Uqausit nuqqangatitaujut sikumut

 

(Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an Inuit throat singer from Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She first began to practice throat singing after attending school, and later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.

 

Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

 

Her innovative, solo style of throat singing seeks to push the boundaries of emotion and to express the primitive instincts she believes still reside deep within our flesh. She describes her evolution over the past six years as a process of going deeper and deeper into her performance to the point where she virtually “leaves her body” and lets the expression take over).

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(Phurpa is a Russian musical collective and performance group currently formed in by Alexey Tegin, Daniil Zotov and Dmitry Tarakanov, recording and playing authentic ritual music of Bon, the oldest Buddhist tradition from Tibet, using ritual instruments and special tantric singing technique.

 

Alexei Tegin, a founding member and leader of the group, started exploring and experimenting with traditional and ritual music in the middle of the 1990s, at a legendary Cardinal Art Factory (Фабрика Кардинального искусства) in Moscow, led by Vladimir Epifantsev, controversial actor, director and propagator of trash-culture. Of crucial importance was his introduction to the spiritual tradition of Bon and Dzogchen and his meeting with singing masters of Gyumay and Gyuto tantric colleges.

 

Phurpa project is named after Phurpa Drugse Chempa (phur pa 'brug gsas chem pa), one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition (this unique deity has a lower part of his body shaped in a form of phurpa, or kīla, three-edged peg/knife, widely used in tantric Buddhist rituals). Band members are constantly studying ancient Tibetan liturgical practices and ceremonies of Bon tradition, both theoretically and practically. 

 

Phurpa uses ritual Tibetan instruments to perform their music, which includes dungkar (horn made out of huge seashell), dungchen (three-metre-long horn/trumpet), silnuyen (flat cymbals), nga (double-sided drum), damaru (drum, made out of human skulls), kangling (human thighbone trumpet), shang (bon tambourine), rolmo (other type of cymbals), etc.

 

Queen Elephantine is a Doom/Drone Metal band formed in 2006 in Hong Kong (currently based in Philadelphia), formed by Indrayudh Shome, Samer Ghadry, Brett Zweiman, Nathanael Totushek, Ian Sims, Camden Healy, Floris Moerkamp and Buddy van Nieuwenhoven. Their sound is a nebulous worship of heavy mood and time - a pilgrimage through cosmic sludge. The shapeshifting post-apocalyptic rock band draws from psychedelia, doom, drone, and noise as well as free jazz and sacred music from around the world). 

 

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Chants from the cold desert

Songs to accompany the slow walk of nomads looking for sun.

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Eating the flesh of the defeated

Sounds from the steppes secret caverns of shamans.

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The winter travellers

Old ancestral songs still resounds in Tuvan desolate wastelands.

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Hymn To The Altai

Memories of the steppes we love...

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Growling possessed by ancestors

Flying together ancient souls of Nunavut.

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Walking on the Edge of Life (Repost)

This outstanding artist plays music on the border between East and West, past and present, anyway existing outside of categories. Her music is a combination between tuvan throatsinging, experimental jazz, classical, electronica, and Buddhism. She claims that music and spirituality are related by desire, or the tension that yells to reawaken people. Eager to take part in the process of remembering what has been forgotten, this album presents itself like a map, proposing routes to connect Western physicality with Eastern spirituality. Its seductive beats and wild vocals are sure to shock and inspire.

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Calling the Ancestors (Repost)

This album comes from the cold silent artic; the incredible (multi-tracked) voice alone is used as primary instrument for most of this work (which means "edge" in Inuktitut), and veers into experimental realms with call-and response grunts, buzzes, moans, and gasps, sometimes topped with melodic singing. Feel the frozen sounds of the ancient world.

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Releasing the wild horses on Europe

More tuvan stuff from the kings. A must!!!

Yat-Kha - Europe Live Bootleg

Riding on the Altair (Repost)

Not so much to say about, from the wonderful grasslands of Tuva, magnificent throat-warrior riders from the steppes and their lightning horses riding again.

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Tech Throats from the Steppes (Repost)

Albert Kuvezin, at the fore of Tuva's music scene and founding member of group Huun-Huur-Tu, started this band in 1991. Yat-Kha is named for the string instrument that it features. The band combines khoomii tuvan ultra-bass, polytonal throat-singing, high-tech, and homemade instruments in crafting their neo-traditional sound. Here's their debut album from early nineties.

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Messages from the Artic (Repost)

Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an Inuit throat singer from Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She first began to practice throat singing after attending school, and later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.

Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

Her innovative, solo style of throat singing seeks to push the boundaries of emotion and to express the primitive instincts she believes still reside deep within our flesh. She describes her evolution over the past six years as a process of going deeper and deeper into her performance to the point where she virtually “leaves her body” and lets the expression take over.

Definitively a must, pay attention at track 2, featuring Mr. Mike Patton at the scream-mic.

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A Call from the Grasslands (Repost)

The amazing band Huun Huur Tu comes from Tuva, a republic of the Russian Federation, a sparsely settled Siberian land of grasslands, boreal forests, and mountain ridges. Huun Huur Tu's music features native instruments and preserves and develops some of the world's oldest forms of music making. The best-known genre of Tuvan music is Xöömei (throat-singing) in which naturally produced overtone vocal sounds create astonishingly unique textures and harmonics.

The new album Eternal is a collaboration with electronic musician & record producer Carmen Rizzo, who transforms this ancient music into an enticing blend of ambient electronic, exotic rhythms and lush acoustic textures. This wonderful album takes you through a dream-like sequence featuring bowed ancient strings colliding with low-end keyboards while the haunting voices of Huun Huur Tu howl through the mesmerizing pulses. A musical journey for all looking to escape.

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East Meet West (Repost)

SEDAA, in persian means “voice“ and connect the traditional mongolian with the oriental music to a unusual yet fascinating whole. They enchant one with ancient instruments of the nomads and take you to a colourful world of moods and vibrations between the Orient and the Mongolian steppe.

Skilled in Ulan-Bator (the capital of Mongolia), the mastersingers Nasaa Nasanjargal and Naraa Naranbaatar who are known by the musical group Transmongolia, offer with their orchestral undertone singing and the Mongolian throat singing "Höömii" an exotic listening experience and create the sounds of nature. They accentuate their mystical singings with traditional stringed instruments such as the Morin khuur (horse head violin), originally made from the horse's body, and the Ikh khuur (horse head bass).

Born in Isfahan, the Iranian multi instrumentalist Omid Bahadori who established his reputation through the group Rangin, gives the ensemble its oriental touch. With drums and the guitar, he tops the sentimental musical melange off. Wild rhythmic pieces, like the trot of the horses and tender ballads carry the listener on a musical journey through the vastness of the steppe. With their Debut-Album “Mongolian meets Oriental” Sedaa created an own innovative sound experience from these ancient musical cultures.

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Throat Warriors (Repost)

As a gift to my dearest pretty Mata Kurii, here is the amazing record from Tuva-landers masters of throat Khoomei chants Huun-Hur-Tu; the most distinctive characteristic of the Huun-Huur-Tu's music is throat singing, in which the singers sing both the note (drone) and the drone's overtone(s), thus producing two or three notes simultaneously. The overtone may sound like a flute, whistle or bird, but is actually solely a product of the human voice.

The group primarily uses native Tuvan instruments such as the igil, khomus (Tuvan Jew's Harp), doshpuluur, and tungur (shaman drum). However, in recent years, the group has begun to selectively incorporate western instruments, such as the guitar. While the thrust of Huun-Huur-Tu's music is fundamentally indigenous Tuvan folk music, they also experiment with incorporating not only Western instruments, but electronic music as well.

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