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Watercolor by artist Mairin-Taj Caya Made during Alash's Spring 2009 tour. |
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Three Watercolor Sketches by artist Rami Efal Made during performance at Judson Memorial Church (28 June 2007) |
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Fifth International Xöömei Symposium Russian NTV coverage of the Xöömei Symposium held in Kyzyl, Tuva (24-28 July 2008). Alash members are among the performers. (YouTube) |
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"Russia Today" visits Tyva, interviews Sean Quirk Fifth International Xöömei Symposium (24-28 July 2008), "Wayfarer: Destination Tyva" (11 July 2008), multi-part series "Feature: Republic of Tyva" (4-6 September 2007), presented in English by Russian television. |
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Alash performs at a concert for Vladimir Putin Por-Bazhyn, Tuva Coverage by Russian television channel 1-TV (13 August 2007 [2:34]) |
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Alash at the University of Texas, Austin Austin, Texas (8 April 2010 [02:12]) |
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Alash at the Millennium Stage Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. (8 August 2009 [56:11]) Video of Alash's performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
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Alash at the Grass Roots Festival Trumansburg, New York (17-18 July 2009 [9:21]) Video posted to YouTube by Cindy of Obsidian Custom Video. |
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Alash on tour with Béla Fleck & the Flecktones 2008 & 2009 Alash were guest artists of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, who were on tour to promote their CD "Jingle All the Way," which features Alash on several tracks. Eight videos on YouTube: two by Sam Anderson, three by gblass, one by Timm Hertel MyTallTripod@gmail.com, and two by holycowdude. Audio recordings by MyTallMicStand. |
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"Tuvan Throat Singing in Dallas" Bob Hope Theater at Southern Methodist University (6 May 2007) Video by Nathan Hunsinger, DallasNews.com (Requires Windows Media Player. Help.) |
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"Transpacific Sound Paradise: Alash" Six songs and one interview segment recorded live for WFMU 91.1 FM. Jersey City, New Jersey (24 July 2009). Rob Weisberg, host. |
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"Live Performances: Alash" Live performance and interview segments. WGBH 89.7 FM. Boston, Massachusetts (21 July 2009). Richard Knisely, host. |
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"Lake Effect: Alash" [12:30] Performance and interview on Milwaukee Public Radio WUWM 89.7 FM. Milwaukee, Wisconsin (28 April 2009) |
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"Sound Check: Alash" [17:43] Performance and interview on New York Public Radio WNYC 93.9 FM. New York, New York (18 December 2008) |
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Jam Sessions: Alash and the Extra Special Terrestrial Guests The Rotunda, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (18 June 2007 and 29 January 2008) Two audio tracks from the video by Jason Fifield, and one audio track from the recording by Brendan Krivda. |
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Nature-mimicking singers visit Austin for live show Daily Texan, April 8, 2010 ... " The practice [throat singing] has ancient pastoral origins and is often described as a means to mimic nature's sounds by creating 'sonic sketches' of geographical features. "... |
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Alash on the Road Thimblewicket, April 3, 2010 ... "When they began singing, the listeners fell stone-quiet, no doubt wondering how four human voices can seem to split into an infinite number of them like that."... |
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Alash Visits Lansing Schools Carnegie Arts Center, March 2010 ... "Alash was greeted with cheers and applause by their middle school audience, who were full of questions about their instruments, throat singing, and their homeland, Tuva."... |
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Throat singers use their voices in way that 'really gets to you' Portland Press Herald, February 25, 2010 ... "It (the Tuvan tradition of throat singing) is a very expressive and extremely beautiful method of using the human voice," Quirk said. "They have this amazing ability to filter sound -- the sound of their voices. They subtract frequencies."... |
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones @ the Paramount Theatre Denver Post, December 21, 2009 ... The quartet [Alash] played ... traditional songs from their homeland, most of which involved stories about horses and women[, and] had a near-capacity audience enthralled and dead silent during each piece.... |
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Bela Fleck - Live at the State Kosmopolitan Online, December 17, 2009 ... Their [Alash's] presence with the Flecktones ... is a testament to Bela Fleck's insistence on surrounding himself with the most talented and interesting musicians in the world.... |
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Bela Fleck puts beauty and brrr in Yule tunes Star Tribune, December 15, 2009 ... Throw in special guests, the Alash Ensemble (Tuvan throat singers/folk musicians), and this was not only one of the most remarkable Christmas concerts this year but one of the most rewarding performances of all of 2009.... |
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Bela Fleck and Flecktones reinvent Christmas holiday tunes The Capital Times, December 14, 2009 ... As the men [Alash] sang a slow, mesmerizing chant that reverberated throughout the theater, your ear could pick up a faint, high-pitched whistle emitted behind the drone that sounded strangely familiar. Wait . . . is that "Jingle Bells"? Moments like that were a breath of crisp fresh air blowing through the stale Christmas music genre, where everyone from the Jonas Brothers to Twisted Sister bangs out a quickie holiday album to make a few bucks.... |
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Bela Fleck, band present eclectic Christmas show Kalamazoo Gazette, December 13, 2009 ... The Alash Ensemble of Tuva, a Russian republic north of Mongolia in frigid Siberia, knew how to make music for a bitterly cold night. ... |
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When the Alash Ensemble Sings, the World Listens MichiganLive.com, December 10, 2009 ... Tuvan throat singing (or "xöömei"), where the whistle of birds, the groan of camels, the rhythm of galloping horses and rushing rivers combine in a singer's throat, often with multiple notes at the same time.... |
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Alash Rings in the Holidays as Guest Artists of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones Tuva-Online November 9, 2009 The Tuvan throat singers Alash are flying to the U.S. from reindeer country to perform "Jingle Bells" and other Yuletide favorites with the legendary American group Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, to promote the Flecktones' Grammy-winning CD Jingle All the Way.... |
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Brooklyn, New York. Sweet and Low Hemispheres Magazine September 1, 2009 (Scroll down to find article.) ...By enhancing overtones present in ordinary vocalizations, a xöömei singer produces multiple pitches simultaneously. The eerie sounds are said to imitate nature as experienced on the Tuvan steppe: The low-pitched drone called kargyraa evokes the lowing of a yak, while sygyt, a shrill whistle, resembles the wailing of the wind.... |
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With the Sounds of Khoomei Tuva-Online May 1, 2009 One of the most interesting chamber concerts last week in Krasnoyarsk was a performance by the group "Alash" together with the khoomeizhi Radik Tyulyush.... |
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Tuvan Tunes Chicago Weekly, April 23, 2009 ...Did the University [of Chicago] host a didgeridoo competition or rent a few elephants, you ask? Surely not - in reality, Alash, a professional Tuvan throat singing group, and a motley group of students and aficionados produced the thundering roars.... |
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Tuva Performers Light Up von der Mehden The Daily Campus, April 1, 2009 ...the talents of Tuva and the art of throat singing ... were on display and in full force straight from the heart of the Siberian plain to Storrs ... |
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Alash at SXSW Time, March 25, 2009 Coverage of the popular music festival South by Southwest (SXSW) briefly highlights Alash, who appear 3 minutes and 52 seconds into the video. |
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Kongar-ol Ondar Everything2.com Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar was born in 1962 and first learned his musical craft from his uncle. ... |