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If you don't know about Tuvan throat singing, and it's most famous band "Huun Huur Tu" make sure to read this little article and download all the songs!

"To an outsider, the most striking music in Tuva is that which the Tuvans call khoomei, from a Mongolian word that means ‘throat.’ Khoomei (sometimes transliterated as xöömij, xomei, or hoomi) is generally translated as ‘throat-singing,’ but Western musicians and researchers have also referred to the same phenomenon as overtone singing, biphonic and diphonic singing, and harmonic singing. The principal in all cases is the same: a single vocalist produces two, and occasionally three, distinct notes simultaneously. By precise movements of the lips, tongue, jaw, velum, and larynx, singers can selectively intensify vocally produced harmonics." (From the liner notes to Voices from the Center of Asia, Smithsonian Folkways)

Huun Huur Tu

The remote region of Tuva, one of the new countries formed with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., has produced one of the world's most unusual vocal groups, Huun-Huur-Tu. Masters of the throat singing style of xoomei, in which a vocalist produces two or three notes simultaneously, the group has been warmly by an international following. According to Jazz Times, "a rustic joyousness and unadulterated expresiveness come out of these musicians". Analyzing Huun-Huur-Tu's music, The Chicago Tribune, wrote, 'it is unfamiliar yet very accessible, an other-worldly but deeply spiritual music that is rooted in the sound of nature". More

Downloads:
MP3: Huun Huur Tu - Chiraa-Khoo
MP3: Huun Huur Tu - The Orphant's Lament
MP3: Huun Huur Tu - Odugen Taiga
MP3: Huun Huur Tu - Kongurei



  
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