Central Asian Tales

This project was created to introduce the Western audience to legends and fairytales from different Central Asian nations. In our 2005 tour, this project included Khakassian folk group Sabjilar, female throat singer Choduraa Tumat, and Altai storyteller Sarymai. This year, we decided to invite other musicians into the project. We hope that Igor Koshkendey from Tuva, Battuvshin from Mongolia, Sarymai from Altai, and Evgeny Ulugbashev from Khakassia will be able to show you the beauty of legends and fairytales from Central Asia.

Igor Koshkendey Tuva	Battuvshin Mongolia	Sarymai Altai	Evgeny Ulugbashaev Khakassia

 

 

Karashay

Karashay, translated from Tuvan means black tea-or tea without milk. We created a musical project where each musician can add their own color to the music. We are calling it 'add milk to the black tea' - make it tastier.
The only rule - the milk has to be fresh.

Süttüg-Shay (salty tea - süt means milk and shay is tea)

• 1 litre water
• 1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
• 1 tablespoon green tea
• 1 litre milk

Boil the water, tea and salt together. Add the milk and boil again.

Remember, if you hand someone a cup of tea (or anything else, for that matter) to always use your right hand only.
Similarly, when accepting and drinking the tea, use your right hand.
Serve in small bowls or cups.

Kurut

We always try to find some new sounds with different kind of musicians. Here you can listen experiments with Canadian drummer Peter Valsamis. We call this project - Kurut - very hard style tuvan dryed cheese.