Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva
List Price:
Our Price: $3.59
You Save: $13.39 (79%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-01-19
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- Reverberant Valley
- Sakha Animal Imitations - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Tuvan Round-Up - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Fantasy on the Igil - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Birds and Bird Imitations - Huun-Huur-Tu
- X??mei on Horseback - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Borbangnadyr With Stream Water
- Xomuz Imitating Water
- Home on the Mountain Range
- Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ?tt?neri (Limitation of Wild & Domestic Animals)
- Ang-Meng Mal-Magan ?tt?neri (Reprise)
- Harmonics in the Wind
- Sonic Landscape
- Legacy of Ancestors
- Cave Spirits - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Kyzyl Taiga (Red Forest) - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Talking Xomuz - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Chiraa-Xor - Huun-Huur-Tu
- Epilogue
Music reviews of Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva
Music Review: Nature
Rating: 3 Stars
Plenty of ambience, with imitation of natural sounds. I agree, not be for everyone though. I liked The Orphan's Lament much better for throat-singing, Huun-Huur-Tu best CD.
Description of Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva
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.Thanks to the astonishing clarity of modern recording techniques, this remarkable CD documents the oldest form of music making, which producer-recorders Ted Levin and Joel Gordon refer to as "sound mimesis," or the art of imitating natural sounds through music, as practiced in Tuva. With a variety of musicians, including members of Huun-Huur-Tu and other regular folk musicians and farmers, these 19 tracks were recorded outdoors on location (with the exception of two recorded in a small living room). Musicians and singers interact with the sounds of wild and domestic animals and environmental sounds like streams, the wind, and bird song. Throat singing and xomuz echo the harmonics of a babbling brook, upturned igil (fiddle) and doshpuluur (lute) replicate the effect of a wind harp with the breeze caressing the strings, and horsemen chant in the saddle, picking up the rhythm of galloping steeds. These and many other examples illustrate a living animist tradition where the boundaries between sound and song have no clear definition; indeed, the very term "music" as the Western world interprets it has no equivalent, and Tuva, Among the Spirits may well make you reassess the latent music in your own environment. --Derek Rath
General CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Ray Davies & the Crouch End Festival Chorus - The Kinks Choral CollectionRelease date: 2009-11-10; Music CD
Best price: $10.32
Price in other shops:
James Taylor - James Taylor at ChristmasColumbia; Release date: 2006-10-10; Music CD
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Raising SandRelease date: 2007-10-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.50
Price in other shops:
Lorrie Morgan - A Moment in TimeMorgan; Release date: 2009-10-26; Music CD
Best price: $9.97
Price in other shops:
Carly Simon - Never Been GoneDig; Release date: 2009-10-26; Music CD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
Peter Paul & Mary - The Very Best of Peter, Paul and MaryRelease date: 2005-08-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.94
Price in other shops:
Celtic Woman - A Christmas CelebrationCeltic; Release date: 2006-10-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.97
Price in other shops:
Leonard Cohen - Live In LondonSony; Release date: 2009-03-31; Music CD
Best price: $8.47
Price in other shops:
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and YouRelease date: 2009-09-29; Music CD
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops:
Lyle Lovett - Natural ForcesRelease date: 2009-10-20; Music CD
Best price: $10.94
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Gyuto Monks - Tibetan Tantric ChoirGYUTO MONKS; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $5.68
Price in other shops:
Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery - Sacred Tibetan ChantRelease date: 2003-01-21; Music CD
Best price: $4.39
Price in other shops:
Yat Kha - Tuva.RockRelease date: 2005-08-15; Music CD
Best price: $16.95
Price in other shops:
![Eternal [CD on Demand] Image](/images/Eternal-CD-on-Demand-B002HFMWDE-X.jpg)
Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo - Eternal [CD on Demand]Release date: 2009-08-20; Music CD
Best price: $8.49
Price in other shops:
Genghis BluesNew Video; Release date: 2000-12-05; DVD
Best price: $10.19
Price in other shops:
Genghis BluesRelease date: 2000-11-07; Music CD
Best price: $11.42
Price in other shops:
Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from TuvaRelease date: 2007-11-20; Music CD
Best price: $11.98
Price in other shops:
Tuvinian Singers - Choomej: Throat-Singing From the Center of AsiaRelease date: 1995-11-21; Music CD
Best price: $17.01
Price in other shops:
Kongar-ol Ondar - Back Tuva FutureRelease date: 1999-01-12; Music CD
Best price: $10.95
Price in other shops:
Tuva: Voices From the Center of AsiaRelease date: 1992-07-13; Music CD
Best price: $11.95
Price in other shops: