Yat-Kha
Yat-Kha
Tuvan rock band
Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvan traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive kargyraa throat singing style, the kanzat kargyraa.
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Albert Kuvezin leading Yat-Kha in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Tuva, Russia |
| Genres | Folk rock, tuvan music, overtone singing, ethnic electronica, heavy metal, |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Members | Albert Kuvezin and others |
| Past members | Ivan Sokolovsky and many others |
| Website | http://www.yat-kha.ru/en/ |
Yat-Kha was founded in Moscow in 1991, as a collaborative project between Kuvezin and Russian avant-garde, electronic composer Ivan Sokolovsky. The project blended traditional Tuvan folk music with post-modern rhythms and electronic effects. Kuvezin and Sokolovsky toured and played festivals, and eventually took the name “Yat-Kha,” which refers to a type of small, Central Asian zither similar to the Mongolian yatga and the Chinese guzheng, which Kuvezin plays in addition to the guitar. In 1993, they released a self-titled album on the General Records label.
Since July 21 2001, they have been performing a live soundtrack to Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 silent film Storm Over Asia.[1]
Their 1995 song "Karangailyg Kara Hovaa (Dyngyldai)" is featured in the Apple iPhone 15 "Titanium" commercial.[2]
Albums:
- Priznak Gryadushchei Byedy (1991)
- Khanparty (1992)
- Yat-Kha (1993)
- Yenisei Punk (1995)
- Tundra's Ghosts (1996/97) - remastered version of Yat-Kha released by Ivan Sokolovsky)
- Dalai Beldiri (1999)
- Aldyn Dashka (2000)
- Bootleg (2001, live)
- tuva.rock (2003)
- Re-Covers (2005)
- Bootleg 2005 (2005, live)
- Poets and Lighthouses (2010)
Current
- Albert Kuvezin (vocals, Throat singing, Guitar, Bass guitar, Chanzy, Khomus, Yat-Kha)
- Sholban Mongush (igil, vocal)
- "Theodore Scipio" (Bass guitar)
Past
- Evgeny "Zhenya" Tkachov (drums, Percussion)
- Radik Tiuliush (vocals, Throat Singing, Morin Khuur, Igil)
- Sailyk Ommun (vocals, Yat-Kha)
- Makhmud Skripaltschchikov (Bass guitar)
- Aldyn-ool Sevek (vocals, Throat singing, Morin Khuur, Igil)
- Alexei Saaia (vocals, Morin khuur, Bass guitar)
- Ivan Sokolovsky (Synthesizers, Percussion)
Appearing on Poets and Lighthouses with Albert Kuvezin (Voice, Acoustic Guitar)
- Simon Edwards (Acoustic Bass guitar, Double Bass, Marimbula, Mbira, Appalachian Dulcimer)
- Giles Perring (Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Harmonium, Backing Vocals, Drums, Percussion)
- Sarah Homer (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Recorder)
- Melanie Pappenheim (Backing Vocals)
- Lu Edmonds (Cumbus)
- Neil Cameron (Scottish Small Pipes)
- 1991 recognized by Brian Eno, one of the international judges at the first Voices of Asia Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 1995 French RFI "Decouvertes Est" prize for Yenisei Punk
- 1999 German Critic's Prize for Dalai Beldiri
- 2002 BBC Radio 3 "Award for World Music"
- Official Russian site
- Yat-Kha discography at Discogs
- Yat-Kha discography at MusicBrainz
- Ivan Sokolovsky
- Reality Film: Storm over Asia
- Donnelly, K.J. (8 April 2016). "Chapter 2: How Far Can Too Far Go? Radical Approaches to Silent Film Music". In Donnelly, K.J.; Wallengren, Ann-Kristin (eds.). Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 19. ISBN 9781137466365.