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In other news, I finally got around to playing with last.fm. I'm listing to a Tuvan set. There's a guy singing the blues, but with the gravelly, barely-human sound of the throat singer mixed in. Also, I learned that at some point, two of my favorite things in the world got together, presumably because they want to see what the inside of my skull looks like after it explodes.
Huun Huur Tu AND Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares!!
One is Tuvan throat singing with a bit of a contemporary sensibility, the other's the assymetrical rhythms and dissonant harmonies of Eastern European folk music.
Hmpf. Now the station just jumped from Yat-Kha (Tuvan punk!) to just regular old punk. Hmpf.

Music overload!

In other news, I think the Tuvan throat singing I've been listening to on last.fm is going to rot my brain. Mostly it's a pleasant drone, but sometimes someone pops up who sounds like a goddammed demon. Mind you, I like this music because it drills into your head. Like this singer. (Go to the Downloads to listen to her music.) I think part of it might be that the particularly creepy ones are women, since I'm not used to hearing them. Their voices are higher. Arjopa's particularly fun because her stuff starts out sounding all nice and folksy, and suddenly she turns into Mr. Hyde. Looks like she's just a German girl who learned from Albert Kuvezin of Yat-Kha (Who's also the shit.) Jealous!

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