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Music From Tuva
Reviewers:
- [AS] Alan Shrives
- [KY] Kerry Yackoboski
- [OC] Oliver Corff
- [BG] Bernard Greenberg
- [JN] Jarkko Niemi
- Tuva - Voices From The Center Of Asia (41:50)
NUM: CD SF 40017
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
COMMENT: Distributed by Rounder Records, Cambridge MA. Numerous performers recorded in
Tuva by Ted Levin, Eduard Alexeev, Zoya Kirgiz. Khoomei, jew's harp, sigit, animal
imitations. Excellent, scholarly, musicological liner notes, texts in Tuvan available.
[KY]
PERFORMERS: Fedor Tau, Mergen Mongush, Anatoli Kuular, Sundukai Mongush, Tumat Kara-ool,
Andrei Chuldum-ool, Chiraa-Bazhi, Anchimaa Sonat, Anchimaa Khert, Achyimaa Targin,
Chandanmaa Torten-ool, Mikhail Dopchun, Marzhimal Ondar, Oleg Kuular, Ensemble Amirak,
Gennadi Chash, Evgenii Oyun, Vasili Chazir, Vasilii Khuurak, Shozhul Salchak, Polina
Ore-ool, Doluma Lopsanchap, Dhuren Oorzhak, Shimet Soyan, Alexander Davakai, Tatyana Sat,
Balgan Kuzhuget, Bilchit-Maa Davaa, Kok-ool Khovalyg, Soskur-ool Mongush, Dosumaa Mongush,
Valentina Kuular, Raisa Mongush, Lenmaa Kuular, Soskul Mongush, Kazak Sandak
TRACKS: 33
- Steppe Kargiraa
- Sigit
- Sigit Alash
- Sigit with Igil
- Khoomei
- Khoomei
- Tespeng Khoomei
- Kozhamik (medley) with khoomei, sigit, kargiraa
- Kargiraa duet ``Artii-Sayir''
- Khomuz melodies played by a trio of khomuz players
- Borbannadir
- Borbannadir
- Borbannadir with finger strokes across lips
- Borbannadir
- Ezengileer
- Sigit with khomuz
- Medley of different throat singing styles
- Kargiraa ``Artii-Sayir''
- Melody on the amirge (hunting horn): luring of the stag
- a) Imitation of the roe deer
b) Imitation of the musk deer
c) Imitation of the reindeer
d) Imitation of the owl
e) Imitation of the wolf's howl
f) Appeal to the patron of hunters before the bear hunt
g) Reindeer herder's calls to the reindeer
- Domestication of sheep to lamb
- Domestication of goat to kid
- Domestication of cow to calf
- Domestication of camel to calf
- Excerpt from shamnic healing ritual
- Funeral lament
- Lullaby
- Wooden jew's harp
- Lullaby with khoomei
- Long song: ``Don't Frighten the Crane''
- Long song: ``When I Graze My Beautiful Sheep''
- Kozhamiktar
- Ceremonial song: ``Hymn to the Mountains''
- Tuva - Voices from the Land of the Eagles (46:46)
NUM: 2005, 1991.
LABEL: Pan Records
COMMENT: Khomus, tyzani, igil, amirga, toshpular. Recorded February 23, 1991. Excellent
liner notes. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Kongar-ool Ondar, Kaigal-ool Khovalig, Gennadi Tumat.
TRACKS: 11
- Igilding Iizi
- Toruktug Dolgai Tangdim
- Tying Siirtuktiilerining Iri
- Bayan Dugai Koshkarliimni
- Khomushka
- Ches Bulungum
- Sigit, Kargiraa, and Khoomei
- Kargiraa-style Song
- Khomus
- Iiskistiing Iri
- Tuva Kozhangnar
- Tuva Ensemble - Echoes from the Spirit World (61:38)
NUM: CD 2013 CD, 1992.
LABEL: Pan Records.
COMMENT: Includes recordings made on tour in 1992 as well as older recordings from Soviet
radio (1973, 1983, 1986). Superlative liner notes.
PERFORMERS: Gennadi Tumat, Kongar-ool Ondar, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Anatolii Kuular
Dambu-Dovzhu Sat, Stanislav Danmaa, Sergei Ondar, Ivan Saryglar, Boris Kherlii, Radomir
Mongush, Maryam Sat
TRACKS: 17
- Welcome (0:42)
- Ogbeler (15:12)
- Ondar Kombunung khoomeileer
Sat Manchakainyng sygydy
Kyrgys Soruktunung kargyraay
Kara-Sal Ak-ooldung khoomei sygydy
Sanchy Kyzyk-ooldung khoomei sygydy
Bisting Tuva
- Kadararda Khoyum Charash (2:42)
- Dadyr-Dodur (0:46)
- Kham Algyzhy (3:11)
- Avtyng Algyzhy (3:36)
- Morgul (4:20)
- Sygyt #1 (3:42)
- Toruktug Dolgai Tangdym (3:29)
- Oorzhak Khun Ashtaar-ool Bile Maksim Daglainyng Khoomei Sygydy (3:05)
- Ugbazhkylar Ooldary (5:21)
- Ulug-Khemim, Sayan, Tangdym (1:53)
- Aratyng Yry (3:56)
- Sygyt #2 (2:34)
- Sygyt #3 (1:39)
- Potpourri Of Steppe Melodies (4:04)
- Teve Khaya (1:01)
- Tuvinian Singers & Musicians - Ch"oomej: Throat-Singing from the Center of
Asia
NUM: 55838, 1993.
LABEL: WORLD NETWORK vol 21.
COMMENT: This CD can be warmly recommended to all lovers of Tuvinian music. The music
presented is a well performed collection of authentic vocal and instrumental pieces. Since
all pieces are strictly traditional this CD cannot be compared to the performance by e.g.,
Sainkho. Track number 9, performed by the unusually young artist Schaktar Schulban,
reveals the enormous talent of this promising singer. The CD is very interesting because
next to the overview of singing styles the listener is also introduced to a representative
spectrum of instrumental music. [OC]
PERFORMERS: Gennadi Tumat, German Kuular, Oleg Kuular, Schaktar Schulban (10 years old),
Ondar Mongun-Ool, Bujan Dondak, Idamchap Chomushgu, "Opej Andrej, Alexander Saltschak
TRACKS: 16
- Sygyt - Ch"oomej - Kargyraa - Gennadi Tumat
- Ugbashkylar Ooldary - Tuva-Ensemble
- Chomushgu Ayalgalar - German Kuular
- "Ogbeler - Tuva-Ensemble
- Sygyt - Borbangnadyr - Oleg Kuular
- Collection of Ch"oomej styles - Oleg Kuular
- Chomus and Ch"oomej - Oleg Kuular
- Ching S"oortukchulerining Yry - Tuva-Ensemble
- Sygyt - Kargyraa - Schaktar Schulban
- Sygyt - Ondar Mongun-Ool
- Kargyraa - Bujan Dondak
- Adym - Tuva-Ensemble
- Chomushgu Ayalgalar - Idamchap Chomushgu
- Tschasky-Chem Yry - "Opej Andrej & Tschetschek
- Cham Algyshy - Alexander Saltschak
- Sygyt - Kargyraa - "Opej Andrej
- Ozum (Sprouts) - Young Voices of Ancient Tuva (42:34)
NUM: CD sum 90 008.
LABEL: Window to Europe
COMMENT: A Dutch-Russian release. Three young Tuvan musicians who have built on the
traditional style. A strong album that I really like. Khoomei, khomus, acoustic guitar,
and shaman drum. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Otkun Dostai, Oolak Ondar, Stanislav Iril
TRACKS: 13
- Introduction - Dostai, Iril
- Khoomei - Dostai
- Evolution of Khomus - Dostai
- a) daya-khomus
b) charti-khomus
c) demir-khomus
- Sygyt - Ondar
- Story of an Old Bull - Dostai
- Kargiraa - Iril
- Kham of a Shaman (Interpretation for Stage) - Dostai
- Sygyt - Ondar
- Khoomei - Dostai
- Borbannadyr (River Khoomei) - Dostai
- Sygyt - Ondar
- A Song of Orphans - Dostai, Iril
- Otkun, Khomus and Tuvan Tunes - Dostai
- Huun-Huur-Tu - Sixty Horses In My Herd - Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva
NUM: D SH 64050 CD/MC
LABEL: Shanachie Records
COMMENT: Master khoomigch Kaigal-ool Khovalyg and his new group, which has toured all over
the US. Top-notch khoomei, other singing, igil (Tuvan viol) playing. Its being
studio-produced, which although lending a slight inauthenticity, makes for an eminently
listenable album. Decent liner notes and text. [BG]
PERFORMERS: Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Sayan Bapa, Sasha Bapa, Albert Kuvezin.
TRACKS: 12
- Sygyt: Lament of the Igil
- Mezhegei
- Oske Chere (``Foreign Land'')
- Eshten Charlyyry Berge (``It's hard to be parted from a friend'')
- Kombu
- Khoomei
- Kongurei
- Fantasy on the Igil
- Bayan Dugai
- Tuvan Internationale
- Kargyraa
- Ching Soortukchulerining YrYzy
- Huun-Huur-Tu - The Orphan's Lament
NUM: 64058 CD
LABEL: Shanachie Records
COMMENT: A work of well-produced art, contemporary offerings in traditional Tuvan styles,
not an ethnomusicological assay. Its 16 pieces in styles varying from unison Kargyraa
chants to political songs to khomus ("Jews' harp") solos provide a tour-de-force
of Tuvan styles designed for listening pleasure and wonderment. Master khoomigch
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg's deeply touching igil (Tuvan viol) playing is (as on "60
Horses") a real highlight of the album. His frequent vocal solos in all styles, and
those of the sweet-voiced Anatoli Kuular, joined by Mergen Mongush for one sygyt cut, help
place this album among the two or three "must-have"'s for anyone who *enjoys*
authentic Tuvan music. [BSG]
PERFORMERS: Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Sayan Bapa, Sasha Bapa, Anatoli Kuular, with Mergen
Mongush on Track 13.
TRACKS: 16
- Prayer
- Ancestors
- Aa-shuu Dekei-oo
- Eerbek-Aksy
- The Orphan's Lament
- Kaldak Khamar
- Steppe
- Borbanngadyr
- Chiraa-Khoor (``The Yellow Trotter'')
- Exile's Song
- Eki Attar
- Irik Chuduk (``The Rotting Log'')
- Sygyt
- Agitator
- Khomuz Medley
- Odugen Taiga
- Tales of Tuva.
COMMENT: Kira Van Deusen recites three Tuvan stories (in English) with musical
accompaniment. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Kongar-ool Ondar, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Anatoli Kuular.
- Shu-De - Voices from the Distant Steppe (49:45)
NUM: CDRW41 (Carol 2339-2), 1994.
LABEL: Real World Records
COMMENT: Including all varieties of khoomei, igil, doshpuluur, & limbi (flute)
playing, plus a wide variety of styles from Buddhist Chant to Tuvan tonguetwisters to
Western-style choral harmony. A shamanic ritual ends out the CD. A magnificent kargyraa
cut by Leonid Oorzhak is a highlight. Eminently listenable. Weak liner notes. [BG]
PERFORMERS: M. Mongush, Leonid Oorzhak, N. Shoigu, Boris Salchak, Oleg Kuular
TRACKS: 16
- Sygyt, khoomei, kargyraa (styles of throat singing)
- Aian Dudal (songs of devotion and praise)
- Beezhinden (Coming back from Beijing)
- Buura
- Durgen Chugaa (Tongue twisters)
- Throat singing and Igil (Untitled)
- Yraazhy Kys (The Singing Girl)
- Shyngyr-Shyngyr
- Baian-Dudai
- Khomus Solo (Jew's harp solo)
- Meen Khemchim (My Khemchik River)
- Opei Yry (A lullaby)
- Tyva-Urianskchai
- Chashpy-Khem (The River Chashpy)
- Kadarchynyng Yry (The Nomad Song)
- Kham (Shaman Ritual)
- Tuva - Pesni I Instrumentalnie Melodii Tuvi
NUM: D030773-74, 1969
LABEL: Melodiya
COMMENT: LP is o longer available. LP recorded by Vyacheslav Shchurov.
Released on CD by Dust to Digital in 2007. The CD is out-of-print but
available through sites like ebay but the digital download is still available
on the website
http://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/melodii-tuvi-throat-songs-and-folk-tunes-from-tuva
TRACKS: 16
Side 1
- Alash River - sygyt - Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool
- Bayan-Kol - sygyt - Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool
- I Won't Give Up My Khoomei - Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool
- Manchurek - khoomei - Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool
- My Brother, I'll Sing Borban - borbannadyr - Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool
- My Beloved Girl's Ear-Rings - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Tuvan Folk Tunes - Manohakay Sat
- Song of Khoomeizhi - M. Dakpay
- Artyy Saiyr - kargyraa - D. Damba-Darzhaa, A Lapman
Side 2
- Fantasia on Tuvan Folk Songs - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Song about the Igil - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Three Old Melodies - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Dembildey - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Uzyn-khoyug - Kara-Sal Ak-ool
- Temir-khomus - N. Olzey-ool
- To Summer Pastures - Kara-kyz Munzuk
- Tuva - Tuvinski Folklore
NUM: C60-14937-42, 1981
LABEL: Melodiya
COMMENT: No longer available, 3 LP set. Mostly khoomei and instrumental. One entire disk
(both sides) is devoted to two tracks, each over 24 minutes long, of byzanchi playing.
There are also several tracks of story telling, and a few of the musical numbers are
repeated with variations or in slightly different styles. [KY]
TRACKS: 65
- Uzlyau - Gutteral Singing From The Sayan, Altai And Ural Mountains (62:01)
NUM: PAN 2019CD
LABEL: Pan Records
COMMENT: Recordings from Russian archives form a catalog of all known styles of overtone
singing collected, produced, (partially) recorded, and documented in encyclopaedic,
scholarly liner notes by Vyacheslav Shchurov. Studio and field recordings, featuring
master khoomigch Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool in some awesome 1977 performances recored by
Radio Moscow. Some doshpuluur and khomus, but almost all vocal. Some absolute knockout
kargyraa. A must. [BG]
PERFORMERS: Boris Mongush, Sergei Kuular, Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool, Sevec Aldyn-ool, Ayas
Ondar, Gennadi Tumat, I.Shinzhin, Aleksey Kalkin, Mansur Uzanbayev, Bibizada Suleymanova,
Hasan Akhetshin, Abdulla Sultanov, Azat Aitkulov,
TRACKS: 37
Tuva
- Sygyt #1 - 1:39 (Boris Mongush)
- Sygyt #2 - 1:19 (Sergei Kuular)
- Manchurek Khem #1 - 1:23 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- Manchurek Khem #2 - 1:32 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- Bolur-Daa Bol, Bolbas-Daa Bol - 1:10 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- Alash-Um - 2:06 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- I won't Stop Singing Kargyraa #1 - 1:24 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- I won't Stop Singing Kargyraa #2 - 1:17 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- Kargyraa - 1:55 (Sevec Aldyn-ool)
- Eder-Daa Bol, Etpes-Daa Bol - 1:02 (Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool)
- Sygyt And Borbangnadyr - 2:07 (Ayas Ondar)
- Sygyt And Kargyraa - 3:44 (Gennadi Tumat)
Altai
- Akhtaichi - 1:27 (I.Shinzhin)
- Maaday Kara - 4:37 (Aleksey Kalkin)
Bashkiria
- Uzlyau - Free Style - 1:29 (Mansur Uzanbayev)
- Uzlyau - Slow Form #1 - 1:08 (Mansur Uzanbayev)
- Uzlyau - Slow Form #2 - 1:13 (Mansur Uzanbayev)
- Uzlyau - Dance #1 - 1:25 (Mansur Uzanbayev)
- Uzlyau - Dance #2 - 1:09 (Mansur Uzanbayev)
- Village Melody - Uzlyau - 3:53 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Village Melody - Normal - 0:37 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Tevkelyev - Uzlyau - 2:22 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Tevkelyev - Normal - 0:48 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Gaysa Akhun - Uzlyau - 1:48 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Gaysa Akhun - Normal - 0:39 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Karabay - Uzlyau - 1:52 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Karabay - Normal - 0:33 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Tatar Song - Uzlyau - 0:33 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Tatar Song - Normal - 0:51 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Tatar Song - Kubyz - 2:14 (Bibizada Suleymanova)
- Kara Yurga #1 - 1:37 (Hasan Akhetshin)
- Kara Yurga #2 - 0:20 (Hasan Akhetshin)
- Artilish - 2:28 (Hasan Akhetshin)
- Aksak Kola - 1:59 (Hasan Akhetshin)
- Ugezakov - 1:10 (Abdulla Sultanov)
- Peshiy Makhmut - 2:13 (Azat Aitkulov)
- Soldier's March - 1:44 (Azat Aitkulov)
- Sainkho Namtchylak - Lost Rivers (74:18)
NUM: FMP CD 42
LABEL: Free Music Productions
COMMENT: Solo voice. Avante garde singing, with some polyphonic singing. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Sainkho Namtchylak
TRACKS: 13
- Night Birds
- Early Steps
- Cschai-Su
- Tovarishi
- Houwa
- White Food
- Memory I
- Dream of Death
- Ach So (dedicated to women)
- Lost Rivers
- Tundra Und Taiga
- Long Continuum
- Memory II
- Sainkho Namtchylak - When the Sun Is Out You Don't See Stars (72:50)
NUM: FMP CD 38
LABEL: Free Music Productions
COMMENT: Less avante garde than Lost Rivers. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Sainkho Namtchylak, Peter Kowald (bass), Werner Ludi (saxes), Butch Morris
(cornet).
TRACKS: 20
- Dance of the Invisibles
- Paris Bar
- A Thousand Years Et Cetera
- Bursting Bubbles
- Sacred Places
- Overcome Babylon
- Wind Talking
- Happysad
- Bold As Gold
- Killer Planets
- Dawn in Tuva
- Yes Yes The Anarchy
- A Little World Music
- Long Trust and These Jokes
- Dark Side of White
- The Art of Falling Apart
- Burning Spirits
- Pretty Ugly
- House of Trouble
- No Longer Down Under
- Sainkho Namtchylak - Out Of Tuva (40:30)
NUM: CRAW 6
LABEL: Crammed Discs
COMMENT: A collection of mostly traditional songs, some arranged in a new context.
TRACKS: 13
- Tanola Nomads (5:53)
- Tchashpy-Hem (2:03)
- Aldan Hoynung (1:58)
- Bai-laa Taigam (3:08)
- Fate (4:58)
- Lullaby For Lambs (4:25)
- Kolkhozchu-man (1:34)
- Ritual Song (4:05)
- Seyd Ozero (1:18)
- Haragannig (2:55)
- Chahgaa (2:38)
- Hymn (1:57)
- My Tuva (3:05)
- Sainkho Namtchylak - Letters
NUM: CD 190
LABEL: Leo
COMMENT: Unreviewed.
- Yat-Kha (57:22)
NUM: GR 90-202, 1993
LABEL: General Records (Moscow)
COMMENT: This CD is Albert's experiment with techno. Kuvezin is a founding member of the
group Huun-Huur-Tu, living in Moscow, who specializes in his own style of kargyraa,
extremely low-pitched singing with artificial subharmonics. In this hour of 13 tracks, he
exploits this awesome and rarely-heard technique, combining it with techno-pop backup
sounds (and a token amount of traditional singing/playing) to produce a thoroughly unique,
avant-garde offering which has the power to grow on you. Deliberately obscure liner notes
[BSG].
PERFORMERS: Albert Kuvezin (throat-singing and instruments yat-kha, byzanchi, organs,
homus, percussion & gongs) and Ivan Sokolovski (keyboards, computers, cello, drums
& percussions, noises).
TRACKS: 13
- Albys-shulbus (Calling of Spirits)
- Antropofagy
- Spring Hunting on Sable
- Halyrkan (Mounting Spirit-Hider)
- Shaman
- Shambalyg (Old Shaman's Song)
- Heart of Asia
- Mejegei Valley
- Chaa-Hol (New Lake)
- Argym Sarym (Tuvan Love Song)
- Burial
- Samdam (Tramp)
- Teve-haya
- Voix de l'Orient Sovietique
NUM: W 260008
LABEL: Maison des Cultures Du Monde
COMMENT: Only one khoomei track, but a very interesting collection. Other tracks from
other Soviet (now CIS) central Asian republics.
- Kronos Quartet - Night Prayers (78:51)
NUM: CD 2 79346, 1994.
LABEL: Elektra Nonesuch
COMMENT: Distributed by Warner Music. One track on this CD, "Kongerei", features
khoomei singing to the accompaniment of the Quartet (2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello). This
new version is interesting in it's approach to a traditional Tuvan song with modern
Western instruments. [KY]
PERFORMERS: Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Anatoly Kuular, Kongar-ool Ondar, with the Kronos Quartet
(David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Joan Jeanrenaud)
TRACKS: 7
- Disappearing World (76:54)
NUM: CD-SDL 376
LABEL: Saydisc Records
COMMENT: Music of 17 endangered cultures recorded by Granada Television for the
Disappearing World TV series. Some of the recordings are outstanding, including the Tuvan
songs. The Tuvan program was: "The Herders of Mongun-Taiga" transmitted June,
1989. The liner notes let this disc down badly. There is little information about the
performers, or when and where they were recorded. See also Mongolian list. [AS]
TRACKS: 17
- 17) The Tuvinians (7:04)
a) Kargyraa
b) Sygyt
c) Sygyt & igil
d) Sygyt & tovshuur
e) Sygyt & female duulakh & igil
- Tuva ayalgalar (Tuvan melodies)
NUM: D-030773-4
LABEL: Melodiya
- Tuvinskiye pesni i instrumentalnie naigrishi
(Tuvan songs and instrumental pieces)
NUM: D-03639-70 (1970)
LABEL: Melodiya
- Huun-Huur-Tu and Angelite: Fly, Fly My Sadness
NUM: 4197-2
LABEL: JARO
(Angelite was formerly called Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares), This CD is definitely meditative stuff ---
not quite my style, but certainly an interesting mixture of distinctive musical traditions. [RL]
- The Bulgarian Voices ANGELITE & the Moscow Art Trio with Huun-Huur-Tu:
Mountain Tale
NUM: 4212-2
LABEL: JARO
- Huun-Huur-Tu: Where Young Grass Grows
NUM: CD 66018
LABEL: Shanachie Records CD
15 tracks, 45'05. No review available yet. Tracklist: 1
Ezir-Kara 2 Anatoly On Horseback 3 Deke-Jo 4 Xöömeyimny Kagbasla Men (I will
not abandon my xöömei) 5 Avam Churtu Dugayimny (Dugai, the land of my mother) 6 Dyngyldai 7
Highland Tune 8 Hayang (name of a hunter) 9 Barlyk River 10 Tarlaashkyn 11 Interlude: Sayan playing khomus with
water in his mouth 12 Sarala 13 Sagla Khadyn Turula Boor (It's probably windy on Sagly steppe) 14 Ezertep-Le Bereyin Be (Do you
want me to saddle you?) 15 Live Recording: Anatoly and Kaigal-ool riding horses in Eleges while singing sygyt (Anatoly), kargyraa and
xöömei (Kaigal-ool)
- Huun-Huur-Tu: If I'd Been Born An Eagle
LABEL: Shanachie Records
"If I'd Been Born An Eagle" explores a possible past with the addition of
an end-blown flute, an instrument of other Turkic mountain peoples, which may once have been played in Tuva. Once you hear it along with
the other Tuvan instruments, you'll wonder why the Tuvans ever gave it up! This CD is a worthy addition to the other two by
HHT. [RL]
ADDRESSES OF SOME RECORD LABELS
- Buda, 188, db Voltaire, 75011 Paris, France.
- Crammed Discs, 43 Rue General Patton, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
- Free Music Productions, Postbox 100 227, 1000 Berlin 10, Germany
- King Records, 12-13, 2-Chome, Otowa, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 112, Japan.
- Maison Des Cultures Du Monde, 101 Bd Raspail, 75006, Paris, France.
- Pan Records, P.O. Box 155, 2300 AD Leiden, Netherlands.
- Playa Sound, Sunset-France, 66 Rue De L'Est, 92100, Boulogne, France.
- Real World Records, WOMAD, Box, Wiltshire, SN14 9PN, UK.
- Saydisc Records, Chipping Manor, The Chipping, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 7AD, UK.
- Shanachie Records, 37 E. Clinton St., Newton NJ 40017, USA
- Smithsonian Folkways, Office Of Folklife Programs, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, Suite
2600, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
- Topic Records, 50 Stroud Green Road, London, N4 3EF, UK.
- UNESCO Auvidis, 12 Av. M. Thorez, 94100, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France.
- World Network, Distributed by Zweitausendeins Versand, Postfach, D-60381
Frankfurt.
- Window to Europe, Jodenbreestraat 24, 1011 NK, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- JARO publishes Huun-Huur-Tu's CDs in Europe and also organizes their tours in Europe.
http://www.jaro.de
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