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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
KvP:
In like 12 hours: Another metric tonne of music.
The Rube:
Here are a couple of recent discs featuring Tuvan throat-singing. For those who are unfamiliar, throat singing is a style of overtone singing, practiced by Mongolians, Tuvans and Tibetans (if you ever heard one of those super-deep Tibetan prayer chants, that's one kind). People who sing in this style produce high and low (and sometimes mid) pitches simultaneously. It's a very guttural sound, and ranges from a high whistle to a sub-sonic growl.
The flagship group for Tuvan folksong is Huun-Huur-Tu, and they've just released a disc called Ancestor's Call. They've made relatively few recordings in the past decade, and this is their first straight-up studio recording of traditional songs since 1999. It's a re-recording of their most well known songs by the current line up, and it's probably the best single album in their catalogue. You couldn't ask for a better introduction to this style of music.
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Yat Kha- Poets and Lighthouses
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If you've not heard of Yat Kha before- they're led by Albert Kuvezin, a specialist in the low-bass Kargyraa throat singing style. He was a founding member of Huun-Huur-Tu, but felt constrained by tradition- and so formed his own band, mixing Tuvan folk music with an often avant garde take on rock 'n' roll. You can get a pretty good sample of them on the youtubes: This album represents quite a change for the group, with the usual back up band gone and replaced by English folk musicians, and the lyrics largely being translations of Japanese poetry- it's quite a multicultural blend. Still, if you liked the band before, there's plenty for you here, Kuvezin is still clearly in charge of the music's vision. plus there's an improvised Kargyraa/Bagpipe duet that is one of the best bits of music I've heard in the young year.
TheFuriousWombat:
cool, thanks for this!
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: The Rube on 24 Jan 2011, 04:49 ---Here are a couple of recent discs featuring Tuvan throat-singing. For those who are unfamiliar, throat singing is a style of overtone singing, practiced by Mongolians, Tuvans and Tibetans (if you ever heard one of those super-deep Tibetan prayer chants, that's one kind). People who sing in this style produce high and low (and sometimes mid) pitches simultaneously. It's a very guttural sound, and ranges from a high whistle to a sub-sonic growl.
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Since I got into Hanggai, I've been trying to find more throat singing. Thanks!
KvP:
IIRC I think Hanggai might use a different type of throat singing. There are several styles, apparently.
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