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Huun-Huur-Tu ( tyv, Хүн Хүртү, Hün Hürtü, ; rus, Хуун-Хуур-Ту, ) are a music group from
Tuva
Tuva (; russian: Тува́) or Tyva ( tyv, Тыва), officially the Republic of Tuva (russian: Респу́блика Тыва́, r=Respublika Tyva, p=rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə tɨˈva; tyv, Тыва Республика, translit=Tyva Respublika ...
, a
Russian federative republic situated on the
Mongolia–Russia border
The Mongolia–Russia border ( mn, Монгол-Оросын хил, Mongol-Orosiin hil, ; russian: Российско-монгольская граница, Rossijsko-mongoljskaja granica) is the international border between Mongolia and the Rus ...
. Their music includes
throat singing
Throat singing refers to several vocal practices found in different cultures around the world. The most distinctive feature of such vocal practices is to be associated to some type of guttural voice, that contrasts with the most common types of voi ...
, in which the singers sing both a note and its overtones, thus producing two or three notes simultaneously. The overtone may sound like a flute, whistle or bird, but is solely a product of the human voice.
The group primarily use native Tuvan instruments such as the ''
igil
The ''igil'' ( Tuvan: игил) is a two- stringed Tuvan musical instrument, played by bowing the strings. (It is called "ikili" in Western Mongolia.) The neck and lute-shaped sound box are usually made of a solid piece of pine or larch. The ...
'', ''khomus'' (Tuvan jaw harp), ''
doshpuluur
The doshpuluur ( Tuvan: дошпулуур, , ) is a long-necked Tuvan lute made from wood, usually pine or larch. The doshpuluur is played by plucking and strumming.
There are two different versions of the doshpuluur. One version has a trapezo ...
'', and ''dünggür'' (shaman drum). However, in recent years, the group have begun to selectively incorporate Western instruments, such as the guitar. While the thrust of Huun-Huur-Tu's music is fundamentally indigenous Tuvan folk music, they also experiment with incorporating Western instruments and electronic music.
History
The
khöömei quartet Kunggurtug ( tyv, Куңгуртуг, ) was founded in 1992 by
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg
Kaigal-ool Kim-oolovich Khovalyg; tyv, Ховалыг Кайгал-оол Ким-оол оглу, Chovalyg Kajgal-ool Kim-ool oglu, . (born 20 August 1960) is a Tuvan throat singer and co-founder of the Tuvan music group Huun-Huur-Tu.
A se ...
, brothers
Alexander
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
and
Sayan Bapa, and
Albert Kuvezin
Albert Budachievich Kuvezin (Russian: ''Альберт Будачиевич Кувезин'' / Tuvan: ''Күвезин Альберт Будачи оглу'', Küvezin Albert Budachi oglu, , alternatively spelled ''Kögeezin'' (Көгээзин, ) ...
. Khovalyg had been involved in the khöömei scene since 1979. Not long afterwards, the group changed its name to Huun-Huur-Tu, meaning "sunbeams" (literally "sun propeller"). The focus of their music was traditional Tuvan folk songs, frequently featuring imagery of the Tuvan
steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
or of horses.
The ensemble released its first album, ''60 Horses In My Herd'', the following year. The album was recorded at studios in
London
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and
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 ...
. By the time recording began for the follow-up, Kuvezin had left the group to form the more
rock
Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
-oriented
Yat-Kha
Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvan traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive ''kargyraa'' throat singing style, the '' kanzat kargyraa''.
Biography
Yat-Kha wa ...
. Kuvezin was replaced by
Anatoli Kuular, who had previously worked with Khovalyg and
Kongar-ool Ondar as part of the
Tuva Ensemble. The new line-up recorded ''
The Orphan's Lament'' in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
and
Moscow
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, and released it in 1994.
In 1995, Alexander Bapa, who had
produced the first two albums, departed the group to pursue production as a full-time career. He was replaced by
Alexei Saryglar, formerly a member of the
Russia
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n state ensemble
Siberian Souvenir
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. A third album, ''If I'd Been Born An Eagle'', recorded in the
Netherlands
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, followed in 1997. This time, in addition to the traditional folk music, the group performed some rather more contemporary Tuvan songs, from the latter half of the 20th century.
In early 1999, the group released its fourth album, ''Where Young Grass Grows''. For the first time on a Huun-Huur-Tu album, non-Tuvan instruments (except for the
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
) were featured, including
harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
,
tabla
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,
Scottish smallpipe
The Scottish smallpipe is a bellows-blown bagpipe re-developed by Colin Ross and many others, adapted from an earlier design of the instrument. There are surviving bellows-blown examples of similar historical instruments as well as the mouth-bl ...
(performed by
Martyn Bennett
Martyn Bennett (17 February 1971 – 30 January 2005) was a Canadian-Scottish musician who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music. He was a piper, violinist, composer and pro ...
) and
synthesiser
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...
. The album also features two excerpts of recordings made of Kaigal-ool and Anatoli singing whilst riding horseback on the Tuvan grasslands.
Huun-Huur-Tu participated in the 2000
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...
Music Live
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event, performing the opening and closing songs for a live, early morning broadcast from
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is an arts complex on the banks of the River Alde at Snape, Suffolk, England. It is best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival.
The original purpose of the Maltings was the ma ...
. The following year, the group released their first live album.
In 2003, Kuular quit the group and was replaced by
Andrey Mongush, an experienced teacher of khöömei and Tuvan instruments. Mongush's tenure with the group was short and in 2005 he was replaced by Radik Tülüsh, formerly of
Yat-Kha
Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvan traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive ''kargyraa'' throat singing style, the '' kanzat kargyraa''.
Biography
Yat-Kha wa ...
fame.
Huun-Huur-Tu signed with Beijing management company
Stallion Era in March 2015 and has since been to China for several performances.
Band Members
Collaboration
Since the group's inception, Huun Huur Tu has collaborated with musicians from many genres, such as
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...
,
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
John Watson Jr. (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996), known professionally as Johnny "Guitar" Watson, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. A flamboyant showman and electric guitarist in the style of T-Bone Walker, his recording career ...
, the
Kodo drummers, The Moscow Art Trio, the
Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...
,
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous wi ...
and Bulgarian women's singing group,
Angelite. Their recording "Eternal" is a collaborative effort with underground electronic musician,
Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo (born April 8, 1964) is an American record producer, mixer, programmer, DJ, remixer and recording artist, based in Los Angeles. The two-time Grammy nominee has worked with Seal, Coldplay, Paul Oakenfold, Alanis Morissette, Dido, Je ...
. Huun Huur Tu appeared on three songs on ''Bahamut'', the debut of New York-based blues group
Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine is a musical group based in New York City and led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wade Schuman. Their music is rooted in blues and also touches on folk, jazz and World music. The most recent lineup of the band circa ...
. In January 2010,
Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine is a musical group based in New York City and led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wade Schuman. Their music is rooted in blues and also touches on folk, jazz and World music. The most recent lineup of the band circa ...
also announced plans to record with Huun Huur Tu again.
In popular culture
''Huun-Huur-Tu''s Radik Tyulyush's song "Osku Urug" was featured in the American television series ''
Fargos
third-season episode "The Law of Vacant Places.".
In 2001, several of Huun Hur Tu's songs were featured on the soundtrack of "Atanarjuat THE FAST RUNNER", a 2001 Cannes Winner.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285441/ ]
Gallery
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File:Хүн-Хүртү ТМДТ 2016 01.jpg,
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File:Хүн-Хүртү ТМДТ 2016 04.jpg,
Recordings
Solo releases
* ''60 Horses In My Herd'' (1993)
* ''
The Orphan's Lament'' (1994)
* ''If I'd Been Born An Eagle'' (1997)
* ''Where Young Grass Grows'' (1999)
* ''Live 1''
lso known as ''Best * Live''(2001)
* ''Live 2'' (2001)
* ''More Live'' (2003)
* ''Ancestors Call'' (2010)
With
The Bulgarian Voices - Angelite &
Sergey Starostin Sergey may refer to:
* Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Sergey, Switzerland
Sergey is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Sergey is ...
:
* ''Fly, Fly My Sadness'' (1996)
With
The Bulgarian Voices - Angelite &
Moscow Art Trio
Moscow Art Trio (established in 1990) is a Russian trio comprising Arkady Shilkloper (French horn & flugelhorn), Misha Alperin (piano & vocals) and Sergey Starostin (vocals, clarinet & folkreeds), performing in the Classical/Jazz/Traditional mu ...
:
* ''Mountain Tale'' (1998)
* ''Legend'' (2010)
With various electronic artists (remixes):
* ''Spirits from Tuva'' (2002 & 2003)
With
Malerija (remix album):
* '' Huun-huur-tu Malerija'' (2002)
With
Samsonov Samsonov (russian: Самсо́нов) and Samsonova (russian: Самсо́нова; feminine) is a Russian surname derived from the name Samson. Currently, there are many variations in the name including Samsonov, Samsonenko, Samsonychev, Samsonyan ...
:
* ''Altai Sayan Tandy-Uula'' (2004)
With
Sainkho Namtchylak
Sainkho Namtchylak ( tyv, Сайын-Хөө Намчылак, russian: Сайнхо Намчылак, born 1957) is a singer originally from Tuva, an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation just north of Mongolia. She is known for her Tuvan ...
:
* ''Mother-Earth! Father-Sky!'' (2008)
With
Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo (born April 8, 1964) is an American record producer, mixer, programmer, DJ, remixer and recording artist, based in Los Angeles. The two-time Grammy nominee has worked with Seal, Coldplay, Paul Oakenfold, Alanis Morissette, Dido, Je ...
:
* ''Eternal'' (2009)
With
Vladimir Martynov
Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.
...
(chamber orchestra
Opus Posth, singer
Mikhail Stepanitch &
choir Mlada):
* ''Children of the Otter'' (2009)
Collaborations:
With
Marcel Vanthilt
Marcel Céline Gerard Edgard Vanthilt (; born 24 August 1957) is a Belgian singer and television presenter.Heerema,Y.Marcel Vanthilt – Presentator Marcel Vanthilit NCRV-gids 1, 5 till 11 January 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
Early life
Mar ...
:
* ''I Shoot Dikke Jo'' single (1995)
With
Kronos Quartet
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:
* ''
Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)'' (1997)
18. "Uleg-Khem" Trad. Tuvan arr. Steve Mackey (3:15)
With
Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine is a musical group based in New York City and led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wade Schuman. Their music is rooted in blues and also touches on folk, jazz and World music. The most recent lineup of the band circa ...
:
* ''
Bahamut
Bahamut, or Bahamoot ( ; ar, بهموت), is a monster that lies deep below, underpinning the support structure that holds up the earth, according to Zakariya al-Qazwini.
In this conception of the world, the earth is shouldered by an angel, w ...
'' (2007)
2. "It Calls Me" (Featuring Huun-Huur-Tu) Schuman (3:10)
8. "Everybody Loves You" (Featuring Huun-Huur-Tu) Schuman (6:16)
14. "Man Trouble" (Featuring Huun-Huur-Tu) Jaybird Coleman / Traditional (11:11)
With
Ross Daly
Ross Daly (born 29 September 1952 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in music of the Cretan lyra. Although of Irish people, Irish descent, he has been living on the island of Crete for over 35 years.
Biography
...
:
* ''The White Dragon'' - Alive (2008)
References
*http://www.spectrasonics.net/artists/htu.php
Friends of TuvaKongar-ool Ondar's Homepage*
ttp://www.myspace.com/huunhuur2 Huun Huur Tu's MySpace pagebr>
Washington Post Article "Tuvan Throat-Singers Perform Feats of Harmonic Acrobatic" January 15, 1996.Huun Huur Tu: National Geographic World Music bio"Throat Singers of Tuva Return to Eastman" January 11, 2006."Huun Huur Tu Throat Singers" University of Hawaii, February 2008.
External links
Huun-Huur-Tu official siteGreek television advertisement featuring "Eki Attar" from ''The Orphan's Lament''Directory of high-resolution photographs of the group*
Huun-Huur-Tu on On Point Radio, Aired January 13, 2006BBC Radio Awards for World Music, 2004Huun-Huur-Tu: Music Refracting Sunlight (Russia-IC.com article)Huun-Huur-Tu captivates audience with Tuvan music, October 2007Huun Huur Tu on Youtube*
ttp://www.kodo.or.jp/kodobeat/pdf/kb50.pdf Interview with Sayan Bapa, "Huun-Huur-Tu Interview" Kodo Beat, Autumn, 1999.br>
"Tuvan vocalists impress students" Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 12, 2004*
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YMwcKGFT8 "Videoclip - All one - Odugen Taiga (Mother Taiga)"
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Throat singing
Tuvan throat singing
Musical groups from Tuva
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Musical groups established in 1992