Yat-kha
| Yat-kha | |
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 Yat-Kha live in the bread factory , Frankfurt am Main, October 13, 2005 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Kyzyl , initially Moscow |
| Genre (s) | Electronic music , rock music , post-punk , overtone and undertone throat singing , world music |
| founding | 1991 |
| Website | www.yat-kha.ru |
| Founding members | |
| Albert Kuwesin (since 1991) | |
| Ivan Sokolowski (1991-1993) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Albert Kuwesin (since 1991) | |
| Scholban Mongush (since 2005) | |
| former members | |
| Alexei Saaia (1993-2000, 2011) | |
| Lu Edmonds (partly under the pseudonym Akym) (1995, guest musician on Dalai Beldiri and Poets and Lighthouses ) | |
| Anai-Haak (1995) | |
| Aldyn-oll Sevek (1997 – approx. 2000) | |
| Mikhail "Mahmoud" Skripaltschichikov (approx. 2000–2003, guest musician on tuva.rock ) | |
| Sailyk Ommun (approx. 2000–2003, guest musician on tuva.rock ) | |
| Radik Tiuliush (approx. 2000-2004) | |
| Scipio (2003–?, At least until 2005, not anymore in 2011, but live again in 2017) | |
| Yevgeny Tkachev (1995-2019) | |
| Other guest musicians on the albums | |
| Kan-ool Mongush on the bonus tracks by Yenisei-Punk | |
| Steve Goulding on Dalai Beldiri | |
| Martyn Barker on Dalai Beldiri | |
little bell |
Martijn Fernig in Dalai Beldiri |
| Giles Perring on Poets and Lighthouses | |
Background vocals |
Melanie Pappenheim on Poets and Lighthouses |
Bagpipes (Scottish Smallpipe) |
Neil Cameron on Poets and Lighthouses |
| Sarah Homer on Poets and Lighthouses | |
| Simon Edwards on Poets and Lighthouses | |
| Stephen Warbeck on Poets and Lighthouses | |
Yat-Kha ( Russian Ят-Ха transcribed Jat-Cha ) is a band from Tuva , the singer and guitarist Albert Kuwesin (founding member of Huun-Huur-Tu ) together with the Russian avant-garde - composer and electronic musician Ivan Sokolovsky in 1991 in Moscow founded. Yat-Kha initially played a mixture of traditional Tuvan music with electronic music, later with modern rock music and post-punk , which is particularly characterized by Kuwesin's deep throat singing ( Kargyraa , Kanzat Kargyraa ).
Band history
Kuwesin and Sokolowski interwoven traditional Tuvan folk music with western rhythms and electronic effects. After a few tours and festival appearances, they named the project “Yat-Kha” after the Mongolian vaulted board zither yatga , which Kuwesin plays next to the guitar . Yat-Kha is also an ironic Tuvan slang expression for Tuva in Soviet times, which means something like “poor pig” or “little (stupid) brother”. In 1993 they released their debut album on Genera.
After this publication, Kuwesin and Sokolowski parted ways. Kuwesin, however, pursued the project further. With the departure of Sokolowski, there was a clear change in style: the electronic elements disappeared completely. Kuwesin teamed up with other musicians who played both Tuvan and classical rock instruments. Since then, Yat-Kha's music can be described as a crossover of Tuvan folklore and rock.
1995 Yenisei-Punk was the first album released as a band. On the original version of the album only Kuwezin Kargyraa sings , the Tuvan undertone singing . Two years later, a version of the album expanded by two pieces was published, on which, along with Kan-ool Mongush's vocals, Sygit , the Tuvan overtone singing, can be heard. Excluding the last two studio albums on which no overtone singing can be heard, the combination of both vocal styles with changing overtone singers should be retained until today. In 1996/1997 the band was the "lead actor" in the film Dyngyldai presented by Gerd Conradt and Daniela Schulz at the 27th International Forum of Young Films at the Berlinale . The music video of the same name contained therein won the first prize “Best Low Budget Video” at MIDEM in Cannes that same year.
With changing line- ups, Dalai Beldiri (1999) and Aldyn Dashka (2000) as well as In Europe Live 2001 Bootleg, two studio albums and one live album, followed. As the longest-standing band member after Kuwezin, the drummer Yevgeny Tkachev should be highlighted, who has been part of the band since the album Dalai Beldiri .
In the years 2000–2003 the band accompanied the silent film Storm over Asia (1928) with its own soundtrack at several live events in the USA and Europe.
With tuva.rock , a much heavier album was released in 2003 that contains metal elements. While the previous albums only sang in Tuvinian and Russian, this is the first time you hear English singing. In 2005 an album was released under the name Re-Covers , which consists exclusively of cover versions of pieces from different types of music, including rock, country and reggae. On the tour that followed, the live album Bootleg 2005 was created . The best-of album Time Freeze by the British band Asian Dub Foundation , released in 2007, features the piece Siberian Slengteng, a collaboration with Yat-Kha. In 2010 Kuwesin recorded the album Poets and Lighthouses with British musicians on the Scottish island of Jura . Although he is the only member of the band to be heard on the album, the album was released under the name Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha . In the same year, the best-of compilation The ways of nomad was released . This was followed by the live album Live At "Stray Dog Club" , which was recorded in 2011 and released in 2015. The last release so far was a live recorded single in 2018. Tkachev left the band in January 2019.
During the entire history of the band, Albert Kuwesin has been involved in numerous releases by other bands, including a .:
- on the track Shut Out the Devil with Your Own Voice on the album Hot Sounds from the Arctic by Russian jazz musician Vladimir Petrovich Resizki (1994)
- at the audio art project Earborn (1996)
- on the album Duren by the Russian rock band Alisa (1997)
- together with Aldyn-ool Sevek from Yat-Kha on the album Vihma by the Finnish band Värttinä (1998)
- on the album Города, где после дождя дымится асфальт by the Russian band Неприкасаемые (1998)
- together with Radik Tiuliush from Yat-Kha on the pieces Amba and Manusoloni from the album Love Trap by the Tamil-British singer Susheela Raman (2003)
- on the track The Absolute from the album Flight of a Dying Sun by the Norwegian metalcore band Purified in Blood (2012)
- on the track A Voice Has Power of the album Addis to Omega by the Ethiopian-British project Dub Colossus (2014)
- on the joint album Agitator with the Tuvinian band Hartyga
- on the track The Bee from the album Queen of Time by the Finnish metal band Amorphis (2018).
- on the album radio play of the project Blabbermouth (2019). (Blabbermouth consists of Lu Edmonds and Mark Roberts. The former was also a member of Yat-Kha and a guest musician on two albums in the past, see info box on the right.)
Evgeny Tkachev, in turn, published the solo albums Stihi (2008), Mantra (2013), New-age.om (2015) and Kudesa (2018) under the name Opycham .
Publications
LP = album, Si = single, S = studio recording, L = live recording, K = compilation
| title | year | LP | Si | S. | L. | K | annotation |
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| Antropophagia | 1993 | X | X | also released as a cassette with the title Khan Party and as a remastered version with the name Tundra's Ghosts (1995) | |||
| Yenisei punk | 1995 | X | X | Remastered in 1997 and re-released with two bonus tracks | |||
| Dalai Beldiri | 1997 | X | X | ||||
| Aldyn Dashka | 2000 | X | X | ||||
| Bootleg - Live in Europe 2001 | 2002 | X | X | Recorded live at concerts in France, Estonia, Belgium and Hungary in May - August 2001 | |||
| tuva.rock | 2003 | X | X | ||||
| Re-covers | 2005 | X | as Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha published | ||||
| Bootleg II - Live In Europe 2005 | 2005 | X | X | Recorded live at concerts in France and London in 2005 | |||
| Live at Meltdown festival in London 2005 | 2010 | X | X | ||||
| Poets and Lighthouses | 2010 | X | X | Even though the album was released as Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha , Kuwesin is the only Yat-Kha musician to be heard on the album. It was recorded by him with British musicians. | |||
| The ways of nomad (Best of) | 2010 | X | X | X | X | The compilation contains pieces from the albums Yenisei Punk , Aldyn Dashka , Bootleg - Live in Europe 2001 and tuva.rock . | |
| Live at The Stray Dog | 2015 | X | X | Recorded live in Novosibirsk in March 2011 | |||
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida / Love Will Tear Us Apart | 2018 | X | X | Recorded live in Brachwitz (Saxony-Anhalt) on November 11, 2017, limited to 300 copies |
Prizes and awards
- 1991 nameless prize donated by Brian Eno at the first Voices of Asia Festival
- 1996 - Grand Jury Prize from Radio France International in the "Pop and Rock of the East" competition
- 1997 - 1st prize for "Dyngyldai" (music video) in the low budget category, (directed by Gerd Conradt and Daniela Schulz)
- 1999 " German Record Critics' Prize "
- 2002 - Prize for the best club performance in the genre of ethno-music, Moscow
- 2002 " BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music " in category Asia / Pacific
- 2007 - “Golden Iria” award in the “Legends of Siberian Ethno-Music” category at the “Sayan Ring” Festival, Shushenskoye
- 2009 - "Golden Altai" award in the Best Singing category, World Music Festival in Altai
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.yat-kha.ru/en/biography
- ↑ http://www.yat-kha.ru/en/biography
- ↑ Booklet for the CD Time freeze from Asian Dub Foundation
- ↑ http://yat-kha.ru/en/news/show/id/106
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Vladimir-Rezitsky-Hot-Sounds-From-The-Arctic/release/3134857
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3p54/
- ↑ https://worldmusiccentral.org/tag/susheela-raman/
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Purified-In-Blood-Flight-Of-A-Dying-Sun/release/5094968
- ↑ http://www.dubcolossus.org/albums/addis-to-omega/
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Hartyga-Feat-Albert-Kuvezin-Agitator/release/9573945
- ↑ http://www.nuclearblast.de/de/label/music/band/diskographie/details/5301302.70915.queen-of-time.html
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Blabbermouth-H%C3%B6rspiel/release/13479455
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1647350-Opycham
- ↑ http://sketis-music.com/catalog/opycham-kudesa