Tuvan Blues
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 11:19:41 CST 2008
Pena, a blind musician, was captivated by the sounds of Tuvan
throat-singing, which he encountered for the first time on a
late-night shortwave transmission. He taught himself to throat-sing,
and met with and befriended Kongar-ol Ondar, forming the band Genghis
Blues, which merged throat-singing with Delta blues in a marvellous
and haunting way.
Podcast:
http://cdn.libsyn.com/spiderweb/SOTW022.mp3
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