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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 09/22/06
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