Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia

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

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Track Listing

101	Steppe Kargiraa	Fedor Tau	01:20
102	Sigit	Mergen Mongush	00:33
103	Sigit "Alash"	Mergen Mongush	01:38
104	Sigit with Igil (bowed instrument)	Anatoli Kuular	02:12
105	Khoomei	Fedor Tau	00:34
106	Khoomei	Sundukai Mongush	00:26
107	Tespeng Khoomei	Sundukai Mongush	00:46
108	Kozhamik (medley) with khoomei, sigit, and kargiraa	Tumat Kara-ool	02:00
109	Kargiraa duet "Artii-Sayir"	Tumat Kara-ool and Andrei Chuldum-ool	01:08
110	Khomuz melodies performed by trio of Khomuz players	Anchimaa Sonat, Anchimaa Khert, Achyimaa Targin Chandanmaa Torten-ool	01:49
111	Borbannadir	Mikhail Dopchun	00:54
112	Borbannadir	Tumat Kara-ool	00:48
113	Borbannadir with finger strokes across lips	Tumat Kara-ool	00:42
114	Borbannadir	Anatoli Kuular	01:26
115	Ezengileer	Marzhimal Ondar	01:22
116	Sigit with khomuz	Oleg Kuular	00:56
117	Medley of various throat-singing styles	Ensemble "Amirak"	02:56
118	Kargiraa "Artii-Sayir"	Vasili Chazir	01:05
119	Melody on the amirge (hunting horn): luring of the stag	Vasilii Khuurak	00:46
120	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	03:32
121	Domestication of sheep to lamb	Doluma Lopsanchap	01:13
122	Domestication of goat to kid	Doluma Lopsanchap	00:33
123	Domestication of cow to calf	Khuren Oorzhak	00:33
124	Domestication of camel to calf	Shimet Soyan	00:30
125	Excerpt from shamanic healing ritual	Alexander Davakai	02:19
126	Funeral lament	Tatyana Sat	01:20
127	Lullaby	Tatyana Sat	00:55
128	Wooden jew's harp	Balgan Kuzhuget	00:46
129	Lullaby with Khoomei	Bilchit-Maa Davaa	01:08
130	Long Song: "Don't Frighten the Crane"	Sundukai Mongush	01:50
131	Long Song: "When I Graze My Beautiful Sheep"	Khuren Oorzhak	01:30
132	Kozhamiktar (antiphonal quatrains)	Group of men and women from Chadan, Dzun-Khemchik Region	01:03
133	Ceremonial Song: "Hymn to the Mountains"	Kazak Sandak	01:01