Best - Live

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Jaro Voice series presents a worldwide spectrum of music for voice. If you have not heard Tuva throat singing before, prepare to be stunned.

As the title suggests, Huun-Huur-Tu is captured here at their best - not only repertoire-wise, but also on a concert that (as I've been lucky to witness myself) is an almost otherworldly experience.

Imagine 4 men, in their beautiful national costumes, sitting behind various native instruments. When the singing commences, for some first minutes you don't believe your ears. A deep bellowing voice like from the bottom of a barrel, vibrant and unbelievably low, fills the air (and interior of seats). Assuming you're not familiar with the tradition of throat singing, it's unlike anything you've heard in your life - at least in the field of vocal exertion. Then, as the concert progresses, an even more stunning style of singing is unleashed - Barbang-Nadyr, sounding like a cross between a gurgling stream and birdsong. Seemingly uncontrollable, it's let to flow in continuous unarticulated patterns to the very likeness of a mountain stream.

Huun-Huur-Tu have waited for years for that perfect concert to record, and finally it's been captured here, a shimmering 45 minutes of centuries of tradition and voice-craftsmanship.