My flute teacher, a veteran jazz player and educator, sent me this video today. I was floored. I know a thing or two about Tuvan singing, having followed it for over twenty years with music from ...
Japanese avant-garde vocalist Koichi Makigami and his group Hikashu have been part of Japan's new wave scene since the 1970's. Their work combines improv, techno pop, Tuvan throat singing and even ...
For years, the territory that makes up Tuva spent hundreds of years changing hands. The semi-autonomous republic is now technically part of Russia. But Tuvans boast a musical identity all their own, ...
At the time, Tuvan throat singing was unknown in the United States to all but a tiny group of devoted fans, said Ralph Leighton, founder of the newsletter-turned-website Friends of Tuva, who made the ...
Tonight, The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, will host Tuvan throat singing group Alash. Albany is the group’s first stop on its U.S. tour, where audiences will hear music performed in a ...
Leading the way for folk's recent populist revival, Madra Salach frontman Paul Banks looks to Siberia for a slice of ...
Shodekeh Talifero was a panelist at a conference on world affairs in 2009 when he met fellow panelist and legendary film critic Roger Ebert and the pair made a connection. “He wrote to me, ‘I wish I ...
In art, there are the stories you want to believe and the ones you have to. Maybe you'd like to think Vermeer was in love with the girl with the pearl earring, or that Robert Johnson met the devil at ...
REUTERS - Kongar-ol Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer credited with popularizing the centuries-old musical tradition of his homeland to Western audiences, died on Thursday after emergency surgery to treat ...