| Grex > Oldmusic > #172: Music Recommendations for Gelinas |
| Music Recommendations for Gelinas | 
Mar 15 21:40 UTC 2004 |
Every now and again, people recommend music to me. Sometimes, I forget the recommendation before I can find the music. So this is a place to record those recommendations.
| response 1 of 11: |
Mar 15 21:41 UTC 2004 |
And?
| response 2 of 11: |
Mar 15 21:41 UTC 2004 |
Today, in party:
micklpkl: "throat singing" is a Central Asian speciality, where the
singers are able to produce harmonics and overtones of truly
amazing precision.
micklpkl: gelinas - see the Tuvan group Huun-Huur-tu and the style
"Khoomei" for examples
micklpkl: yeah, the Tuvan throat singers are incredible. I love to
hear them. Most of the time, I'm truly amazed that they can
produce those sounds inside one throat. :)
| response 3 of 11: |
Mar 15 21:42 UTC 2004 |
Ah.
| response 4 of 11: |
Mar 15 21:44 UTC 2004 |
There's also Yat-Kha, who put throat singing in sort of a rock framework.
| response 5 of 11: |
Mar 15 21:55 UTC 2004 |
Huun-Huur-Tu did a show at the Ark a few years ago (when I was still in Ann Arbor.) I thought it was a great performance but I'm not sure it'd be the sort of thing I'd sit at home and listen to. For a while Tuvan throat-singers were briefly fashionable among techno and house artists and samples from several ensembles found their way into a number of prominent records from those days (e.g. The KLF's "Chill Out") What struck me while listening to Huun-Huur-Tu perform were the elements of their music that echoed the nomadic lifestyles still practiced by many in Tuva and the fact that they were understandable as such despite the language barrier (e.g. many of the songs featured rhythms that mimicked the sound of a galloping horse's hooves.) The difference between the sound in the original context and the same sound inserted as a sample into a house or electronica track was something I found interesting to consider.
| response 6 of 11: |
Mar 17 04:25 UTC 2004 |
A couple more to check out: Gourds. There was also mention of a Spanish bagpipe band, but I lost it. :(
| response 7 of 11: |
Mar 17 18:23 UTC 2004 |
<krj backs up the dumptruck of Spanish bagpipe bands and spills it onto gelinas' front-yard :) >
| response 8 of 11: |
Mar 24 05:26 UTC 2004 |
Yeah, exactly --- there are an amazing number of Celt-Iberian bagpipe groups
releasing music nowadays. I *think* that time in party we were discussing
Xistra de Coruxo, one of a number of traditional accordion-gaita('pipe) combos
sharing and updating old field-collected tunes from the countryside.
The way I understand it is - there are two main areas you find traditional
gaita in Spain --- Galicia is represented by the majority of contemporary
musicians, dozens of traditional combos like Xistra de Coruxo, Requinta de
Xian, Os Terribles De Arousa, Noitarega, and fresh faces like Cristina Pato,
Susana Seivane, Carlos Nunez, Hevia, Jose Manuel Budino, (my favourite) Luar
na Lubre, not to mention the scores of other modern folk fusion bands like
Berroguetto, Carlos Nunez, Chouteira, Doa, Mutenrohi, etc. etc. The other area
is Asturia, where groups like Llan de Cubel and Asturiana Mining Company, oh,
and I think now that Hevia is probably Asturian, Avientu is another that I've
heard on the wonderful, if rare, set of compilations called *Naciones Celtas*.
<deep breath>
I listened to a Yat Kha disc because of Ken's reminder above --- 1999's DALAI
BELDIRI, and was really impressed. They seem to have melded an electric
element to the traditional music brilliantly. I loved it.
| response 9 of 11: |
Oct 10 01:23 UTC 2004 |
Add Gordon Bok to the list. :)
| response 10 of 11: |
Nov 12 17:39 UTC 2004 |
Unfortunately I don't have any Gordon Bok in loanable format: all my recordings of his are LPs. I think all I have is the trio Bok Muir & Trickett.
| response 11 of 11: |
Nov 12 22:25 UTC 2004 |
That's OK. I thought the concert was entertaining but I didn't feel an overpowering urge to explore his back catalog.