California Throatsinger - Album 1
Martyn St-Michael is a guitar and flute player who uses “California Throatsinger” as his moniker for his Tuvan throat singing experiments. Throat singing is a difficult, precise way of using one’s vocal chords and mouth to create resonating overtones that blend together for an alien sound that hardly sounds like a human voice at all. This untitled album collects 10 of St-Michael’s improvisations in throat singing, sometimes a capella and sometimes with instrumental accompaniment. On “Oil Wars”, he sounds like a more extreme version of Captain Beefheart. Appropriately, “Energy” is the most aggressive track. Try “Overtoning” for a quick overview of what throat-singing is all about. Fascinating.
Downloads from the page below are in 128kbps MP3.
No Longer Available
Broken link.
Is there any other way I can get my hands on this? Thanks a lot.
Comment by Andrea — July 27, 2005 @ 3:38 am
Damn, it was up earlier today. I hope the link comes back. If not, I may send it to you if you give me your e-mail address.
Comment by Luke — July 27, 2005 @ 4:24 am
You can still reach his profile page, but the “Album 1″ link (or the “Album 2″ link, for that matter) doesn’t work right now for some reason. Some of the tracks listed on the above linked page under “Featured Tracks” are from Album 1.
Comment by Luke — July 27, 2005 @ 4:32 am
The link is working again.
Comment by Luke — July 30, 2005 @ 11:46 pm
Here’s a link that I found to seven of his tracks. Quality is 128 kbps
http://bodymindmagic.com/jampa.htm
Comment by Ofir — October 24, 2007 @ 6:40 am