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"While Huun-Huur-Tu are folkloric pioneers, bringing the traditional music of Tuva to a worldwide audience, the goal of throat-singing rock band Yat-Kha is decidedly more aggressive and revolutionary. Albert Kuvezin, the band's founder and leader, and a former member of Huun-Huur-Tu, sees the folk music of Tuva as a stepping-off point for his band, a point of contact with the heritage but also a point of contention with the power of static culture. Yat-Kha feature electric guitar (often fuzzy and distorted, to mimic the gruff, basso kargiraa vocals), in addition to local string and percussion instruments that offer a rooted sound to an often chaotic musical web. A few of the songs on Dalai Beldiri come off as just repolished folk-pop, imitation blues that rely too heavily on standard times and melodic structures. But most of the album shines, using the shamanic roots of the group's Siberian predecessors to forge ahead with new, innovative, and often disconcerting music that emphasizes the power of the human voice as much as the power of the electric guitar. This is a groundbreaking album for Tuva, one that pushes the boundaries without just making it accessible. In fact, this music is anything but easy. It's challenging and unusual."
"Why can Tuvan people not be long out of Tuva? Why do strangers who visit this land want to come back again? What does this ancient place have so attracting and so luring? Maybe from here, far from civilization and large noisy cities and main roads, it is possible to sense the breath of nature and history - to stop time and motion, looking on ancient mounds and majestic rocks to track the development of Earth and Human culture. Fathomless skies and endless valleys, sharp mountains and swift rivers, black-eyed beauties and frisky racehorses. Life and fight, love and death, freedom and independence... So is the world-outlooking subconscious of the Tuvan person and our songs on the new disk are about that. I hope it will help you understand the soul of the people, their music and to accomplish a journey through time and space.
Peace and Harmony to everybody."
01. Kaldak-Khamar
02. Khemchim
03. Dyngyldai
04. Opei Khoomei
05. Kazhan Toren Karam Bolur
06. Keergentchig
07. Charash Karaa
08. Ydyk Buura
09. Hondergei
10. Sodom i Gomora
Albert Kuvezin - yat-kha, guitars, bass, shanzi, khomuz and low kargiraa vocal
Aldyn-ool Sevek - morin-huur, igil and sygyt, khoomei, kargiraa vocal
Zhenya Tkachëv - tüngür, percussion, gongs and stikhi vocal
Special Guests:
Steve Goulding - drum-kit
Martyn Barker - kat-drum
Martijn Fernig - little bell
Lu Edmonds (aka Akym) - extra bass, cümbüsh, saz
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"Sons of the Ancient Tribes that rode with Genghis Khan, they sing of a way of life that makes your average rock n roll hellraiser look like a wuss. The sound is feral and all the more mind-boggling for the addition of surf-guitar licks, a conglomeration of ancient bowed string instruments and Fender Strat an otherworldly meeting of folk song and punk thrash that exhilarates, intrigues and makes just about every other music sound like so much product."
01. Intro
02. Ahoi
03. Radik’s Khoomei
04. Chorumal Bodum
05. Takh-Pakh
06. Dorug Daiym
07. Amby Baryp
08. Teve Khaya
09. Karangailyg Kara Khovaa
10. Khozamyk (Owaje-Ditty)
11. Kadarchy
Tracks 1,2,5,9 Recorded live in Abbeville, France at Espace Culture Saint Andre on the 10th of May 2001.
Track 3 recorded live in Viljandi, Estonia on the 27th of July 2001.
Track 4,7,11 recorded live ion Huy, Belgium on the 23rd of August 2001.
Track 6, 10 recorded live in Sete, france at La Passerelle on the 17th of May 2001.
Track 8 recorded live in Budapest at Sziget festival on the 7th of August 2001.
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"Think of Yat-Kha as the new wave of Tuvan throat singing, with its mystical, eerie overtones that seem unearthly. But to that sound, made popular by the likes of Huun-Huur Tu and traditional instruments like the tungur, they added electric guitar and, far more importantly, a sense of Western post-punk rock dynamics. The guitar features sparingly, used on "Solun Chaagai Sovet Churtum," "Karangailyg Kara Hovaa," and most effectively on "Kadarchy," where band leader Albert Kuvezin weaves a remarkably bluesy riff as the basis of the tune. But the sense that this band has listened to plenty of Western rock is there in their more traditional pieces -- which is most of the record. "Toorugutg Taiga," for example, has at least five things going on at once, with strings lines bowed and plucked, percussion, and voices working off each other in a stunning arrangement. For much of the time, the famed throat singing isn't really to the fore, concentrating more on the songs themselves, but on the epic closing "Kargyram," Kevezin unleashes an unaccompanied ten-minute tour de force of vocal overtone work that seems impossible, especially when the overtones take over, but it really, a display of rare virtuosity. Unlike most of their countrymen, Yat-Kha don't want to just keep the past alive; they want to integrate it into a musical future. That's their manifesto- laid out so eloquently here, and wonderful it is, too."
01-Solun Chaagai Sovet Churtum
02-Karangailyg Kara Hovaa (Dyngyldai)
03-Kaa-Khem
04-Kuu-La Khashtyn Baaryndan
05-Kamgalanyr Kuzhu-Daa Bar
06-Irik Chuduk
07-Chashpy-Khem
08-Kadarchy
09-Chok-La Kizhi Yry
10-Een Kurug Kagban-Na Men
11-Toorugtug Taiga
12-Kargyram
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"Yat-Kha’s unique sound revolves around the marriage of the traditional - 'khoomei' throat-singing, endemic to the group's native Tuva (the smallest and most remote republic in the Russian Federation), which allows the singer to hold more than one note simultaneously - to the modern - the (then-underground) rock and punk which inspired Albert to pick up his first electric guitar. Albert’s bone-shaking double-bass growl, coupled with his high harmonics, provide the foundation while the music is driven along by a mix of traditional instruments which contrast with Albert’s beloved electric guitar. 'Recovers' recorded late last year after the band suffered a number of disasters including stolen musical equipment, stolen passports and a car crash, Albert Kuvezin took time out to reflect on what started him on this journey in the first place, which led to the recording of this album paying tribute to the music which influenced the band. Here you can hear Joy Division, ! Led Zepplin, Captain Beefheart, Chieftains and others as you never have heard before, as Yat-Kha bring a new element to these songs."
01. When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin)
02. Man Machine (Kraftwerk)
03. Ramblin’ Man (Hank Williams)
04. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
05. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
06. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles (Captain Beefheart)
07. Song About A Giraffe (Vladimir Vysotskiy)
08. Orgasmatron (Motorhead)
09. Will You Go, Lassie, Go? (trad., from the McPeake Family)
10. Toccata (Paul Mauriat)
11. Black Magic Woman (Carlos Santana Version)
12. Exodus (Bob Marley)
13. Play With Fire (Rolling Stones)
14. Song Of Mergen (Alexei Tchyrgal-Ool)
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Yat-Kha come from Tuva, out on the borders of Siberia and western Mongolia. They dress like throw-backs to the hippy psychedelic era, and create some of the most extraordinary noises on the planet. Albert Kuvezin is an exponent of the local style of throat-singing, which allows the performer to hold more than one note at once while producing surely the deepest growls on record. He is also a guitarist who likes to switch between gentle acoustic passages and frantic electric solos, and he leads a band that also includes such traditional Tuvan stringed instruments as the Igil. The resulting songs are gloriously exhilarating, being at their best treating Tuva's gutsy traditional songs to the trademark blend of wild rhythm and growls. These range from exuberant growled rockers like Come Along to slow growled ballads, all with lyrics in English and sounding as if he is desperate to join the western pop mainstream.
01. Come Along / A.Kuvezin
02. Amby Baryp / trad.arr.A.Kuvezin-K.Mongush
03. Langchyy Boom / trad.arr. YAT-KHA
04. Carry Me Through / A.Kuvezin
05. Dorug Daiym / trad.arr. YAT-KHA
06. Coming Buddha / A.Kuvezin
07. Eki Attar / trad.arr. YAT-KHA
08. The Steppe, The City, The Sea / A.Kuvezin
09. Uzhur-La Bar / A.Kuvezin
10. Khandagaity / trad.arr. YAT-KHA
11. Voyager / A.Kuvezin
12. Teve-Khaia / trad.arr.A.Kuvezin
13. Tuva.Rock / A.Kuvezin
14. Amby Baryp (remix) / trad.arr.A.Kuvezin-K.Mongush
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Tuvan throat singing meets the electric guitar on the steppes and rocks!
"The voices are extraordinary, ranging from a melodic ox bellow called kargyraa to the "whistling" sygyt style that suggests a flying saucer revving its hyperdrive. But Aldyn Dashka improves on its predecessor, Dalai Beldiri, with songs as memorable as the throat singing within. When Albert Kuvezin croaks the tender nature tune "Chorumal Bodum" in a rock-bottom bass timbre that might make Bigfoot quake, he's handsomely framed by a two-stringed igil fiddle, throbbing electric guitar, and trotting bass. "Kozhamyk" contrasts Kuvezin's gravelly tones with Aldyn-ool Sevek's heroic operatic tenor that's as clear as a Siberian stream. Both are lifted by a vowel-packed chorus and wah-wah guitar figures that somehow fit right into a folkie song about the attributes of local womenfolk. Just a hint of dub piano complements the brew.
The third album from Yat-Kha finds them very much refining the process begun on their first two albums. The throat singing remains the central focus, but their way of framing it in a wondrous mix of modern and ancient instruments has become very subtle indeed, whether it's the reverse cymbals behind "Oy Adym" or the programming and textures of "Chedi Tei" and "Takh-Pakh Chaskhy Tan." As before, the guitar plays a very important part, played by bandleader Albert Kuvezin, giving a real jolt (along with Alexei Saaia's bass) to the acoustic lineup, and hurling it into another dimension, even though he doesn't use distortion or power chords.
01. Oy Adym (My Gray Horse)
02. Tozhu Kyzy (Tozhu Girl)
03. Chorumal Bodum (I am a Traveler)
04. Kozhamyk (Ditty)
05. Chedi Tei (Seven Hills)
06. Tyva Kyztar (Tuvan Girls)
07. Takh-Pakh Chaskhy Tan (Spring Breeze)
08. Bai-La Mongun (Rich Silver Mountain)
09. Oi Moroz (O Frost)
10. Sambazhyktyn-Yry (Song of Sambazhyk)
11. Khary Kyigy (The Call)
12. Aldyn Dashka (The Golden Cup)
Yat-Kha from Tuva:
Albert KUVEZIN – voice, guitar, yat-kha
Aldyn-ool SEVEK – voice, igil, morinhuur
Alexei SAAIA – morinhuur, bass, bvoice
Zhenya TKACHOV – kengyrgy, percussion, voice
Mikhail "Mahmoud" SKRIPALTSCHCHIKOV – bass
Sailyk OMMUN – yat-kha, voice
Radik TIULIUSH – vox, igil
Aias-ool DANZYRYN – voice, shanzi
Guests from London:
Martyn BARKER – snare-drum on "Kyigy"
Steve GOULDING – drum-kit on "Oy Adym"
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