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I really like drones in music - bagpipes, sitars, etc. But the bass drones of throatsingers and digideroos are best - so powerful and primal.
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That was pretty bad-ass.
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Indeed. Whatever she’s selling, I’m buying.
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The part where the music cut out for a few seconds and it was just her singing made me shiver.
Hear that everyone? They got vowels. STFU about the vowel thing!
oral tradition during the Soviet era, in which it was suppressed.
Not that old chestnut. A search in the USSR Records database reveals 13 releases of Manas recitals between 1936 and 1987, including a 7 disc Manas Anthology from 1974. That database is not complete, so there were probably more.
It’s all too easy to make false claims about the suppression of folklore in the USSR when so little is known about it in the west.
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If you want to get yourself one of those awesome hats, or even your own yurt, check out Eugen’s ebay shop:
http://www.ebay.de/usr/eugen8807
If you want to go sleep in one (a yurt, not a hat), check out Ethno Village Almaluu:
https://goo.gl/maps/hZuD9wHrmXz
I am a happy customer of both of these companies.
-jeff
Has the feel of early Mouth Music (the band, not the style). This is a good thing.
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