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From Tuva to America, Huun Huur Tu Calls to Their Ancestors

From Tuva to America, Huun Huur Tu Calls to Their Ancestors

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

The whistling of the high-mountain wind creates eerie overtones and postmodern statement. The repeated thrum of a string against wood and hide turns into a meditative, evocative figure straight from the avant-garde. The descendents of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music out of some of the planet's quirkiest acoustics. The Tuvan acoustic quartet Huun Huur Tu prove that Tuvan music can take plenty of intelligent innovation on their latest album, Ancestors Call (World Village; October 12), a collection ...

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Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Collaboration Releases August 18

Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Collaboration Releases August 18

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.

Stone Ancestors, Forest Spirits, and Pink Floyd Across Fifteen Time Zones: Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Distill a New Sound for Tuva's Soul on Eternal

The songs that echo in boreal forests and bounce off primordial peaks have a blind date in the Hollywood hills. There, carefully crafted electronica meets the horse-hair spike fiddle and stone images of the ancestors are praised to the sound of lush strings. This is no remix-this is a sonic meeting of minds between ...

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