USSR and quickly made a name for himself as a guitarist after returning to Azerbaijan. In the early 1990s, after years of intense fighting, he had to flee his home due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and settled in the capital Baku where his guitar playing blossomed. During this period, he recorded numerous cassettes with small local labels. Rüstam's guitar playing was not only inspired by the rich traditional sounds of Azerbaijan, but his thirst and passion for music also led him to incorporate styles from all over the world into his repertoire - from Bollywood disco tunes and Afghan pop songs to Iranian street melodies and Spanish flamenco. He created a unique sound within the already distinctive subculture of Azerbaijani electric guitar. Unfortunately, his career was brutally cut short in 2005 after a brief battle with lung cancer. However, his music remains very popular throughout the country even today.