Albert Kuvesin and Yat-Kha: Poets and Lighthouses | CD review

(Yat-Kha Records)Albert Kuvesin has always been a maverick. He comes from Tuva, out on the borders of Siberia and western Mongolia, where he became an expert in the extraordinary local style of throat singing, which allows him to hold two notes at once while producing strange, deep growling effects. But he was never a typical traditionalist, and his recordings with Yat-Kha have included folk songs, furious electric guitar work and cover versions of songs by his western heroes, including Led Zep...

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