Altai Throat Singing

Do you mean it’s a combination of Russian and Mongolian and with a touch of Tibetan; toss in a little bit of Korean, Chinese and Japanese and your throat culture and some of the things I heard over seven years ago in the Buddhist temple. Yep, very unique.Show more

ALTAI THROAT SINGING. More: http://altayim.narod.ru/index.html (russian), http://altayim.narod.ru/index-eng.html (english)

throat-singing, a range of singing styles in which a single vocalist sounds more than one pitch simultaneously by reinforcing certain harmonics (overtones and undertones) of the fundamental pitch. In some styles, harmonic melodies are sounded above a fundamental vocal drone.

Originally called overtone-singing in Western scholarly literature, the identification by acoustical researchers of the presence of harmonics below the vocal drone in the deep, guttural styles as well as overtones in the more melodic styles led to adoption of the term throat-singing (a translation of the Mongolian term höömei). Throat-singing necessitates activating different combinations of muscles to manipulate the resonating chambers of the vocal tract under sustained pressurized airflow from the stomach and chest. As with operatic singing, the technique requires years of training to master..