Tuvan Blues

[David Casseres]

See also the unclassifiable New York band, Hazmat Modine, which has  
one excellent CD called "Bahamut."  On a number of tracks the Tuvan  
Throat Singers collaborate.  "They're just like us," sez the guy from  
Hazmat.  "They like to jam."


On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Charles Albert wrote:

> Paul Pena wrote Jet Airliner.......if you, as I do, loathe the Steve  
> Miller cover, check it out........Pena was an extraordinary  
> musician....
>
>
> love,
> cfa
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 12:19 PM, David Morris < fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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