Name: Polygon
Brand: Galya Bisengalieva

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TPLP1812

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5016958102937

Total Cap

Black LP

TPLP1812LTD

Blue

Dusk Coloured Vinyl.

Extended format: Yes

5016958103187

Blue LP

TPLP1812CD

5016958102944

Artist

Galya Bisengalieva

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

One Little Independent Records

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Like Galya’s 2020 debut album Aralkum the composer, producer and musician returns to stories from her home country of Kazakhstan. While Aralkum was about the shrinking of the Aral Sea, Polygon tells the tale of one of the darkest episodes in Kazakh history. Though it created more nuclear fallout than Chernobyl, the story of the Semipalatinsk Test Site located on the steppe in north east Kazakhstan (known as The Polygon) is little known internationally. It was the Soviet Union’s primary testing zone for nuclear weapons and they conducted 456 nuclear tests there from 1949 to 1989, with the vast landscape providing anonymity and isolation. Each track on the LP is named after features within The Polygon; villages, towns, natural features and other landmarks. To Soviet leaders it was “uninhabited” but in fact the steppe was the crucible of Kazakh culture, home to poets, musicians and the country’s most famous literary figure Abai Quananbaiuly, not to mention an extraordinary ecology of mountains, hills and pine forests running along the river Irtysh.

Polygon

Music GB

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