Media examples from "Nomads in the Global Soundscape: Negotiating Aesthetics in Post-Soviet Tuva's Traditional Music Productions," The New Research of Tuva, Special Issue on Ethnomusicology, no. 2 (2017).


Media example #1: The Tuva Ensemble performing at “Xöömei-92,” the First International Symposium of Traditional Throat-Singing of the People of Tuva, Kyzyl (1992, from “Tuva TV Volume 2” distributed by Tuva Trader).

 

Media example #2: Sundukai Mongush performing “Tespeng Khoomei” from the Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia (1990, Smithsonian Folkways 40017).

 

Media example #3: Ensemble Amyrak performing “Medley of various throat-singing styles” from Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia (1990, Smithsonian Folkways 40017).

 

Media example #4: Xunashtaar-ool Oorzhak performing “Reka Alash” in the sygyt style (1968, Melodiya D-030773).

 

Media example #5: D. Damba-Darzhaa performing “Artyy Saiyr” in the kargyraa style accompanied by A. Laptan on byzaanchy spike fiddle (1968, Melodiya D-030773).

 

Media example #6: Huun-Huur-Tu performing “Mezhegei” from 60 Horses in My Herd (1993, Shanachie 64050).

 

Media example #7: Ay-Kherel performing “Eerbek-Aksy” (recorded in 1995 from Gennadi Tumat: My Homeland Ovür, 2000, PAN 2090) followed by Huun-Huur-Tu performing “Eerbek-Aksy” (from The Orphan’s Lament, 1994, Shanachie 64058).

 

Media example #8: Anatoli Kuular performing borbangnadyr next to a stream and then xöömei on horseback from Tuva, Among the Spirits: Sound, Music, and Nature in Sakha and Tuva (1999, Smithsonian Folkways 40452).

 

Media example #9: Huun-Huur-Tu performing Ödugen Taiga from The Orphan’s Lament (1994, Shanachie 64058) and Ancestor’s Call (2010, Green Wave Records 468108).