The ancient Kazakh instrument is called a Kobyz. It only has two strings, but how amazingly atmospheric it is. It was the Russian Czar who forced young Kazakh men to enlist to protect his throne. The young man who wrote the lyrics laments not wanting to leave his elderly parents without help, not wanting to fight for Russian, and worrying that he may not live through the ordeal.
His performance from the 20th Tokyo Jazz festival in 2019 is one of the favorites of this song. Kazakh It's pronounced with a silent h so, phonetically, it is just kah-zahk
How I love that song! Thank you for reacting to it. 😊❤ And while this is not necessarily the best version, it’s still Dimash and therefore awesome! 🤩🔥🥰 The story is quite sad, but powerful at the same time, so you might want to turn on the subtitles, if you ever rewatch it.
Amo as músicas folclóricas Cazaque, os instrumentos e as letras. Essa fala de um jovem que foi requisitado pelo exército pra lutar uma guerra da qual ele nem fazia ideia, e ele teve que deixar a família e seus pais que eram velhos e nunca mais voltou pra para casa e nem viu mais a família! É uma história triste e muito sofrida! Dimash cantou com a alma e o coração! Simplesmente espetacular! ♥️♥️🇧🇷🇧🇷
Esta misma versión está hecha en estudio y es realmente maravillosa tendrías que buscarla Pero además tiene tantas canciones hermosas que te ponen la piel de gallina Por qué le entrega el alma en sus canciones no solo es la mejor voz del mundo sino el mejor profesional la técnica que utiliza es impecable
Beautiful yet haunting song! (Dimash says it’s difficult to sing - not vocally, but because of the emotional toll it takes.) Thanks for including the link to the original video in the description! If you go there, subtitles in 10 languages - including English - are available via the CC button. The video’s also much brighter (I presume you darkened it for copyright reasons?)
This is about one of the saddest parts of Kazakh history in the last century where young men were forcefully marched off to war to fight (without weapons) and leave their family & country behind - most did not return. The instrument is the Kobyz which is a traditional ancient Kazakh instrument - hauntingly beautiful when played well. Dimash has said that this Kazakh song is one that he finds most difficult to sing - I believe emotionally. Thanks for your reaction. Plymouth UK 🇬🇧
I have seen several versions of Samaltau from Dimash, never this one. Odd I don’t even recognize it. Check out Samaltau from Tokyo Jazz Festival performed during Covid from a studio.
The most views doesn't mean it's the best version😉. Samaltau is about a young Kazakh who was forcibly recruited by Russia in 1916. He was forced to leave his home country and his elderly parents to go to war (WWI) and does not know what awaits him there as a soldier or how his elderly parents are to manage without him. He was forced into a war that is not his. The best version in my opinion is from the Tokyo Jazz Festival. It’s pure emotion. Normally there are no vocal acrobatics in his native songs and I love them a lot. In every of this songs you can hear the great love and devotion to his country and his people. I love this song. This song is really special. Your guess with the wolf was right👍. You literally can hear the wind blowing, the storm and the howling of the wolf. Dimash sings this song so emotionally that you can almost sense the fears and worries this young soldier must have felt as he went off to a war that wasn't his. Greetings and love from Germany 👋❤️
@@nicevinci_dear i’ve been yelled at before for not choosing the one with the most views before, so I went with it haha. Thanks for watching, and for providing some background on the song.
@@Runningbaldman Thank you for reacting to this beautiful and powerful song. I hope you had the cc on. (Most everything on Dimash’s channel has subtitles available in different languages.) This version is actually my favorite by a whisker over the Tokyo Jazz Festival version. But there is really no wrong version when it comes to Dimash.
It’s written by an anonymous person who presumably died in the 1917 war when Russian drafted young men from all over its territories including Kazakhstan to fight Germany. He talks about leaving his homeland and his aging parents behind in Samaltau, dragging himself along with others for hundreds of miles, being barely in his early twenties, and not knowing whether he would live through this.
Kobitz is the kind of violin and the kazakh people see themselves, kind of spiritualy, sons of the gray wolf. This song is about kazakh young boy who is forced to go to war on behalf of Russia, his own invador. It is a lamentation about his destiny, if he is going ever to come back to his town Samaltau to take care of his old parents.
This might get the highest number of views but it's not the best, imo, try the 2 from his official site. Wolf is right, but not coyote, this is a Qazaq song, with Qazaq instruments, sung in Qazaq.
In 1916, during the second year of Great War (World War I), the Russian Empire carried huge human and property losses. The burden of restocking was laid on subject nations. About 49 million hectares of fertile land were forcibly taken away during the war from Kazakhs. The owners were driven out into the barren wastes. Taxes increased form 3 to 15 times. For the needs of war, livestock and property were mass requisitioned. And finally it came to "requisition" of people. On 24th of June 1916, the Russian Tsar issued a decree that a half-million Central Asians, aged 19-43, were to be mobilised for army and labour brigades in the war effort. This decree was the spark for the Kazakh uprising, although the underlying reason was Russian colonisation and the usurpation of Kazakh lands. The song is about young man, about 28 year old (a little over 2 mushels = 2 dozens born in the year of the cow = 1889) recruit walking from Samal village (close to Shalkar lake in West-North Kazakhstan) to Omsk, as he was forced to register for the Russian military according to a decree predating the revolt by a few months. He was walking for 15 days and almost reached Omsk.
Hi! I so believe the best version is Tokio Jazz Festival... but is always beautiful listen to Dimash
Gracias por reaccionar a nuestro querido Dimash!!!Saludos desde Argentina 👋👋🇦🇷
Una presentación epica gracias x tu reacción
Samaltau is one of my favorites. I really like the Tokyo Jazz Festival version. ❤🎉❤ Glad to find you!
2020 Tokyo Jazz Fest best performance of Samaltau. Please check it out.
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Si te gustan los gatos y te gusta Dimash, eres de los míos!
Suscrita...
🤗🥲🙏👏
The ancient Kazakh instrument is called a Kobyz. It only has two strings, but how amazingly atmospheric it is. It was the Russian Czar who forced young Kazakh men to enlist to protect his throne. The young man who wrote the lyrics laments not wanting to leave his elderly parents without help, not wanting to fight for Russian, and worrying that he may not live through the ordeal.
His performance from the 20th Tokyo Jazz festival in 2019 is one of the favorites of this song.
Kazakh It's pronounced with a silent h so, phonetically, it is just kah-zahk
Thank you!! I love Dimash and his performance of this song. He’s SO attached to Kazakh history, traditions, culture!
More Dimash please?
More Dimash!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤USA
How I love that song! Thank you for reacting to it. 😊❤
And while this is not necessarily the best version, it’s still Dimash and therefore awesome! 🤩🔥🥰
The story is quite sad, but powerful at the same time, so you might want to turn on the subtitles, if you ever rewatch it.
Amo as músicas folclóricas Cazaque, os instrumentos e as letras.
Essa fala de um jovem que foi requisitado pelo exército pra lutar uma guerra da qual ele nem fazia ideia, e ele teve que deixar a família e seus pais que eram velhos e nunca mais voltou pra para casa e nem viu mais a família!
É uma história triste e muito sofrida!
Dimash cantou com a alma e o coração!
Simplesmente espetacular!
♥️♥️🇧🇷🇧🇷
Esta misma versión está hecha en estudio y es realmente maravillosa tendrías que buscarla Pero además tiene tantas canciones hermosas que te ponen la piel de gallina Por qué le entrega el alma en sus canciones no solo es la mejor voz del mundo sino el mejor profesional la técnica que utiliza es impecable
beautiful!!!
Ese instrumento es un Kobiz instrumento Kazajo!
Beautiful yet haunting song! (Dimash says it’s difficult to sing - not vocally, but because of the emotional toll it takes.)
Thanks for including the link to the original video in the description! If you go there, subtitles in 10 languages - including English - are available via the CC button. The video’s also much brighter (I presume you darkened it for copyright reasons?)
This is about one of the saddest parts of Kazakh history in the last century where young men were forcefully marched off to war to fight (without weapons) and leave their family & country behind - most did not return. The instrument is the Kobyz which is a traditional ancient Kazakh instrument - hauntingly beautiful when played well. Dimash has said that this Kazakh song is one that he finds most difficult to sing - I believe emotionally.
Thanks for your reaction. Plymouth UK 🇬🇧
I have seen several versions of Samaltau from Dimash, never this one. Odd I don’t even recognize it. Check out Samaltau from Tokyo Jazz Festival performed during Covid from a studio.
Эта версия исполнена Димашем в Китае
The most views doesn't mean it's the best version😉.
Samaltau is about a young Kazakh who was forcibly recruited by Russia in 1916. He was forced to leave his home country and his elderly parents to go to war (WWI) and does not know what awaits him there as a soldier or how his elderly parents are to manage without him. He was forced into a war that is not his. The best version in my opinion is from the Tokyo Jazz Festival. It’s pure emotion.
Normally there are no vocal acrobatics in his native songs and I love them a lot. In every of this songs you can hear the great love and devotion to his country and his people.
I love this song. This song is really special. Your guess with the wolf was right👍. You literally can hear the wind blowing, the storm and the howling of the wolf. Dimash sings this song so emotionally that you can almost sense the fears and worries this young soldier must have felt as he went off to a war that wasn't his.
Greetings and love from Germany 👋❤️
@@nicevinci_dear i’ve been yelled at before for not choosing the one with the most views before, so I went with it haha. Thanks for watching, and for providing some background on the song.
❤👍
@@Runningbaldman The thing is that everyone will have their own preferred version. Just pick any, they are all good. 😊
@@Runningbaldman Thank you for reacting to this beautiful and powerful song. I hope you had the cc on. (Most everything on Dimash’s channel has subtitles available in different languages.) This version is actually my favorite by a whisker over the Tokyo Jazz Festival version. But there is really no wrong version when it comes to Dimash.
@@HaruNatsuAkiFuyu959 i prefer to listen without the captions so I don’t spend the entire song reading instead of listening.
It’s written by an anonymous person who presumably died in the 1917 war when Russian drafted young men from all over its territories including Kazakhstan to fight Germany. He talks about leaving his homeland and his aging parents behind in Samaltau, dragging himself along with others for hundreds of miles, being barely in his early twenties, and not knowing whether he would live through this.
Kobitz is the kind of violin and the kazakh people see themselves, kind of spiritualy, sons of the gray wolf. This song is about kazakh young boy who is forced to go to war on behalf of Russia, his own invador. It is a lamentation about his destiny, if he is going ever to come back to his town Samaltau to take care of his old parents.
This might get the highest number of views but it's not the best, imo, try the 2 from his official site.
Wolf is right, but not coyote, this is a Qazaq song, with Qazaq instruments, sung in Qazaq.
No descansas después de cog
In 1916, during the second year of Great War (World War I), the Russian Empire carried huge human and property losses. The burden of restocking was laid on subject nations. About 49 million hectares of fertile land were forcibly taken away during the war from Kazakhs. The owners were driven out into the barren wastes. Taxes increased form 3 to 15 times. For the needs of war, livestock and property were mass requisitioned. And finally it came to "requisition" of people. On 24th of June 1916, the Russian Tsar issued a decree that a half-million Central Asians, aged 19-43, were to be mobilised for army and labour brigades in the war effort. This decree was the spark for the Kazakh uprising, although the underlying reason was Russian colonisation and the usurpation of Kazakh lands.
The song is about young man, about 28 year old (a little over 2 mushels = 2 dozens born in the year of the cow = 1889) recruit walking from Samal village (close to Shalkar lake in West-North Kazakhstan) to Omsk, as he was forced to register for the Russian military according to a decree predating the revolt by a few months. He was walking for 15 days and almost reached Omsk.