"if you were a warm blanket or sharp knife, than at least i would have a use for you"

today i saw tuvan throat singers.

this is the group alash.

there isn't a lot i can say about throat singing, and certainly anything i can say about it is in purely musical terms that most people wouldn't be able to understand. i can barely understand the concept myself.

it doesn't seem real.

but people can create harmonic pitches with their voice...
and in this way, it is possible to sing two notes at once.

in tuva, they have camels, yak and reindeer.
those are three of my favorite animals.
i love reindeer. i love any animal with antlers.

anyway, tuvan throat singing is actually somewhat similar to the didgeridoo.
i play the didg, despite being female and unclean and ancient spirits and curses and blah blah blah

what most people don't realize, is that the didg is actually a "vocal instrument" in that it is really just warping vowel sounds that people create with their voices. it is like a jaw harp in that aspect, it is not really an "instrument" so much as it is a vocal modifier.

so the vocalizations require to play a didg is actually very similar to throat singing, especially breath support-wise.

which is curious, because all of the members of alash smoke.