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Huun-Huur-Tu feat. Sainkho - Mother Earth! Father Sky!
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Year: 2008
Style: throat singing
Country: Tuva
Quality: VBR kbps / Joint-Stereo
Size: 57 MB (5% recovery information included)
Tracklist:
01. Mezhegey 4:21
02. Daglarym 3:00
03. Ergim Syaryym / Song of Hope 4:33
04. Artyy Sayir 5:43
05. Erge Chokka / Unneeded 6:27
06. Dembildey / Nomad Dance 6:02
07. Chashpy-Hem / Chashpy River 6:28
08. Ovyur Hadip 3:56
09. Bai-Taiga 4:22
Playtime: 44:58 min
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg - voice, igil, doshpuluur
Chanzy Radik TYULYUSH - voice, byzaanchi, khomuz, amarga
Sayan Bapa - voice, doshpuluur, marinhuur, guitar
Alexey Saryglar - voice, tungur (drum), dazhaaning khavy (rattle)
Sholban Salchak - percussion instruments, igil
The long expected studio album of Huun-Huur-Tu was created in cooperation with famous singer Sainkho from Tuva. The aim was to produce an album based on ballads, with sounds of silence and nature, closed to the great enviroment of central Asia. The listener should dive into the nature and take time for "Mother-Earth! Father-Sky!" The music infers itself to the listener at the moment he/she takes time to relax.
What surprises and delights people who visit Tuva for the first time is that vast expanse of pristine nature.
The tenderness of springs, the wildness of rivers, the calmness of lakes, framed by severe, age-old mountains.
And in Tuva, people are amazed by the immense sky, always blue in the daytime, and infinitely starry at night. And what else? Tuvan melodies.
They have probably been sounding out for a thousand years between the great sky and the pristine earth.
And this calls to mind the words of Sotpaa Sat, the greatest story-teller of Tuva: "Mother-Earth! Father-Sky!"
"In this world, all plants and human beings have their father and mother; that is how the deity created it. Man's father is the sky, they say. From the very beginning, the sky was man's father, so people say."
"Once upon a time, when the flat thing used to float by like the wind, and the round thing used to roll by like a ball, three storms raged in this world. First the fire storm blazed and covered the world with flames. Then the water storm brought a flood and triumphed over the fire storm, putting the fire out, so they say.
Finally the tempest began and razed the high mountain of Sumber-Uula to the ground. The Earth speck emerged from the Sumber-Uula Taiga, which the tempest had destroyed, and crushed the water spout and dried the flood.
People say the tempest created this world. In the place of the tempest, rivers, mountains, valleys, seas and mankind appeared. So they say. Since that time, Father Sky and Mother Earth have coexisted and cannot live without each other. If the fire of the white sky goes and heaven vanishes, then all the living things and beings on Earth will perish..."
"Mother-Earth, I beg you to grant me happiness. Mother Earth, I beg you to grant me luck. Mother-Earth, I beg you to protect and care for my children. Mother-Earth, I beg you to protect my home and origins."
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The American producer and critic Ted Levin writes:
"It was shortly after the ensemble HUUN-HUUR-TU left Los Angeles to return to Tuva on the heels of a recording session for the sound track (by Ry Cooder) of a new Hollywood film about Geronimo, the chief of the Apaches, that I sat down to write these notes and realized that I'd forgotten to ask the members of HUUN-HUUR-TU a crucial question: what does HUUN-HUUR-TU mean in Tuvan, and why did they choose it as their monike? I picked up the phone and dialed Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva. In a few seconds, I was speaking with Alexander Bapa, the percussion player in HUUN-HUUR-TU (whose instrumentarium includes a conch shell, an enormous goat-skin shamanic drum, and a rattle made from the ankle bones of a sheep enclosed in a bull testicle. 'HUUN-HUUR-TU' means the vertical separation of light rays that you often see out on the grasslands just after sunrise or just before sunset.
Officially prohibited to foreigners, Tuva had achieved legendary status among a small group of devotees fascinated by the phenomenon of throat-singing, in which a single vocalist produces two or even three notes simultaneously by selectively amplifying harmonics naturally present in the voice. For these devotees, part of the allure of Tuvan throat-singing has undoubtedly been the mystery of Tuva itself. Ringed by mountains, desert, and thick taiga forest where descendants of the aboriginal Siberian forest people still herd reindeer. Tuva seems to be on the way to nowhere.
During the last few years, the political and cultural barriers that isolated Tuva for so long have begun to crumble. Much has changed there since my visit in 1987, when xenophobic officials gave the order to give a whole town a fresh coat of paint before the arrival of our expedition. Additionally all amateur musicians were released from work for one week to be able to prepare the songs that we wanted record. Tuva has welcomed foreigners interested in its culture and nature. Today Tuvans have begun to travel widely to present their remarkable musical art to a steadily increasing, diverse public. The ensemble HUUN-HUUR-TU is a product of Tuva's increasing worldliness."
In 1992 HUUN - HUUR - TU was founded by Sasha Bapa, his brother, Sayan, and two other musicians, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg and Albert Kuvezin. Ever since they have tried to focus on the performance of "old and forgotten songs", as Sasha put it. Sasha, Sayan, and Kaigal-ool were refugees of one of the large state-managed song and dance ensembles that became fixed institutions of the public cultural life during the Soviet era. For decades these ensembles with their glitzy performances of folk music or pseudo folk music offered the only possibility for young musicians to play indigenous music for a living. But throughout the privatization of the music business in the former Soviet Union, many musicians decided to abandon these state ensembles and formed their own groups. The musical results have decidedly been mixed.
The members of HUUN-HUUR-TU have devoted themselves to learning oId songs and tunes but at the same time their performances reflect the values of innovation as much as tradition. For example, the very notion of an ensemble like HUUN-HUUR-TU is new to Tuva: Most Tuvan music has traditionally been performed by a solo singer or instrumentalist, and musicians have tended to specialize in a particular genre or musical style. These genres and styles in turn have deep roots in particular kinds of social occasions. By contrast, HUUN-HUUR-TU's eclectic concert presentations of old songs and tunes fall between the cracks of Tuvan musical life. "In Tuva, there's still no real context for what we do," says Sasha Bapa. "We perform there only rarely because it's so difficult for an independent group like ours: where can we find a good hall and sound equipment, and transportation to get there? How can we deal with all the government and commercial structures that still control a lot of the booking? And who can offer fees that will support us even modestly as professional musicians? Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, the musical leader of our group, might be better known in America than in Tuva. We're trying to preserve our musical heritage, but at the same time, we're trying to look forward. If a musical tradition stops evolving, it is destined to die."
TUVA
This is the name of a remote region, far away from the familiar route of civilization in the center of Asia. The autonomous republic of Tuva, ringed by mountains and deserts (population 300.000) is part of the new formation of countries lead by Russia. It shares its Southern border with Mongolia, the capital is Kyzyl by the river Yennisey.
Tuvan explanations:
Khöömei: The name for overtone and throat singing
Sygyt (Tuvan: "whistle"): High overtone singing, sounding like a flute
Igil: Two-stringed fiddle with a carved wooden horses's head attached to the top of the neck, modern versions with three strings, played vertically, while sitting on the ground or on a chair
Doshpuluur - Two or three string banjo-like plucked instrument
Khomus - Mouth harp
Dungur - Large flat shaman drum or tambourine
Chanzy - Three string bowed instrument