On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 06:47:05 -0500 Herb Levy <herb@eskimo.com> wrote:
For me, very few Westernized uses of throat-singing by vocalists (& I'd include most of the more poppish "World Music" recordings in this category) have the depth of the Tibetan religious stuff. A couple of improvisors, Sainkho Namtchylak & Jaap Blonk for two, use some of the technique from time to time to very different effect.
Here in da Bay Area, a lot of performers are using throat singing and harmonic singing to varying degrees. A very good teacher of the techniques, runs one of the better venues, Tuva Space in Berkeley, so his influence among others has helped spread its popularity. I've been doing a bit of throat singing in my performances lately, but I'm far from expert at it, and find that I can do it for only a minute or so before it gets painful. I've heard that Tuvan throat singers often completely lose their voices at a fairly young age; I don't know if that's true, but would rather not find out first hand. -- | josephzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code Silence: the John Cage Discussion List |