SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK
Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Pop/Art Song/Folk / Jazz Related Soundtracks / Eclectic Fusion • Russia
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With her shaved head and seven-octave range, Sainkho Namtchylak would stand out on any stage. Add her particular mix of Tuvan throat-singing and avant-garde improvisation, and she becomes an unforgettable figure. The daughter of a pair of schoolteachers, she grew up in an isolated village on the Tuvan/Mongolian border, exposed to the local overtone singing -- something that was generally reserved for the males; in fact, females were actively discouraged from learning it (even now, the best-known practitioners remain male, artists like Huun-Huur-Tu and Yat-Kha). However, she learned much of her traditional repertoire from her grandmother, and went on to study music at the local college, but she was denied professional qualifications. Quietly she studied the overtone singing, as well as the shamanic traditions of the region, before leaving for study further in Moscow (Tuva was, at that time, part of the U.S.S.R.). Her degree completed, she returned to Tuva
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Aura
Avant-Garde Jazz
1999
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Karmaland
Avant-Garde Jazz
2006
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Letters
Avant-Garde Jazz
1993
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Nomad
Avant-Garde Jazz
2007
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