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TriO & Sainkho: Forgotten Streets of St. Petersburg

by John Eyles
September 23, 2005

More than fifteen years have passed since Sainkho Namchylak first toured with TriO and started to cause a stir. Fifteen years also since Leo Records released her first recordings. Back then, her Tuvan vocals sounded extraordinary, alien, and strange. In the intervening years, Namchylak has played all over the world in a wide variety of contexts with an ever-expanding group of collaborators.

But one thing has not changed; her vocals still sound as extraordinary, alien, and strange as ...