This song, Tulpar Atim, is from Republic of Tatarstan, an autonomous nation in Russia. Sung by Aidar Galimov.

Very exotic nation with passion for horses. Tatar also called themselves Bulgar. Incidentally, Bulgaria in Eastern Europe was formed by their ancestors centuries ago.

And here’s another one performed by the popular Turkic music group, ULYTAU, from Kazakhstan . This group is hot across the Turkish speaking belt of Central Asia as well as Germany, Russia, Turkey and Columbia. The use of modern and traditional instruments together has made this group phenomenal.

See also this more traditional one below. The traditional string instrument is a similar one used by ULYTAU.

The tune in this song is akind with traditional songs in Malaysia to the mountains of Kirghizia and reaches Kashgar in China. Then the tune echos the Pamir plains to Caucasus mountains until it reaches Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Romania, Syria and down to Yemen. From here, it crosses the Red Sea to Egypt until it reaches Mauritania.

Here is the same instrument used in a high quality movie-like music video by Ulytau.

And this is a more interesting use of Kombuz aka Gambuz ( the string instrument ) in Kyrgystan.