Yat-Kha
Aldyn dashka

  • Format: CD
  • Band: Yat-Kha
  • Title: Aldyn dashka
  • Band's Origin: SU / RU
  • Style: Folk, World Music
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2017
  • Recording Year: 1998-1999
  • Production Year: 2000/2017 C
  • Record Company: Lollipop Shop
  • Item's Number: LSCD 016
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  • EAN: without EAN
  • Weight: 92 g
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  • Visual: new
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  • Cover: new

Lollipop Shop Release Information



On the occasion of Yat-Kha’s 25th Anniversary Tour in November/December 2017, The Lollipop Shop proudly presents the re-release of the band’s third international album Aldyn Dashka (The Golden Cup). Originally scheduled for release on Wicklow/BMG (which also released their second album Dalei Beldiri in 1999), the album came out on Yat-Kha’s own imprint Yat-Kha Records (YAT 001). The album had been long out of print since it’s release in the year 2000. Recorded 1998 and 1999 at GMC (Helsinki), Kingsize (Chicago), Shaw Sound (London), The Gas Station (Toronto), and in Tuva & Moscow. Mixed and mastered at Wolf Studios, Brixton. Yat-Kha received the BBC 3 World Music Award 2003 for Aldyn Daskha.

The third album from Yat-Kha finds them very much refining the process begun on their first two albums. The throat singing remains the central focus, but their way of framing it in a wondrous mix of modern and ancient instruments has become very subtle indeed, whether it’s the reverse cymbals behind “Oy adym” or the programming and textures of “Chedi Tei” and “Takh-pakh chaskhy tan”. As before, the guitar plays a very important part, played by bandleader Albert Kuvezin, giving a real jolt (along with Alexei Saaia’s bass) to the acoustic lineup, and hurling it into another dimension, even though he doesn’t use distortion or power chords.

But the fact that six of the seven members sing is a certain indication that the most important thing is the throat singing, that Tuvan specialty which Kuvezin and company do so well. While comparisons with the best-known practitioners of the genre, Huun-Huur Tu, are perhaps inevitable, they’d be unfair. The clopping horse rhythms that typify Tuvan music (it comes from the fact that they rely on equine transport, as they have for centuries) are similar, but that’s it. Yat-Kha has their own style which acknowledges the past but doesn't bow to it – and looks forward into the 21st century. Think of this as the sound of the modern steppes, where Asia and the West really come together, and that strange, eerie overtone singing provides the soundtrack (Chris Nickson).


Tracklist



1. Oy adym (My Gray Horse) 3:40
2. Tozhu kyzy (Tozhu Girl) 3:33
3. Chorumal bodum (I Am a Traveler) 3:39
4. Kozhamyk (Ditty) 2:37
5. Chedi Tei (Seven Hills) 4:40
6. Tyva kyztar (Tuvan Girls) 3:46
7. Takh-pakh chaskhy tan (Spring Breeze) 2:47
8. Bai-la mongun (Rich Silver Mountain) 2:47
9. Oi moroz (O Frost) 3:40
10. Sambazhyktyn-yry (Song of Sambazhyk) 4:39
11. Khary Kyigy (The Call) 4:12
12. Aldyn dashka (The Golden Cup) 4:17