The Tuvan masters at home
A short film with the group in Tuva on where khöömei comes from and what it is imitating in the land around them.
A short film with the group in Tuva on where khöömei comes from and what it is imitating in the land around them.
Tuvan throat-singing ensemble from southern Siberia, formed in 1992 and the best-known carriers of Tuvan music beyond their own republic. Their khöömei draws several notes from a single voice and imitates the sounds of the land it comes from, wind, water and animals, a practice bound up with addressing the spirit-masters of those places.
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