Aaaaugh.

[camwyn]

Finished watching Atanarjuat. Found myself thinking at several intervals that the music sounded awfully like Tuvan throat singing.

It was Tuvan throat singing. As a matter of fact, it was Tuvan throat singing from a group I'd heard before and actually recognized - Huun-Huur-Tu. I own a CD called Tuva: Voices From The Center of Asia. One of their singers performs on some of the tracks.

This is more disturbing than the time I recognized a humpback whale song. No, seriously, I was on a whale watching trip off Cape May and the ship captain had a CD of whale song on - and I realized after a few phrases of the singing that I knew that sound, and that he was using the same CD that I owned.

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[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

I own that same CD. I only wish my throat could do that. And I think hump back whale songs are pretty darn distinctive. Who *wouldnt* know what one sounds like that grew up in the 70's & 80's? Just wondering...

[camwyn]

I mean that I recognized a specific whale song. I have a few other humpback recordings; I was at the railing looking for dolphins and suddenly realized 'wait, this is the part of the CD that plays about four or five minutes in'. Very startling.

Re: songs of a feather flock together

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah. that would be different. you must have listened to that a lot to recognize with that degree of specificity! ;)

So, have you ever tried tuvan throat singing?

Re: songs of a feather flock together

[camwyn]

I used to put the CD on constant repeat to get myself a little peace at night in my college dorm. And no, I haven't tried; I'm not much good at singing Western style, so attempting hoomei would just frighten the horses and get nasty cracks from neighbours/family.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

HHT is quite the band, no? I recommend their albums, which I think are all on the Shanachie label. The title of one is The Orphan's Lament and the other is something like Forty Horses in my Herd, although I can never remember how many horses are actually in the damn title. Another entertaining facet of dyscalculia! A hundred horses? A thousand?

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[camwyn]

Sixty horses. I was looking up their albums last night. Might have to buy one soon to go with the Tuva sticker on my car.