Music / electronica

Like a bird or spirit, not a face


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Summary: Experimental music from the experimental singer from the south of Tuva.

Reviews (3)


The guardian

d. 21. Jan. 2016

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Robin Denselow

d. 21. Jan. 2016

"This, surely, will be the most unlikely fusion album of the year, mixing influences from the steppe with music from the Sahara ... The result is predictably curious. Namtchylak's voice switches from harsh-edged wailing and growling passages to sections where she is playful or demonstrates a high, controlled and unexpectedly soulful approach. The slinky African guitar lines and rhythm provide the perfect balance".


Songlines

d. 18. Mar. 2016

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Nigel Williamson

d. 18. Mar. 2016

"You take the world's foremost female throat-singer and the rhythm section from Tinariwen, put them in the studio with Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan for two days and they emerge with one of the most intriguing cross-cultural hybrids you've heard in a long time, as the twin nomadic traditions of Touaregs and Tuvans collide".


fRoots

2016 April

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Sarah Coxson

2016 April

"This is a startling and exciting bit of music-making comprising of territory-roaming, boundary-pushing genre fusion. From Namtchylak you can expect everything from guttural growls, piercing shrieks, strangulated creaks, coquettishly childlike or soulfully rich vocals and some staggering harmonics. She is a singer with an impressive seven-octave range. But there's also birdsong, desert blues throb, jaw's harp, menacing bass lines, sleigh bells and producer Ian Brennan's lurching, disorientating loops of ambient sound. It is at once artfully beautiful and gut-lurchingly strange. Amongst all the chaos are sudden moments of pure simple clarity such as sparse "The Snow Fall Without You", a spacious and beautiful song, with elegant vocals in English over [Eyadou] Ag Leche's sweetly melodic guitar lines and [Said] Ag Ayad's trademark Tuareg calabash percussion".