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- Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes of Tuva
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: DTD-09
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 19 November 2007
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PRICE: £11.99
Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes of Tuva
With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in Tuvan music swept through Asia and Eastern Europe. Capitalizing on this appeal, these 16 recordings were issued in 1969 in the Soviet Union. Dust-to-Digital is proud to reissue for the first time on compact disc these traditional performances including several khoomei songs plus one modern take on the classic Tuvan sound.
In khoomei, the singer simultaneously produces two more distinct musical notes: a low, sustained bass note and a flute-like higher note. Tuvan sheep herders often practiced khoomei in an effort to calm animals and appease spirits. The effect is hypnotic, eerie, and drone-like, unlike any sound you've heard come out of a cowboy. The Republic of Tuva lies between Russia and Mongolia in the Altai Mountains, at the geographical center of Asia. Tuva is a land of mountains, lakes and rivers. Although the geographical area of Tuva is as large as the state of Florida, it has only 300,000 inhabitants. 24-page color booklet "A few seconds of listening to the unnerving, eerie tones of the Throat Singers of Tuva is all it takes to prove that, while technology makes the world seem small, some places are still indeed far away." New York Times "It is a sound once heard, never forgotten. A sound with the power to rearrange your mind and transform your life.
Track Listing
01. Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool "Reka Alash (Alash River)"
02. Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool "Bayan-kol"
03. Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool "Vse Ravno Khoomei ne Broshu (I Won't Give Up My Khoomei)"
04. Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool "Mansthurek"
05. Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool "Brat Moy, Spoyu Borban (My Brother, I'll Sing Borban)"
06. Kara-sal Ak-ool "U Miloy Sergi (My Beloved Girl's Earrings)"
07. Sat Mantsakay "Tuvinskiye Narodniye Napevy (Tuvan Folk Tunes)"
08. M. Dakpay "Pesnya Khomeyzhi (Song of Khoomeizhi)"
09. D. Damba-Darja and A. Laptan "Artyy Sayyr"
10. Kara-sal Ak-ool "Fantaziya na Tuvinskiye Narodnye Temy (Fantasy on Tuvan Folk Tunes)"
11. Kara-sal Ak-ool "Pesnya pro Igil (Song for Igil)"
12. Kara-sal Ak-ool "Tri starinnye melodii (Three Old Melodies)"
13. Kara-sal Ak-ool "Dembildey"
14. Kara-sal Ak-ool "Uzun-khoyug"
15. N. Olzey-ool "Tuvinskiy Naigrysh"
16. Kara-kys Munzuk "Na Letnye Pastbishtsha (On Summer Pastures)"
