★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDHuun-Huur-TuAncestors Call - Huun Huur TuWorld Village2010 You wait for months for a new album of Tuvan throat singing, and then two come along at once. After Albert Kuvezin's entertaining experiments in mixing this extraordinary vocal technique with Japanese poetry and British musicianship, here's an exhilarating set from one of the finest bands working in this remote area of Asia, out on the Mongolian border...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-11-08
★★★★★
If I tell you that the main instruments used on this recording of traditional Southern Siberian music are igil, doshpuluur, xomus, tungur, xapchyk and byzaanchi, you'll probably guess that Huun Huur Tu are hardly prime contenders for the next series of 'Pop Idol'.....
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
They tour too much too convince me they're cowboys at heart. They're entertainers--cowboys set on quitting their day jobs. And good at it, too. Where Smithsonian's classic CDs of central Asian throat singing are forbiddingly culture-specific, these will grab world-music dabblers if not alternative stick-in-the-muds. The hook is the technique, in which a single vocalist produces two or three harmonics in perfect unison...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Huun-Huur-Tu, singer-instrumentalists from the tiny Asian republic of Tuva, may rope you in with the novelty of their throat-singing technique (in which a vocalist produces two or three notes at once, to otherworldly effect). Once you get past the freak appeal, you'll discover a rich, piercingly evocative musical universe on The Orphan's Lament.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The members of Huun-Huur-Tu continue to amaze with their acrobatic throat singing and the eerie, haunted overtones it produces. While this continues to be their trademark sound, it's easy to overlook the fact that they're also excellent instrumentalists and composers who have moved well beyond the traditional music of the region to create their own songs -- not all of which involve throat singing...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
With this album, the members of Huun-Huur-Tu prove beyond a doubt that they're the bridge between the past and present in Tuva: the past because they have deep respect for the tradition (utilizing traditional instruments such as igil and doshpuluur in addition to the wonderful ankle bones of sheep in bull testicles), and the present as they bring in contemporary elements (guitar and -- previously unknown in Tuva -- the concept of harmony singing)...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
From the first track, their second album, Orphan's Lament grabs your attention with "Prayer" -- the deep, unearthly, sounds of Tibetan Lamaist chant. Next they move to khoomei singing. Known in the West as "throat singing," the performer produces two or more high- and low-pitched tones simultaneously. The resulting sound -- somewhat eerie, somewhat haunting -- is a combination somewhere between the sounds of a long whistle and a Jew's harp...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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