tuvan throat singers...

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has anyone heard this stuff? sounds as electronic as a natural voice can sound. ths shit is amazing...

http://www.furious.com/perfect/tuva.html

I saw this tuvan band Huun-Huur-Tu at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. They usually have typical folk people such as roger mcguinn, nancy griffith, etc. but every once in a while they have weird shit like this. it was really cool but ithink it freaked out some of the oldheads

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yeah, me and may k saw them play with Nina Nistasia on their recent tour and we have a recording of her peel session which she did with them... all pretty amazing stuff. that guys throat singing is out of this world, he does that crazy shit where you sing 2 notes at once!

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Jamie does a bit of that, I believe.

Weirdly, overtone singing is fairly commonplace all over the world. When I did Ayahuasca ceremony with a Shuar shaman from Ecuador, he did a bit of that, as well as playing a 'Jews Harp' type instrument. Apparently the beings of the spirit world consider overtones to be a sort of food or something, and it helps get them onside before you 'go into their world' if you make a few of those 'oingyboingy' noises first or something.

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Originally posted by V Knid esq
Jamie does a bit of that, I believe.

Weirdly, overtone singing is fairly commonplace all over the world. When I did Ayahuasca ceremony with a Shuar shaman from Ecuador, he did a bit of that, as well as playing a 'Jews Harp' type instrument. Apparently the beings of the spirit world consider overtones to be a sort of food or something, and it helps get them onside before you 'go into their world' if you make a few of those 'oingyboingy' noises first or something.

what an amazing paragraph! all the way from high brow to low in under a minute!

the Huun-Huur-Tu guys play that Jews Harp thing too. do you reckon playing a classic metallica riff on a guitar might work too?

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what an amazing paragraph! all the way from high brow to low in under a minute!


my thoughts, exactly.
the first time i ever truly felt like i had had a spiritual experience was while in Amsterdam, walking through this tunnel to get to the Van Gogh museum and there was a Tuvan group that played the most beautiful music i had ever heard. my eyes began to well up with tears and i felt this almost electric feeling radiating from my chest. i couldn't stop from crying. it was the first time i ever felt that i had been in the presence of something greater than man and more powerful than anything i'd ever known. i believed that moment to have be a breakthough in my own consciousness, almost as much so as the first time i ever took LSD.

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i know a guy at an acoustic music camp i used to go to who can do it good. he tried to teach me. i can do some overtones but it's hard to hear and hard to control, i can only get a few notes and i can't make it move independently from the melody... but i'm not a strong singer by any definition either.