Yat-Kha founder Albert Kuvezin reportedly left Huun-Huur-Tu, the ensemble that introduced Tuvan throat singing to the West, because he considered its style too "folkloric." Yet the first song on his ...
Imagine that a prehistoric Mongol demon commandeered Tom Waits’s notorious throat and a fistful of Martian instruments for a possessed joy ride through a weird western canon (“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” ...
Yat-Kha's recent Re-Covers album bends the work of Led Zeppelin, Motörhead, The Rolling Stones, Santana and Iron Butterfly until it nearly snaps. The band have been known on previous albums for the ...
Albert Kuvesin has always been a maverick. He comes from Tuva, out on the borders of Siberia and western Mongolia, where he became an expert in the extraordinary local style of throat singing, which ...
Tuvan musician Albert Kuvezin (center) and his band, Yat-Kha, have performed in China since the 1990s. [Photo provided to China Daily] Albert Kuvezin is one of the first musicians from the Russian ...
When Genghis Khan set out to conquer the world, he turned to the Central Asian region of Tuva to recruit his best horsemen. Eight centuries later the Tuvans have come to conquer the West once more, ...
If one is not a specialist in post-Soviet affairs and has ever heard of the Republic of Tuva, it has very likely been in relation to its music. To a large extent, the tiny south Siberian territory ...
If anywhere truly is the back of beyond, it's Tuva, a place that's difficult to get to even from such easy-to-reach neighbours as Siberia and Outer Mongolia. Almost entirely surrounded by mountains, ...
Russian music critic Artemi Troitsky once made the sweeping declaration that only two unique voices exist on Earth—Luciano Pavarotti, and the comparatively obscure Albert Kuvezin. Obscure or not, the ...
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