KONGAR-OL ONDAR PROMO PHOTO World Music Tuvan Throat Singing Back Tuva Future

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Description:
– Fantastic vintage 1999 KONGAR-OL ONDAR PROMO PHOTO!!!
– Authentic original publicity/press pack photograph provided by the record label.
– From the files of a defunct music magazine.
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The legendary Tuvan throat-singer Kongar-ol Ondar emerged in 1985 as the founder of the Tuva Ensemble, quickly establishing himself as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the sygyt throat-singing style. Upon winning top honors at UNESCO’s 1992 International Festival of Throat-Singing, Ondar rose to international renown, subsequently recording with Western artists including Frank Zappa, Mickey Hart and the Kronos Quartet. The solo effort Genghis Blues followed in 1995, trailed by Echoes of Tuva a year later; in 1999, Ondar resurfaced with Back Tuva Future, a collection of progressive worldbeat featuring appearances by Willie Nelson, Randy Scruggs and even the late physicist/Tuva aficionado Richard Feynman.
Though steeped in the roots of Tuvan folk sounds, Back Tuva Future is anything but a traditional collection of throat music — over the course of tracks like “Tuva Groove,” “Kargyraa Rap” and “The Other Side of the Mountain,” Kongar-ol Ondar touches base with Western music idioms ranging from dance-pop to funk to bluegrass, and although not everything works, the results are never less than fascinating. Most interesting of all is “Where Has My Country Gone?,” a duet with Willie Nelson which proves once and for all that the human voice need not conform to standard definitions of beauty to achieve grace and power.
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