Best * Live 2001
Best * Live 2001
Now also available in the US via CDRoots
Released
by Shanachie (SHA 66018), January
19, 1999.
Produced by Niall MacAulay and Sayan Bapa. Executive
Producer: Alexander Cheparukhin.
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg: vocal, throat-singing (xöömei,
sygyt, kargyraa), igil
Anatoli Kuular: vocal, throat-singing (borbangnadyr),
byzaanchi, xomuz.
Sayan Bapa: throat-singing (kargyraa, xöömei),
doshpuluur, igil, guitar, xomuz, synthesizer
Alexei Saryglar: vocal, throat-singing (sygyt), igil,
dunggur, tuyug, xapchyk.
Guest musicians Mary MacMaster, harp; Martyn
Bennett, Smallpipes, Overton flute; Guy Nicholson,
tabla; Garry Finleson, banjax; Dymitro Moracet:
synthesizer.
1. Ezir-Kara
2. Anatoli on Horseback, singing
3. Deke-Jo
4. Xöömeyimny Kagbas-la Men (I Will Not Abandon
My Xöömei)
5. Avam Churtu Dugayimny (Dugai, The Land of My Mother)
6. Dyngyldai
7. Highland Tune
8. Hayang (name of a hunter)
9. Barlyk River
10. Tarlaashkyn
11. Interlude: Sayan playing xomuz with water in his mouth
12. Sarala
13. Sagly Khadyn Turu-la Boor (It's Probably Windy on Sagly Steppe)
14. Ezertep-le Bereyin Be (Do You Want Me to Saddle You?)
15. Live recording: Anatoli and Kaigal-ool riding horses in Eleges
while singing
Audio clips of first 5 tracks at 
Reviewed in Rootsworld by John Cho.
For more liner note info, click here.
Released by Shanachie (SHA 64080)
1997, and JARO (4216-2), 1998.
Producer: Sayan Bapa. Executive Producer: Ted Levin
Recorded in Metslawier, Friesland, The Netherlands, June 1996.
Sayan Bapa, Anatoli Kuular, Alexei
Saryglar, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg
Guest artists: German Popov, shoor; Sergei Starostin,
kaliuka; Galina Surin, vocal; Kertik-ool Danzin,
bayan.
1. Taraan-Taraam
2. Don't Frighten the Crane
3. Dadyr-Todur (sound of a horse trotting)
4. Samagaltai (name of a Tuvan town)
5. Orai-la Boldu-la (Night is Coming and Evening is Coming)
6. Herder's Conversation (Starostin, kaliuka solo)
7. Bai-Taiga
8. Chylandyk (Khovalyg xöömei solo)
9. Daglarim (My Mountains)
10. Chadaana (name of a Tuvan town and river)
11. Dangyna (Princess)
12. Dönen-Shilgi (name for a four year old tan-colored horse)
13. Tozhular Yry (song from Tozhu)
14. Shaldyg-Xaya
15. Song of a Lonely Man
16. Erge-Shölee Biste Turda (When We Have Our Rights)
Audio clips of the first 5 tracks at
For more liner note info, click here.
Released by Shanachie
(SHA 64058) 1994, and JARO
(4204-2), 1997.
Producer: Alexander Bapa. Executive Producer: Ted Levin.
Recorded at Quad Recording Studios, NY and MosFilm Studios, Moscow.
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg: vocals, igil, khomuz (jew's harp);
Anatoli
Kuular: vocals, byzaanchi, khomuz; Sayan Bapa: vocals,
doshpuluur, marinhuur, guitar; Alexander Bapa: dunggur (drum),
dazhaanning khavy (rattle made from a bull scrotum and sheep kneebones),
amarga (horn of a maral -- a type of deer), bells.
Guest artist: Mergen Mongush, vocal (sygyt, track 13)
1. Prayer
2. Ancestors
3. Aa-Shuu Dekei-Oo
4. Eerbek-Aksy (name of a town close to Kyzyl)
5. The Orphan's Lament
6. Kaldak Khamar
7. Steppe
8. Borbangnadyr
9. Chiraa-Khoor (The Yellow Trotter)
10. Exile's Song
11. Eki Attar (Good Horses)
12. Irik Chuduk (The Rotting Log)
13. Sygyt
14. Agitator
15. Khomuz Medley
16. Ödugen Taiga
Audio clips of all tracks at
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Released by Shanachie
(SHA-64050) 1993, and JARO
(4196-2) 1996.
Producer: Alexander Bapa. Executive Producer: Ted Levin.
Recorded at Sound Photosynthesis, Mill Valley, CA, and The Watershed,
London.
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg: vocal, igil, doshpuluur, chanzy;
Sayan
Bapa: vocal, igil, Tuvan percussion; Albert Kuvezin:
vocal, guitar; Alexander Bapa: Tuvan percussion.
1. Sygyt (Lament of the Igil)
2. Mezhegei
3. Öske Cherde (Foreign Land)
4. Eshten Charlyyry Berge (It´s Hard to Be Parted From
a Friend)
5. Kombu
6. Khöömei (Khovalyg solo)
7. Kongurei
8. Fantasy on the Igil
9. Bayan Dugai
10. Tuvan Internationale
11. Kargyraa (Khovalyg solo)
12. Ching Söörtukchülerining Yryzy (Song of the Caravan
Drivers)
Audio clips of tracks 2 to 5 at
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