The Orphan's Lament

Artist: Huun-Huur-Tu
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351645821
EAN: 0016351645821
ASIN: B000000E3E

Release Date: 1994-11-23

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nOteD wiThoUt coMmeNt
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World Music Starter Kit

Tracks:

Prayer
Ancestors
Aa-Shuu Dekei-Oo
Eerbek-Aksy
The Orphan's Lament
Kaldak Khamar
Steppe
Borbanngadyr
Chiraa-Khoor (The Yellow Trotter)
Exile's Song
Eki Attar
Irik Chuduk (The Rotting Log)
Sygyt
Agitator
Khomuz Medley
Odugen Taiga

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60 Horses in My Herd: Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva
If I'd Been Born an Eagle
Where Young Grass Grows
Tuva: Voices From the Center of Asia
Spirits from Tuva

Customer Reviews:

Not for every set of ears.......2006-01-15

It's out there from a the perspective of a Brittany Spears world. But I find it hypnotic and fun. If you have gotten far enough into this to read the reviews, you'll probably dig it. Listen to a sample. That should tell you all you need to know.

Timeless.......2005-03-09

Time and again I go back to this album. The music is uplifting, enchanting, and spiritual to me. My favorite is "Yellow Trotter" with the sounds of nature coming in a close second.

Once, years ago, I had the opportunity to see them in concert. They are delightful to see in person and at work. Hopefully they shall tour again.

A must for lovers of world music, any music, or if you have never heard music... start here.

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Huun-Huur-Tu's 2nd album improves on the first.......2002-06-14

Tuvan throat-singing techniques allow a singer to sing two notes at once, a low drone and a higher melody made of the overtones of the low note. Huun-Huur-Tu specializes in old Tuvan songs that were in danger of being forgotten during the long Soviet reign. This album is an improvement over their first album, "60 Horses in My Herd", by adding Anatoli Kuular's strong tenor to the band. Kuular has the best voice I've heard in Tuvan music, and he and Kaigal-ool Khovalyg provide a great one-two punch here. My favorite song is "Aa-shuu Dekei-oo"; other highlights are the "Exile's Song" and "Agitator". Every Tuvan album includes some khomuz jaw harp, and that's usually the low point of the album for me--the medley of khomuz here is perhaps the most listenable I've heard. The instrumentation is mostly simplified variations on violins and banjos, and the playing is pretty basic.

Orphan's Lament.......2000-06-04

I nominate Orphan's Lament for the national anthem of Macho-topia. The jew's harp solo was especially moving. And the throat singing transported me to another world. These guys stampede their semi-wild horses straight into your brain and kick up dust in your cerabellum.

Night sky over the steppe.......2000-01-13

I am writing this to refute the previous review that called this "Mongol techno music". "Techno" would seem to hint that this is electronic music that just happens to also have Tuvan-style vocals. That is 100% not the case! The music on this cd is completely acoustic and played on traditional and non-traditional Tuvan instruments, and the previous reviewer has no familiarity with Nepalese music, because it does not sound like this, nor does this music have any rap-like qualities. I also disagree with the "official review" that called this "musically naive at first listen". There is nothing naive about the level of musicianship and/or vocal ability that the men on this cd possess.

Tuvan throat-singing is really something to behold. Whereas Tibetan Buddhist-style throat-singing seems to stop and start while already in the overtone, Tuvan throat-singing usually starts in a normal voice (one note) and then in mid-note the singers will shift into the overtones, and their actual overtones sound vastly different than those of the Tibetan's as well. In short, this is some of the most beautifully ethereal-yet-rustic music ever recorded.

A couple (of the many) standout tracks are STEPPE and KHOMUZ MEDLEY.

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