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It's a conical tube you blow into at the same time as throat-singing to produce two noises at once.
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Traditional songs were sung, and men performed throat-singing.
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Ms. Lord finds strength through traditional music, in a virtuosic throat-singing contest with herself.
Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012
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With its vast size, its history of migrations and conquests, russia contains a myriad of small ethnic groups—from the reindeer-herding Chukots and the shamanistic Nentsy to the Muslim Avars and the throat-singing Tuvans.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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With its vast size, its history of migrations and conquests, russia contains a myriad of small ethnic groups—from the reindeer-herding Chukots and the shamanistic Nentsy to the Muslim Avars and the throat-singing Tuvans.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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With its vast size, its history of migrations and conquests, russia contains a myriad of small ethnic groups—from the reindeer-herding Chukots and the shamanistic Nentsy to the Muslim Avars and the throat-singing Tuvans.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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With its vast size, its history of migrations and conquests, russia contains a myriad of small ethnic groups—from the reindeer-herding Chukots and the shamanistic Nentsy to the Muslim Avars and the throat-singing Tuvans.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Here he combines bleating free jazz, blasts of punk, spastically shouted Indonesian lyrics and the occasional throat-singing outburst.
Nightlife Agenda 2010
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High points have included recordings made in a temple on the Mekong in Laos, the bizarre Yasothon Rocket Festival, featuring 50ft-long missiles fired for fun by drunk students ( "there was not a health and safety officer, not a fireman, not an ambulance, not even a hose in sight"), a Siberian throat-singing festival and, perhaps most surprisingly, jazz yodelling in Switzerland.
Andy Kershaw: 'Amateur psychologists say Rwanda screwed me up. It didn't: I just reported it' 2010
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The combination of Tuvan throat-singing and the blues is not to be believed -- or missed.
Boing Boing 2008
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