Year: 2007
Record Label: Leo Records
Style: Free Jazz / Avante Garde
Musicians: Sainkho Namchylak (voice), Roy Carroll (electronics)
Review: With loops prepared in advance to complement percussive effects, improvisation and other parameters, Tuvan vocalist Sainkho Namchylak aligns with Irish electronics ace Roy Carroll for an unlikely cycle of events. On this duo endeavor, Namchylak’s Tuvan throat singing resonates with Carroll’s laptop manipulations and live electronics permutations. In a way, this session provides more credence to the advances and applications of electronic music and how it continues to advance within genres and numerous art-forms .
Supplanted by an organic vibe, the electro-acoustic design of this program consists of faint, tribal drumbeats, narratives, interweaving treatments and counterbalancing exchanges. At times Carroll provides a vast musical plane for Namchylak’s resonating chants. On the piece titled “Fonomania,” her multi-pitched droning generates an odd balance in contrast to Carroll’s plucking of what sounds like a stringed instrument of some sort.
During “Madness of the Night: (Part 1) Anger,” the duo ups the ante via a call and response format, spiced with streaming synth swashes and alien soundscapes. The artists carve out a vista that bridges Central Asian ethnomusicology with concepts that could have been introduced by John Cage and ultimately topped off with the electronics component. The overall presentation is dappled with a sense of antiquity that becomes distorted and amalgamated. To that end, it’s all rather fascinating…
Record Label Website: http://www.leorecords.com
Reviewed by:
Glenn Astarita
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