http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From Urker on Calabash Music2008-08-28T11:11:42ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comThe Best of Urker - 10 Years Anniversaryhttp://urker.calabashmusic.com/#album_521462006-04-10T02:55:45ZMusic from The Best of Urker - 10 Years AnniversaryUrker means "The Pleades," and is now one of the country's best known and best loved pop folk bands in Kazakhstan. The songs, written by band members Aidos Sagat and Nourlan Alban, take their flavor from the epic poetry of Kazakhstan, whose themes are generally patriotic and adventurous. The album takes these themes, expressing love or nostalgia for the homeland, and the feats of the knights who defend it, and combines it with folkloric sounding melodies and traditional as well as modern instruments. The result is a wonderful and unselfconscious blending of the old and the new.]]>