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Transpacific Sound Paradise

Saturday, August 18, 2001

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A lot of folks think of the former Soviet Union as one big monolothic culture. Not ethnomusicologist Tristra Newyear, however. She's just returned from the outer reaches of the Russian Federation and as guest dj she plays rarely heard music from a range of minority cultures there. Her selections include traditional and neo-traditional as well as some curious manifestations of Western pop, including all your favorite Mongolian heavy metal.

Read Tristra's article about music in Buryatia today:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200001/0001a007.htm

Links to sites for artists featured on this show:

Torama http://www.torama.ru
Namgar
http://www.namgar.nm.ru
Uragsha
http://www.brama.com/yara/uragsha.html
Bolot and Nohon
http://www.music.ch/face/altai.html
Yat-kha
http://www.yat-kha.com

The remarkable and unique Tuvan/Russian roots/rock band Yat-kha (featured on the show) is touring behind their new cd Aloyn Dashka this fall. Many of their performances will be as accompaniment to the 1925 Russian silent film (set in Mongolia) Storm Over Asia. Their New York date (with the film) is October 14 at
Makor, 15 W67 St. For the full itinerary: http://www.concertedefforts.com/yatkitin.htm

This Week's Playlist

Subheads indicate region of origin for the music that follows

Mari El:
1. Meadow Mari Wedding Song
2. Mountain Mari Guest Song from "Mother Volga: Music of the Volga Ugrians" (Pan Records, Netherlands)
Tatarstan:
3. Yeget bulsan jirday bul (If you are a young man, then be like the earth)
4. Sandugacim balakaysin (Nightingale, you are so tiny)
5. Sarman buykalari tugay-tugay (The Sarman's banks are twisting)
From "Music of the Tatar People"
Mordvin Republic:
6. Torama: two traditional Moksha and Erzya songs
7. Torama's jazz project
8. Torama's pop project
9. Bakich Vidjai: Vai, kodamo chisj (Oh, what a good day)-Mordvin pop
Bashkiria:
10. Bibizada Suleymanova: Tatar song (overtone singing, regular singing, jaw harp)
Altai Republic:
11. Aleksei Kalkin: Maadai Kara from "Uzlyau" (Pan Records, Netherlands)
12. Bolot and Nohon: Altai Hymn (trad.)
13. Bolot and Nohon: When will the baatyrs rise? (comp. Bolot)
Tuva:
14. Shude: Tongue Twisters/Teve-haya (from their cd on Realworld)
15. Sainkho Namchylak: My Tuva (from Out of Tuva on Cramworld)
16. Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun: I am sitting on a steep slope (trad.)
17. Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun: While there is still taiga (trad.)
18. Yatkha: Kemchin
19. Yatkha: Teve-haya
20. Yatkha: Solun Chaagai Sovet Churtum (Beautiful Soviet Country)
21. Sainkho Namchylak: Tuva Blues
Mongolia:
22. Hurd: Bakharkhal (Object of Pride)
Buryatia:
23. Uragsha: Chingis Khaan
24. Uragsha: Eokhor
25. Uragsha: Traditional Song (from their cd on Global Village)
26. Namgar: "Modern Folk-lore" Pop
27. Namgar: Eokhor

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