Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia
Various Artists

Recorded in 1987, this highly-acclaimed release makes available to the world a miraculous and remarkable ancient musical tradition, including examples of the rare multiphonic "throat-singing" technique. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Folklife Programs, and the U.S.S.R. Union of Composers, it is an astonishing achievement. "Primal and forthright...a beguiling earful." The New York Times
RELATED LESSON PLAN
"The Jew’s Harp: Vibrating Through Many Cultures"
"An Exploratory Short Course in Tuvan Throat Singing"
Track Listing
101
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Steppe Kargiraa | Fedor Tau | 1:20 | |
102
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Sigit | Mergen Mongush | 0:33 | |
103
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Sigit "Alash" | Mergen Mongush | 1:38 | |
104
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Sigit with Igil (bowed instrument) | Anatoli Kuular | 2:12 | |
105
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Khoomei | Fedor Tau | 0:34 | |
106
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Khoomei | Sundukai Mongush | 0:26 | |
107
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Tespeng Khoomei | Sundukai Mongush | 0:46 | |
108
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Kozhamik (medley) with khoomei, sigit, and kargiraa | Tumat Kara-ool | 2:00 | |
109
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Kargiraa duet "Artii-Sayir" | Tumat Kara-ool and Andrei Chuldum-ool | 1:08 | |
110
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Khomuz melodies performed by trio of Khomuz players | Anchimaa Sonat, Anchimaa Khert, Achyimaa Targin Chandanmaa Torten-ool | 1:49 | |
111
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Borbannadir | Mikhail Dopchun | 0:54 | |
112
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Borbannadir | Tumat Kara-ool | 0:48 | |
113
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Borbannadir with finger strokes across lips | Tumat Kara-ool | 0:42 | |
114
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Borbannadir | Anatoli Kuular | 1:26 | |
115
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Ezengileer | Marzhimal Ondar | 1:22 | |
116
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Sigit with khomuz | Oleg Kuular | 0:56 | |
117
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Medley of various throat-singing styles | Ensemble "Amirak" | 2:56 | |
118
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Kargiraa "Artii-Sayir" | Vasili Chazir | 1:05 | |
119
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Melody on the amirge (hunting horn): luring of the stag | Vasilii Khuurak | 0:46 | |
120
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Imitation of the roe deer, the musk deer, the reindeer, owl, wolf's howl; Appeal to the patron of hunters before the bear hunt; Reinder herder's calls to reindeer | Vasilii Khuurak, Shozhul Salchak, and Polina Ore-ool | 3:32 | |
121
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Domestication of sheep to lamb | Doluma Lopsanchap | 1:13 | |
122
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Domestication of goat to kid | Doluma Lopsanchap | 0:33 | |
123
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Domestication of cow to calf | Khuren Oorzhak | 0:33 | |
124
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Domestication of camel to calf | Shimet Soyan | 0:30 | |
125
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Excerpt from shamanic healing ritual | Alexander Davakai | 2:19 | |
126
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Funeral lament | Tatyana Sat | 1:20 | |
127
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Lullaby | Tatyana Sat | 0:55 | |
128
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Wooden jew's harp | Balgan Kuzhuget | 0:46 | |
129
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Lullaby with Khoomei | Bilchit-Maa Davaa | 1:08 | |
130
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Long Song: "Don't Frighten the Crane" | Sundukai Mongush | 1:50 | |
131
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Long Song: "When I Graze My Beautiful Sheep" | Khuren Oorzhak | 1:30 | |
132
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Kozhamiktar (antiphonal quatrains) | Group of men and women from Chadan, Dzun-Khemchik Region | 1:03 | |
133
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Ceremonial Song: "Hymn to the Mountains" | Kazak Sandak | 1:01 |