Xəzərin Sahilində () (en: On the Coastline of the Caspian Sea) (released like ''Hazar Sahilinde'') - was the first studio album by Azerbaijani rock band Yukhu. The album was released by Uzelli Muzik company in

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. The album was also the first ever

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origin musicians. Label company released a vinyl version of the album in

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Background

Yukhu ('' az'': ''Yuxu'') was formed by Ibrahim Eminov, Chingiz Eyvazov and Namig Nagdaliyev in 1987 in

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. Though, the band was formed in Azerbaijan, Xəzərin Sahilində was released in

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. The band had four songs in late of 80s, but these four songs were recorded first time as demo by

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in 1989. The first and only single by Yukhu is '' Xəzərin Sahilində'' what had been taken a music video for it in 1991 by Vahid Nakhishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyWgbgiKAo

Releasing the album

The band had planned to travel to

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for a festival, but they stayed in Turkey for an unknown reason and started to play their songs in local bars. During these times, Tevfik Yılmaz, who they met in 'Tual bar', suggested them to release a studio album. Meanwhile, the band's vocalist Jasur Nematov was in Moscow for completing his study. The members invited him to

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, and they recorded songs in Uzelli Müzik Studio, produced by Ismail Üzelli and their first ever studio album was released on 13 October 1993.

Lyrics and changes

All songs were written by band members, but two songs' lyrics (''Xəzərin Sahilində'' and ''Döngə'') were originally belonged to Eminov's father. Eminov changed some words later. ''Məni Sənsən Düşündürən'', ''Şər'', '' Xəzərin Sahilində'' and ''Üzəbüz'' were written until 1989 in Azerbaijan, rest of the album were written and composed in Turkey from 1991 to 1992. ''Məni Sənsən Düşündürəns name was changed during recording for the album. Previously, it was named as ''Ana'' (''en.'' Mother). The song was written for soldiers' mothers during First Nagorno-Karabakh War. The tenth song (''Döngə'') of the album was vocalized by band's bassist Ibrahim Eminov and the song's lyrics belonged to Eminov's father. Yukhu was very successful to use fluent Azerbaijani in their songs. They were mostly mentioning in their songs for injustice regime during

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, land occupation by Armenia during first Nagorno-Karabakh war, and about love. ''Eşit, ey Düşmən!'' ('' en.'' Hear hey Enemy!) was written directly to Armenian invasion. Intrumental song ''Papaq'' ('' en.'' Hat) was traditional folk music of Azerbaijan. It had been synthesised with

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Track list

Notes

External Links

Xəzərin Sahilində album on Uzelli.com

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References

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