Throat Singing From Tuva

[Superhorn]

   Are there any people here who are fans of Throat  Singing from Tuva, in the former Soviet Union on the noprth-western border of Mongolia ? 
   I discovered these amazing nomadic South Siberian singers some years ago.  If you haven't heard them, you are in for something amazing.  Throat singing is a technique whereby one singer actually produces TWO or more pitches at the same time by manipulating the vocal cavity so as to produce audible overtones .
  These must be the strangest sounds ever to come out of the human throat.  A Tuvan singer will often start out with  a strange guttural sound deep in the throat, and then seconds later, you will hear what sound s like a kind of whistling sound. But this is not whistling with the lips, but harmonics above the fundamental tone !

    I've been listening to a CD of Tuvan throat singing from Amiata records called Music From Tuva; I don't know if it's still available, but it's worth looking for.  You can also Google Tuvan throat singing to find more information about where to find recording or go to the Friends of  Tuva  website.
Back in the 90s, I saw a group of these Tuvans perform at the Winter Garden in New York, and it was an amazing experience.
   

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

   Are there any people here who are fans of Throat  Singing from Tuva, in the former Soviet Union on the noprth-western border of Mongolia ? 

Yes! Huun-Huur-Tu's CD Sixty Horses in My Herd is a recording I've cherished for years. I heard them in concert in Prague in 2001; it was quite an experience.

Just a couple weeks ago I went to a concert at the club White Clouds (Белые Облака). It featured Otkhon, a throat-singer from Buryatia (an area close to Tuva). Otkhon not only did throat-singing, he played several different Buryat folk instruments, and told Buryat stories and legends.

[Dax]

This chap is the English specialist

http://www.soundtransformations.btinternet.co.uk/Michaelbiog1.htm

[Roy Bland]

[steve ridgway]

It's an incredible technique and not confined merely to traditional folk music, Yat-Kha have been trying to widen its appeal .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9fvhQdU00