Excellent
information on khöömei (xöömei) singing, complete with
sound spectrograms and videos is available at the site of our friend Steve
Sklar, with Quicktime Huun-Huur-Tu video clips (5-20Mb and well worth
the wait!). Steve traveled to Tuva in
1995, and shares his impressions in the Photo Gallery. He learned to sing khöömei, and has been
invited to give workshops - from Finland to Canada. Steve and his wife
Johnna perform with the band Big
Sky.
The
Friends of Tuva is an informal
international group of people interested in Tuvan culture, music and stamps.
They share this infectious fascination with Tuva with the late Nobel Prize
physicist Richard Feynman.
The Tuva Trader features
a plethora of Tuvan audio, video and books, available for ordering online.
A compilation of Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) is maintained and updated monthly by Kerry
Yackoboski. This veritable source of information can also be found on the
Usenet, in the discussion group alt.culture.tuva.
The newsgroup is a good forum to keep track of the latest news on the Tuvan
front, official and unofficial concert listings, and to make contacts with
overtone singing enthusiasts worldwide.
If you want to exchange ideas about the technical and other aspects of throat singing, join the new Yahoo! Tuvan Throat Singing Club!
Some excellent pictures of Siberian Shamans are posted on the website of The Novosibirsk Regional Studies Museum.
For those of you familiar with Genghis Blues, we learned with sadness of the recent passing of Kongar-ol Ondar's friend, TuvaPhile and Blues Man Paul Pena.
Throat singing is quite popular in Finland, and concert news on the Finnish front is regularly posted on the site of the Finnish Throat Singing Society. Sauli Heikkilä is a frequent contributor to the alt.culture.tuva newsgroup. The "French Connection" is represented by Phil Paschutine. Visit his khöömei website and get to know Prof. Tran Quang Hai.
The website of Ken Hyder will take you on a spiritual and musical journey.
A Scottish drummer and vocalist, Tuvaphile Ken has been involved in
numerous projects, including K-Space.
Connie Müller-Gödecke from Hamburg visited Tuva in 1993 and compiled a wealth of information on the Avantart site. You will find there a portrait of Sainkho Namchylak, RealAudio Files and more. This is the place to send your friends a virtual postcard from Tuva.
Meet our friends Saga Haruhiko and Todoriki "Riki" Masahiko from the Japanese Throat Singing Society. As musicians, they are also known as the duo Tarbagan.
Vershki da Koreshki has its
own page on the Web! This world band was the initiative of Alexei Levin,
in Amsterdam 1994. Kaigal-ool was a member in '96-'97, and is featured on the
first two recordings of VeDaKi.
Various articles about the art of khöömei and about our group are scattered all over the Web, and we will do our best to find them and post the links in this page. Deep in the Heart of Tuva provides historical and cultural background. We even found a humorous description of various singing styles, including guerrilla khöömei and bicycle kargyraa! Michael Hubbard, friend and contact from our Royal Festival Hall gig in London, is the music editor for the internet power search tool Open Directory. The place to look if you need web info fast!
Our Turkish friends are on the air at KKUP in the Bay area, California, with the program Orient Express. Director Ahmet Toprak of the Turkish Radio Hour mounted some pictures of a recent studio gig on Turkradio!
Rootsworld is an online
magazine of the world's roots, folk and pop music. Browse their regional menus
and special interests, and read the latest and hottest world music reviews
under the sun. And don't forget to stop at the site of Rootsworld reviewer and
MIT physicist John Cho.
If you like classical piano, visit the site of our friend Jon 'Jackie' Kimura Parker for a gig in your neighborhood, from Tasmania to Inuit territory. Be prepared for the unexpected, as this guy has much more besides classical up his sleeve...
the European Music Office is
a non profit organization representing major professionals and organizations
from all sectors of the European music industry.
Our links page wouldn't be complete without a link to the official site
of Frank Zappa, a dear friend
and master musician who left this world way too soon... Our song 'Ching
Söörtükchülerining Yryzy' (Song of the Caravan
Drivers) is dedicated to him. In addition, Patrick Neve's
Zappa Page features
a Musicians TimeLine of all the cats who played with FZ.