FULL VIDEO: Dimash - Samaltau
Added 2025-04-06 17:00:08 +0000 UTCHere's the full video of my reaction to Dimash's recent poll winner, Samaltau.
This also includes the Digital Show performance from 2021 ⚡️
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Digital Show version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQbmB6KXME
Comments
Thank you for this information and the links as well!
Elise
2025-04-09 10:49:11 +0000 UTCI came back here to rewatch your great analysis on these two beautiful performances by Dimash and, as I promised in my YT comment, to share some of my thoughts, feelings, etc about it. Also, I want to say again *thank you very much* for this video!🙏😊🙏 Samaltau is one of those folk songs performed by Dimash that affects me deeply every time I listen to it... it’s magically touching with a fine balance between gentle and powerful sounds (from both the instruments and Dimash’s vocals), which feels very fitting to deliver such meaningful message (I love both performances you analyzed but I personally think the first one offers a more authentic experience when considering the atmosphere of the song)🎶I greatly admire Dimash not only for his outstanding vocal prowess, but also for his lovely musical approach that incites us to learn more about cultures from afar, such as his Kazakh heritage, thus, helping us to develop a richer cultural baggage and bigger empathy towards different groups of people inhabiting this crazy world… I see music as one of the most effective tools to offer an immersive experience into different realities/cultures, and Dimash uses this influence very wisely and with a lot of responsibility, which is something I see almost as a magically wonderful power. You, Sir Hairless, also have that kind of magic in you ;) Now, about the rainstick🌧: the first time I’ve watched this video I got really surprised to see a rainstick featuring among the other traditional Kazakh instruments because, until then, I thought it was something ‘endemic’ to the Americas, with a potential origin center somewhere in Chile... However, this video allowed me to discover that variations of rainstick apparently appeared independently throughout history in other continents/cultures in a comparable way (based on my speculative mind) to what happens during the biological process of ‘convergent evolution’ that encompasses the independent emergence of similar/analogous structures (that have similar form and/or function) in different species from diverse periods/epochs and do not share a recent direct common ancestor (for example, the ability to flight emerged independently in many unrelated species of insects, birds, bats, etc). So, in my rambling mind I see something really fascinating about the supposed emergence of a similar musical instrument independently in many different and somewhat isolated (at the time) cultures…🤓 Here in Brazil, we call this instrument ‘pau de chuva’ and most children in elementary school create a simple version of it when learning about important cultural elements inherited from the indigenous inhabitants of this land that is currently labeled as ‘Brazil’ (usually as part of the celebration of Indigenous People’s Day observed annually on April 19). In our version of rainstick, an assorted sample of seeds is usually used as the main moving elements inside the hollow stick. And if you get curious to see how similar our rainstick is compared to the one used in the first performance by Dimash, I’ll leave the following short video that shows the general appearance and sound of the most common type in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jvIpuPdI6cc, and you can also see another variation made with hollow wood at the begging of the following video that presents few of the most common indigenous instruments of percussion found in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYKNaL7ZWfM
Maria
2025-04-08 22:37:54 +0000 UTCI so glad you got to Salmatau 😊. I know we have hounded you for a year and a half to do it lol
Steph
2025-04-08 21:27:08 +0000 UTC
