“Throat Singing” from the Siberian nation of Tuva is one of the most remarkable phenomena in all world music; individual voices are trained to produce multi-note melody-and-drone combinations. I first heard this music as an example in one of the Cantometrics training tapes, back in the 1970s, and it was a revelation. A lot of […]
) Sirojiddin Juraev (also spelled Sirajoddin Juraev) comes from a lineage of dutar players in his native region of northern tajikistan, continuing the tradition from his father and grandfather. He studied music at the Music College in Khujand and at Khujand University, and after that under Abduvali Abdurashidov at the Academy of Maqom in Dushanbe, […]
The Aral Sea is one of the largest saline lakes in the world, and a fascinating part of the geography of Central Asia. Because the USSR diverted the rivers that feed it in order to support massive desert irrigation projects, the Sea has been drying up. It’s pretty ugly: T The primary effect of the […]