Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo-Eternal

To suggest that Eternal, a stunning marriage of the traditional Tuvan music of Huun Huur Tu and the electronica of Carmen Rizzo, is a haunting listen would be an understatement.
The pieces of music are released as though they are fugitive spirits from the trees, as though recently-released sacred prisoners from the remote corner of the Russian Federation have given their voices to flight for the first time.

Huun Huur Tu’s dedication to preserving the Tuvan musical custom is rich and inspiring. Playing rare instruments, such as the lute-like doshpuluur or traditional Tuvan drums, the quartet proves the ultimate caretakers of the soaring mountains and ancestral traditions of their people.
Rizzo, recruited by the group for a fresh approach, has produced for the likes of Seal and Paul Oakenfold. Together with composer/arranger Mark Governor, Rizzo took to the project of Eternal hoping to make more out of it than a simple remixing of Tuvan music. The objective was for a new tradition to surface.

Eternal supplies that new tradition, well exceeding a standard East-meets-West vibe by invoking the true spirits of melodic imagination to produce pieces of art that will stand the test of time.The process to create Eternal was a sort of “sonic meeting of the minds,” with Huun Huur Tu recording some of their signature songs in traditional format. The pieces, many of them hymns to the forest and sacred

mountains of Tuva, were sent fifteen time zones away to Rizzo. The producer immersed himself, pushing the project further and collaborating fully with the four to institute original soundscapes and even completely fresh performances.

Eternal is a record of transformative influence and spiritual intensity. In Rizzo’s hands, these gorgeous compositions intensify and expand with magnificence and integrity.
“Dogee Mountain” is the perfect example of this depth. As a track dedicated to Tuva’s scared Buddhist site, “Dogee Mountain” was extracted from Huun Huur Tu’s “Orphaned Child.” The lamentation of the original piece is transformed through the use of electronic tone and spiritual correlation into something more inspired.

"""Huun Huur Tu provienen de Tuva, una república de la Federación de Rusia, un país escasamente poblado siberiano de los pastizales, los bosques boreales, y sierras. Música Huun Huur Tu s cuenta con instrumentos raros y preserva y desarrolla algunas de las más antiguas formas del mundo de la música. El género más conocido de la música de Tuva es xöömei (cantar con la garganta) en el que se produce naturalmente sonidos vocales sorprendentemente crear texturas únicas y armónicos. Colaboraciones más allá de la banda s van desde Ry Cooder a The Kronos Quartet y Frank Zappa. El nuevo disco de eterna es una colaboración con el músico electrónico y productor discográfico Carmen Rizzo (Niyaz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Paul Oakenfold, Seal), que transforma a esta música antigua en una atractiva mezcla de ambient electrónico, ritmos exóticos y exuberantes texturas acústicas. Este maravilloso álbum que lleva a través de una secuencia onírica con una reverencia cadenas antigua colisión con los teclados de gama baja, mientras que las voces inquietantes de Huun Huur Tu aullido a través de los pulsos fascinante. Un viaje musical para todos los que buscan escapar.""""

1 Ancestors Call
2 Mother Taiga
3 Saryglar Maidens
4 Saryglar Reprise
5 Dogee Mountain (Interlude)
6 In Search Of A Lost Past
7 Orphaned Child
8 Tuvan Prayer

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