I'm sitting at my laptop, pricey headphones gripping my head and holding my ears prisoner... listening to Dimash sing. I fear I am going into another time vortex. (Lots of interdimensional travel in Dimashstan.)
When I listen to his 'Okay', I can actually hear soft breaths and whispers trailing into more wisps of sounds. SERIOUSLY. I even heard piano notes sliding into other notes, like drops of water gently flowing into a pool. I could only hear these with these pricey headphones. (I don't know what you call them but they have fat cushions, which I earlier thought was for the comfort of my ears but apparently not.). Dimash is actually layering sound upon sound.... creating this beautiful audio experience. Did I hear a xylophone??? Oh man....
While on the Internet, I found an article about the story behind 'Daididau' and it's the most 'complete' I've found so far. It makes for very interesting reading. Daididau : From Obscure Poem to Worldwide Hit https://medium.com/illumination/daididau-from-obscure-poem-to-worldwide-hit-b25e2ea74dd9 Excerpt : "A Silenced Poet It begins like a fairytale: Once upon a time there was a poet who was very much in love with his wife. Her name was Zuleikha Kurmanbaykizi, and his nickname for her was “Daididau.” Distant cousins and teenage sweethearts, they had been married off to other people by their parents, as was customary in their day. Only after they both became widowed at a young age were they able to build a life together. This young poet, Magzhan Zhumabayev, dearly loved his homeland. At the time of his birth in 1893, Kazakhstan was being ruled by the Russian Czar .... The Kazakh people, however, aspired to self-governance." In the article, the writer...
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