That's gonna be a long trek to see the estate on the anniversary of his death every year.
Posted on 10/02/2011 11:00:34 PM PDT by LucyT
Today Tuva lost one of the most vivid representatives of the traditional school of Tuvan khoomei, the owner of inimitable performance mastery of kargyraa style, National khoomeizhi of Republic Tyva, Aldyn-ool Sevek. In the words of musicologist Valentina Suzukei, his manner of throat singing was unique to such an extent that it was unmistakably recognizable..."
He was the only khoomeizhi whose performance so far nobody in the world could copy or imitate, despite all striving.
He spent the last years critically ill in Kyzyl, hospitalized at the oncology hospital, while he very much wanted to go back home - to the distant Mongun-Taiga.
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Several days after his return home, the singer died…
(Excerpt) Read more at en.tuvaonline.ru ...
In America, you sing with throat; in Soviet Russia, throat sings with you!
Contemplation is good for the mind.
You’re very welcome. I wish I could sing like that.
The first time I ever heard throat singing was on futurama (billy west).
That's gonna be a long trek to see the estate on the anniversary of his death every year.
IBDCSP (In Before Dylan Can’t Sing Posts.)
Hah! I like that “Hungarian version,” even if one can’t understand the lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3269qCaaXZo&feature=related
I was greatly impressed with the bagpiper’s set of lungs until I noticed in another video that the thing is ELECTRIC!
Bump to hear these things in the daytime...
Ping
I went to high school with Billy West.
He did all the voices on our Rock Station, WBCN, before he went to Hollywood! :-)
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