Yat-Kha

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Yat-Kha
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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 active1991–present
Members Albert Kuvezin and others
Past members Ivan Sokolovsky and many others
Website http://www.yat-kha.ru/en/

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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Biography

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", after the yatkha (ятха), a Tuvan bridge 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]

Discography

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Yat-Kha in Germany, 2005

Albums:

Members

Current

Past

Appearing on Poets and Lighthouses with Albert Kuvezin (Voice, Acoustic Guitar)

Awards

References

  1. 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.
  2. AbanCommercials.com: Apple iPhone 15 Pro | Titanium TV commercial 2023