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.
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