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Huun Huur Tu at Copenhagen Jazz Festival

Courtesy of JazzDanmark | Posted on December 5, 2017

When

Thu, March 8, 2018
23:00

At Door

€120

About

Huun-Huur-Tu is a music group from Tuva, a Russian Federation republic situated on the Mongolian border.

Huun-Huur-Tu’s style could be best described as profoundly mysterious. This comes as a consequence of their traditional, ritual laryngeal chants descending from Central Asian land of Tuva. This unique song technique reside on developing an enthralling sound cosmos rich in undertones and overtones.

The members of Huun-Huur-Tu have devoted themselves to learning oId songs and tunes, but at the same time their performances reflect the values of globalization. The whistling of the high-mountain wind forms eerie overtones and postmodern statement. The repeated thrum of a string against wood and hide turns into a meditative, evocative figure straight from the avant-garde. The descendants of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music out of some of the planets quirkiest acoustics....

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