Huun Huur Tu @ Small World Music Centre
at once primordial, spine-tingling, and stunningly beautiful. - THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
TWO DATES AVAILABLE - Wed Nov 19th & Thurs Nov 20th
If you refer Wed Nov 19th, please click here
A legendary group who have taken the ancient music of the steppes of Tuva to a worldwide audience returns to Toronto after a four year absence. The unique, otherworldly power of Huun-Huur-Tu's traditional overtone singing is unlike anything else in contemporary music and makes for an unforgettable experience.
The whistling of the high-mountain wind forms eerie overtones and provides the basis of a postmodern statement. The repeated thrum of a string against wood and hide turns into a meditative, evocative figure straight from the avant garde. The descendents of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music out of some of the planets quirkiest acoustics.
The most distinctive characteristic of Huun Huur Tu's music is throat singing, in which the singers sing both the note drone and the drone's overtones, thus producing two or three notes simultaneously. The overtone may sound like a flute, whistle or bird, but is solely a product of the human voice.
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