Yat-Kha

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Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvinian traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive kargyraa throat singing style, the kanzat kargyraa.

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1 Biography
2 Discography
3 Members
- 3.1 Current
- 3.2 Past
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Yat-Kha was founded in Moscow in 1991, as a collaborative project between Kuvezin and Russian avant-garde, electronic composer Ivan Sokolovsky. The project blended traditional Tuvan folk music with post-modern rhythms and electronic effects. Kuvezin and Sokolovsky toured and played festivals, and eventually took the name “Yat-Kha,” which refers to a type of small, Central Asian zither similar to a Chinese Guzheng that Kuvezin plays in addition to the guitar. In 1993, they released a self-titled album on the General Records label.

After the release of Yat-Kha, Kuvezin and Sokolovsky parted creative ways and Kuvezin went on to release five other albums under the name Yat-Kha with other musicians (and less of an emphasis on electronics), beginning with Yenisei Punk in 1995, with morin khuur player Alexei Saaia (produced by Lu Edmonds). Sokolovsky issued a remastered version of the Yat-Kha album, with additional tracks, under the title Tundra's Ghosts in 1996/97.

Since 2001, they have been performing a live soundtrack to Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 silent film Storm over Asia. They may release a DVD of this version of the film with Reality Film.

[edit] Discography

Albums:

Priznak Greyushii Byedi (1991)
Khanparty (1992)
Yat-Kha (1993)
Yenisei Punk (1995)
Tundra's Ghosts (1996/97) - remastered version of Yat-Kha released by Ivan Sokolovsky)
Dalai Beldiri (1999)
Aldyn Dashka (2000)
Bootleg (2001, live)
tuva.rock (2003)
Re-Covers (2005)
Bootleg 2005 (2005, live)