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CHODURAA TUMAT

SKMR 021 Choduraa Tumat Belek / The Gift, 2005

File under: ethnic / Tuva / woman voices

As the title suggests, this album is Choduraa`s “gift” for her listeners as well as an expression of her own musical gift. And what a gift it is! Her vocal range is astonishing. She slips with ease between the glottal gymnastic of throat-singing to the plaintive tones of a lullaby or love song, and the ritual imitative calls of animal husbandry. Her instrumental ability is equally impressive as she conjures up the taiga and steppes of Tyva with the igil fiddle or khomus lute and sings of her love with the demir khomus jew’s harp/ she shines as a beacon for women – in Tyva and worldwide – for having the strength to break the traditional gender taboo and perform khoomi, and for standing up to be counted among the wonderful musicians of Tyva”.

DrCarole Pegg

Director of “Inner Asian music”, UK;

Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge, England.

Choduraa Tumat    is one of the brightest personalities among the younger generation of Tyvan musicians. She has a wide range of performing abilities. Apart from being a good instrumentalist, playing many instrumentals, Choduraa performs both khoomei and folksongs. Many of Choduraa’s songs have already become popular among Tyvans. It took great creative audacity to step over the frontiers of the traditional idea of khoomei being the prerogative of men. Choduraa Tumat is also the leader of the unique all-women throat-singing group “Tyva Kyzy” (Daughters of Tyva)

Valentina Yuryevna Susukey

(Candidate of Arts, member of the

Union of composers of the Rassian Federation,

Renowned scientist of the republic of Tyva, scientific

secretary of the Tyvan Institute of the Humanitarian Research



                                                               listen to track   05 - "Kanchap ijiei berbes irgi?" ("Joy is it that it doesn`t hurt?")

RELEASES

SKMR 019 Kyzyl-Moscow Festival fromTuva music in Moscow, 2005

File under: folk / Tuva

The concept of the festival is the dialogue of two cultures, two capitals, and two peoples: Kyzyl as the capital of Asia, and Moscow as the capital of Russia.

Tuvan music tradition has an unparalleled emotional radiance. It is wonderfully diverse, melodic and easily accessible even for a first-time listener. The throatsinging has been a symbol of Tuvan culture and identity since the times of old, being an important part of celebrations and rites, and often mentioned in heroic epics and tales. It had never been developed separately, being a part of variety of art forms and life’s activities, inherited from one generation to another, and connected to the wide and mysterious world of nomadic poetry.

Moscow poses as an overly urbanized world that with its big-city rush forgets traditions and the treasure of each nation, traditional culture. Against this background, the careful and skillful devotion of Tuvans towards their own tradition is a symbol that makes you think of your own history and in conjunction of your place in the world community. Moscow and Kyzyl, two ancient Eurasian capitals, connect times together with the help of traditions and the music.

to listen:

track 1 groope: Changy-Khaya song: Mццrgьl (Prayer)

track 6 groope: Changy-Khaya song: Kyzyn Chьrek – (Heart of the Beauty)

SKMR 020 Leonov-Sokolov-Derevlev (VaTaGa project)

File under: ethnic fusion/ambient

Ethno-art-jazz project of member of Va-Ta-Ga band from Karelia (Russian-Finish border area), recorder during live session in St.Peterburg. This record sounds like experimental ethnic ambient, which musicians played “live”, using the rich variety of handmade folk instruments (like Karelian “youhikko” violin and musical saw) & different styles of traditional singing, combining with modern electronic & sound effects. Music of “L.S.D. Project” express the original spirit of Russian North-side. The beat of waves of White Sea, hurling of seagulls, a songs of a lone pilgrim – all this merge into one musical space, which takes listeners far away from their casual world.

track-list:

Hey, you falcons
In the river, in the stream
Along the sea

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