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22 Mar 2011, 1:49 pm
23 Mar 2011, 2:26 pm
Are any of you familiar with Tuvan throat singing and folk music? It's one of the most fascinating, unique old music traditions out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXh5_G9NjJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyyhHFKI8E
Another thing I've been enjoying lately is Indian konnakol, which is an ancient "drum language" with incredibly complex rhythms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINneylEo0U
Yes, I love Tuvan throat singing. The song in that first video sounds so sorrowful. I've been trying to learn to throat sing, or to do something vaguely similar. I can make some rather unusual vibrating vocal sounds but I don't think I could ever do overtones well, haha.
I hadn't heard the term Konnakol before, but that is also interesting.
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23 Mar 2011, 2:29 pm
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23 Mar 2011, 3:25 pm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrH8TpTURM[/youtube]
I like this one, it's catchy, even though I have no idea what he is saying.
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23 Mar 2011, 9:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXh5_G9NjJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyyhHFKI8E
Another thing I've been enjoying lately is Indian konnakol, which is an ancient "drum language" with incredibly complex rhythms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINneylEo0U
It's really interesting how their instruments resemble a Chinese Erhu. As a matter of fact, it would be interesting to do a cladistic analysis of string instruments, then compare it to a cladistic analysis of the corresponding languages and cultures. Does anyone need a doctoral thesis?
23 Mar 2011, 10:07 pm
25 Mar 2011, 9:54 pm
12 Apr 2011, 4:56 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QZk3Z0NXqc[/youtube]
And the German/Italian duet is cool too. 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyYqJyc-zk[/youtube]
12 Apr 2011, 10:26 am
13 Apr 2011, 9:55 pm
This is a song half in Manchu, half in Mandarin. Manchu is a Tungusic language, in the Altaic family (which means it's related to Turkish, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, and others) that has only about native 10 speakers left, in northeast China, but there are a couple thousand learning it. It's one of my favorite songs, so I had to share it. Hopefully someone likes it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0py_I25Q0ys[/youtube]
I'll give a rough translation of the first half of the song:
On the side of the city Baishan flows the Heilongjiang river
Between the mountain and river hardworking people grow generation by generation,
This kind act for the homeland future generations will never forget.
He says the same thing in Manchu as in Mandarin.
15 Apr 2011, 7:05 pm
Here's a song I just found, a Yakut song.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4L6pqFLoQA[/youtube]
There's a translation in the description.
18 Apr 2011, 6:28 pm
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