093074045220

Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music, And Nature In Sakha And Tuva

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: SFW40452

Release Date:  19 January 1999

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074045220

Genres:  World Music  

  • Description

    Tuva, Among the Spirits is a sonic journey to the steppes of southern Siberia, the wellspring of Tuvan and Sakhan music, where the spiritual power of nature is manifested through its sounds. In these unprecedented on-site recordings, master musicians imitate and interact with the natural acoustic environment. Recorded in 1995-1998 on horseback, in creek beds, caves, canyons, and grasslands. Extensive notes, photographs, and discography. 1999 New Age Voice Music Awards: awarded finalist for Best Traditional World Album of 1999. This recording also received 2000 Crossroads music Awards Silver Star for World-Traditional.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. A Reverberant Valley
      • 2. Sakha Animal Imitations
      • 3. Tuvan Round-Up
      • 4. Fantasy On The Igil
      • 5. Birds And Birds Imitations
      • 6. Xoomei On Horseback
      • 7. Borbangnadyr With Stream Water
      • 8. Xomuz (Jew's Harp) Imitating Water
      • 9. Home On The (Mountain) Range
      • 10. Ang-Meng Mal-Magen Ottuneri (Imitation Of Wild And Domestic Animals)
      • 11. Ang-Meng Mal-Magen Ottuneri (Reprise)
      • 12. Harmonics In The Wind
      • 13. Sonic Landscape
      • 14. The Legacy Of Ancestors
      • 15. Cave Spirits
      • 16. Kyzyl Taiga (Red Forest)
      • 17. Talking Xomuz
      • 18. Chiraa-Xor
      • 19. Epilogue