Where: Auditorio Marcelino Camacho
Madrid
28014
Spain
Madrid
What: Huun-Huur-Tu @ Auditorio Marcelino Camacho
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“an amazing work of harmonical unity and beauty.” - Jazz Thing “The longer you listen to the vocal caprioles, the more fascinating becomes this acrobatic onomatopoeia.” - Natur “It is perceivable why famous artists like Frank Zappa and the Kronos-Quartett have already worked with the throat singing artis from the heart of Asia.” – BNN “… a musical miarcle!” - New York Times “Singer Khovalyg is the Pavarotti of throat singing.” - Newsweek “When they roar up from their deepest larynxes, the overtones start dancing and soar to transparent, barely palpable melodies. … The throat singing tradition from Tuva develops an archaic fascination from which you can hardly withdraw.” - Karlsruhe Kurier “Huur-Huun-Tu … gave us an ‘enlightening‘ impression of an alien world.” - AZ
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Who: Huun-Huur-Tu
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Huun-Huur-Tu is a throat singing group from Tuva, Russian Federation situated north of Chinese Turkestan, west of the Mongolian border. The Tuvan throat singing technique allows one person to sing in a way that makes the listener hear different/multiple notes at the same time from the same singer. This is done by manipulating the harmonics to amplify different overtones within their mouth/throat/belly when they are singing, and is referred to as khoomei in its native tuva.
In 1992 Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Alexander Bapa, his brother Sayan Bapa, and Albert Kuvezin founded the quartet Kungurtuk, as a means of concentrating on the presentation of traditional songs of their homeland. The musicians later decided to rename the ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu. After the first album 60 Horses in my Herd (1993), Kuvezin left the band to form the more rock-oriented Yat-Kha. Kuvezin was replaced by Anatoli Kuular , who had previously worked with Khovalyg and Kongar-ool Ondar as part of the Tuva Ensemble. In 1995, Alexander Bapa, who had produced the first two albums, departed the band to pursue production as a full-time career. He was replaced by Alexei Saryglar. In 2003 Kuular quit the band and was replaced by Andrey Mongush.
The name Huun-Huur-Tu (sometimes spelled without hyphens) translates literally to “Sun Propeller,” a Tuvan term referring to the special kind of light you can see streaming down through the clouds at dawn or down through densely leaved trees at noon.
Their website is http://www.huunhuurtu.com