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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Concert Preview >>
By JIM HIGGINS
jhiggins@journalsentinel.com
A little regional cooperation is blooming into a global music showcase this weekend on Milwaukee's south side.
With help and encouragement from fellow promoters in Chicago and Madison, the local Alverno Presents is staging the free Global Union World Music Festival at the Humboldt Park band shell.
"We wanted this to be during the day, we want families to come out and bring picnic,' said David Ravel, director of Alverno Presents, Alverno College's performing arts series.
Musical styles range from the accessible, such as Sara Tavares' lovely lilt, to the out-and-out unfamiliar, notably Yat- Kha's throat-singing, from Tuva in southern Siberia.
The response of English-speaking listeners to Yat-Kha's music has been "very warm," wrote throat-singer Albert Kuvezin in an e-mail. "Most popular questions are to explain how to do this sound by voice and throat-singing in general; (what is the) situation in Tuva; shamanism."
Sponsors Northwestern Mutual Foundation and American Family Insurance have kicked in plenty of euros to help make the free show happen. Each of the eight scheduled acts will play an hour, with DJs from WMSE-FM (91.7) spinning world music during stage changes.
And who would've thunk it: At least three of the acts in the festival have some heavy-metal DNA. Get ready, Milwaukee, to bang your cabeza.
SATURDAY
TAY-KHA, 2:30p.m. Albert Kuvezin left Huun-Huur-Tu, the Chieftains of the traditional Tuvan music, to create Yat-Kha, a group that combines Tuvan techniques (especially throat-singing) and instrements with the Western music that Kuvezin loves. At its best ("When the levee Breaks," Motorheads's "Orgasmatron"), the result is a swirling gutbucket sound that will remind some sophisticates of Captain Beefheart.
For fans of: Country blues, Motorhead, Tom Waits
Sample the sound: www.yat-kha.com/html/what/yat_kha_cds.php; check out "Orgasmatron."
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09/15/06
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