Current location:	The Mother ship
Current mood:	quixotic
Current music:	Yat-Kha

Tuvan Punk Rock
Last Christmas a friend of Edd's, knowing I was into Mongolian music, gave me a CD by Yat-Kha, a Tuvan rock and roll group. I immediately ordered their entire output via their website Yat-Kha.com. They do throat singing and rock and roll, both Tuvan music, and English language covers of things like "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Inna Gadda Da Vida". The music is startling and wonderful in equal measure. The English cover songs may be an aquired taste, but it's one well worth acquiring! There's lots of the remarkable horse rhythms (and camel rhythms and sheep rhythms.)

My favorite CD's are Tuva.rock, Bootleg, and Aldyn Dashkha, though the rest are pretty cool too. Stop by their website and listen to some of their marvelous music. I strongly suggest listening to the traditional music first, which kind of prepares the ear for their english language covers. You can listen to some of the cuts from their albums on their website.

I've heard that they're trying to organize a US tour. If you can help them find places to play, you can contact their booking agent on their website. I'm dying to hear them live!