Altai Throat Singers

Altai throatsinging is traditionally used to accurately convey oral history by transmitting images into the audience s minds with sound. Three different types of throatsinging are demonstrated in this piece normal range with overtone, a base drone, and a whistlelike overtone. Music by the student s folk music group Echo, sponsored by the ethnocultural center Sacred Altai, directed by Svetlana Shatrovna Katynova. These talented young Altai musicians are, against great odds,