[ADemocratNoMore]

Back when the USSR was a very closed society under the commie regime, U.S. physicist Richard Feinman tried for many years and ultimately succeeded in becoming one of the first westerners to travel to Tuva and also “discover” Tuvan throat singing.

RIP Aldyn-ool Sevek.

As an aside, thanks to some of the YouTube links posted here I just discovered a Tuvan rock band called Yat-Kha.
Not exactly traditional Tuvan folk music, but check out their covers of “When The Levee Breaks”...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYWxW0sh6o&feature=related

and “In A Gadda Da Vida” !...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aPiGgwyAdw&feature=related

Is this a great planet or what?.

[MonicaG]

Amazing. Love mining up old & unknown stuff on YouTube!

[ADemocratNoMore]

> As an aside, thanks to some of the YouTube links posted here I just discovered a Tuvan rock band called Yat-Kha.

I've just spent the last hour listening to this band do amazing things morphing what I assume are traditional folk music and instruments with good old fashioned rock&roll.

Its the Tuvan version of Steeleye Span!.

And in the same vein, the Hungarian version - Veszelka Kommandó...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9UdV3I7Cg

I've gone totally off topic here, apologies.

[caver]

Awesome!