Buulbuul

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Buulbuul is a collective formed by Haider & Kas, artists from Kazakhstan currently based in The Netherlands. This lyrics & sound collective is based on the poetic and musical concept called 'gül-u bulbul', which refers to the flower gardens and nightingales in the love poetry (ghazals) of the Persianate world, such as that of Hafez. Modern-day pop songs in Central Asia, despite using a contemporary Turkic vocabulary and sound, still borrow their musical and lyrical inspirations from those traditions, which began before Russo-Ottoman attempts to erase their Persianate influences. By further fleshing out these concepts in an experimental way, both lyrically and sonically, Haider & Kas also focus on the homoerotic aspect of those ghazals.