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Important collection of recordings documenting and preserving "fringe" or under-represented folk cultures and voices from a unique region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. It spans a diverse cross-section of music by Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Chechens and many other ethnicities which fall outside their country's definition of national folk music - Azeris from Georgia, Kurds from Tbilisi, Avars and Lezgis from Azerbaijan, or Molokans in the South Caucasus - giving room for all of their myriad dialects and the rare timbres of their unique instruments without regard to the political borders that so often stifle them. The recordings were beautifully recorded by non-profit group, The Sayat Nova Project includes more than 50 musicians singing in ten different languages, taking in the breathtaking choral harmonies of the Pankisi Ensemble's 'Song In Chechen' and the aching melancholy of Miqayel Voskanyan's solo strings on 'Eshkhemet (Sayat Nova)' alongside rousing, percussive folk dance, unique non-traditional compositions and traditional wedding songs.