Name: Tuva: Among the Spirits - Sound Music & Nature in Sakha
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
SKU: 422292
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Album: Tuva: Among the Spirits - Sound Music & Nature in Sakha
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Reverberant Valley, A
2)	Sakha Animal Imitations
3)	Tuvan Round-Up
4)	Fantasy on the Igil - Huun-Huur-Tu
5)	Birds and Bird Imitations - Huun-Huur-Tu
6)	X””mei on Horseback - Huun-Huur-Tu
7)	Borbangnadyr With Stream Water - Huun-Huur-Tu
8)	Xomuz Imitating Water - Huun-Huur-Tu
9)	Home on the Mountain Range
10)	Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ™ttneri (Limitation of Wild & Domestic Animals)
11)	Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ™ttneri (Reprise) - (reprise)
12)	Harmonics in the Wind
13)	Sonic Landscape
14)	Legacy of Ancestors, The
15)	Cave Spirits - Huun-Huur-Tu
16)	Kyzyl Taiga (Red Forest) - Huun-Huur-Tu :: Red Forest - Huun-Huur-Tu
17)	Talking Xomuz - Huun-Huur-Tu
18)	Chiraa-Xor - Huun-Huur-Tu
19)	Epilogue

Album: Tuva: Among the Spirits - Sound Music & Nature in Sakha
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Reverberant Valley, A
2)	Sakha Animal Imitations
3)	Tuvan Round-Up
4)	Fantasy on the Igil - Huun-Huur-Tu
5)	Birds and Bird Imitations - Huun-Huur-Tu
6)	X””mei on Horseback - Huun-Huur-Tu
7)	Borbangnadyr With Stream Water - Huun-Huur-Tu
8)	Xomuz Imitating Water - Huun-Huur-Tu
9)	Home on the Mountain Range
10)	Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ™ttneri (Limitation of Wild & Domestic Animals)
11)	Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ™ttneri (Reprise) - (reprise)
12)	Harmonics in the Wind
13)	Sonic Landscape
14)	Legacy of Ancestors, The
15)	Cave Spirits - Huun-Huur-Tu
16)	Kyzyl Taiga (Red Forest) - Huun-Huur-Tu :: Red Forest - Huun-Huur-Tu
17)	Talking Xomuz - Huun-Huur-Tu
18)	Chiraa-Xor - Huun-Huur-Tu
19)	Epilogue

Performer Notes

Recorded in Siberia from 1995 to 1998. Includes liner notes by Ted Levin.
Liner Note Author: Ted Levin.
Recording information: Sakha; Tuva; Yakutsk.
Photographers: Joel Gordon; Ted Levin.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Anatoli Kuular; Sayan Bapa; Kaigal-ool Khovalyg.
A surprising release from Folkways showcasing the "sound environment" of the plains of Tuva and Sakha, in Northern Mongolia and Southern Siberia. A team of ethnomusicologists trekked through the plains with members of Huun Huur Tu, among others, and recorded both the techniques of various styles of song and instruments, but also the ambient landscape noises, such as animals and general wind, etc. The highlights and surprises on the album are intertwined and many. A member of Huun Huur Tu at one point demonstrates the borbangnadyr technique of imitating a stream and using the stream itself to amplify the overtones of song. Also, wonderful demonstrations of a couple forms of xoomei emerge, most notably with the aid of a cave's reverberation on track 15. For someone even mildly acquainted with the styles of music native to Central Asia, this would be a worthwhile endeavor. For armchair (or professional, for that matter) ethnomusicologists, it is nearly a dream come true. ~ Adam Greenberg

Professional Reviews

Dirty Linen (6-7/99, p.88) - "This amazing release is not like earlier recordings of Tuvan musicians, or anything else I've ever heard....fascinating..."