Yat-Kha
Sign in to saveYat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvan traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive kargyraa throat singing style, the kanzat kargyraa.
Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Yat-Kha
- Musical artist.image
- File:Albert Kuvezin 03.jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Albert Kuvezin leading Yat-Kha in 2016
- Musical artist.landscape
- yes
- Musical artist.background
- group_or_band
- Musical artist.origin
- Tuva, Russia
- Musical artist.genre
- Folk rock, Tuvan music, overtone singing, ethnic electronica, heavy metal
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1991–present
- Musical artist.website
- http://www.yat-kha.ru/en/
- Musical artist.current_members
- Albert Kuvezin and others
- Musical artist.past_members
- Ivan Sokolovsky and many others
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Discography
- Members
- Current
- Past
- Appearing on Poets and Lighthouses with Albert Kuvezin (Voice, Acoustic Guitar)
- Awards
- External links
- References
Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Their music is a mixture of Tuvan traditional music and rock, featuring Kuvezin's distinctive kargyraa throat singing style, the kanzat kargyraa.
==History== Yat-Kha was founded in Moscow in 1991, as a collaborative project between Kuvezin and Russian avant-garde, electronic composer Ivan Sokolovsky. The project blended traditional Tuvan folk music with post-modern rhythms and electronic effects. Kuvezin and Sokolovsky toured and played festivals, and eventually took the name "Yat-Kha", after the yatkha (ятха), a Tuvan bridge zither similar to the Mongolian yatga and the Chinese guzheng, which Kuvezin plays in addition to the guitar. In 1993, they released a self-titled album on the General Records label.
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