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Kazakh-British artistGalya Bisengalievareturns this October with her second studio album forOne Little Independent,Polygon.

Like Galyas 2020 debut albumAralkumthe composer, producer and musician returns to stories from her home country of Kazakhstan. While Aralkum was about the shrinking of the Aral Sea,Polygontells 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 Unions 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 countrys most famous literary figure Abai Quananbaiuly, not to mention an extraordinary ecology of mountains, hills and pine forests running along the river Irtysh.

Galyaa powerful force in new and primordial music –The Quietus

Tracklist:

1. Alash-kala
2. Saryzhal
3. Polygon
4. Sary-Uzen
5. Chagan
6. Balapan
7. Degelen