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Tuva-pop
The popularity of Tuvan overtone-singing has been growing for nearly two decades. You've probably heard it in movies and adverts. I've always liked it. I've seen Huun Huur Tuu in concert and, I have a compilation of traditional and recent stuff but, I wonder if things are going too far. It seems like Yat-kha is just doing covers of Western music with overtones thrown in. I don't object to experimentation. Yenisei-punk was fiendishly boss and the combination of blues and Tuvan-overtones was so staggeringly appropriate that key laws of physics would fail if it didn't happen. But doing Joy Division covers is not really that compelling to me.
Posted by Pace Arko on July 10, 2005 11:27 PM