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Headliners
Siberian nomad rock
An original member of Huun-Huur-Tu, the Tuvan troupe largely responsible for introducing overtone singing to the American public in the 1990s, Albert Kuvezin felt increasingly restricted by the ensemble's studiously "folkloric" style. So he went off and founded his own group, called Yat-Kha (after a zither-like Mongolian instrument) and devoted to the subtle infusion of traditional Tuvan throat-singing with Western influences.
Yat-Kha had recorded two albums and was gaining fans throughout England and Europe when Kuvezin fell on some seriously hard times. Robbed of his passport, forcibly deported from Hungary, roughed-up by members of a Slavic mob and badly crumpled in a car wreck, he was confined to a hospital bed in his native Tuva (the remote region of southern Siberia that borders Mongolia) and spent his long days of convalescence listening to American rock and country music.
The happy result? "Re-Covers," Yat-Kha's just-released CD, on which you can hear the Allman Brothers' "Ramblin' Man," Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," Santana's "Black Magic Woman" and Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks," among others, all wondrously filtered through the impossibly deep, woofer-rattling tonal modulations of Kuvezin and his troupe.
7 p.m. Monday at the Iron Horse in Northampton. $15 advance; $18 at the door. 586-8686
It's Latino Heritage Month. You could celebrate by attending the 2006 Miss Latina Pageant, Sept. 27-29, at the Big E or you could go to the free performance by comedian Marga Gomez tonight at Mount Holyoke College's Blanchard Campus Center Great Room.
Gomez's brief stint as a Hollywood actor movie fans might recall her appearance in the 1998 big-budget underwater sci-fi bomb "The Sphere" in which, cast as a computer expert, she sets a plate of muffins in front of Dustin Hoffman and recites several memorable lines ("I'm going to see if I can't clear out the transducer ports") before being killed off in the wake of a jellyfish attack on Queen Latifah has provided much source material for her stand-up routines ("Why would a computer expert be serving muffins?"). Her show tonight will include highlights from these as well as commentary on Latina soccer moms, gay cowboys, Angelina Jolie's effect on global warming, Shakira's navel plus some personal tips on cooking in motel rooms.
8 p.m. Gay, straight, bi, trans and questioning welcome.
DAN DeNICOLA 09/22/06
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