Xanadu by Ummet Ozcan. Full version here:

1927 cowboy record featuring throat singing. Arthur Miles would have been one of the many "also-ran" Jimmie Rodgers imitators who sang, played guitar and yodeled, if not for the throat singing. As far as we know, this was the only record he ever made. I read about it in a zine called "How did Arthur Miles learn to throat sing? And other musical mysteries," the first in a series that was eventually called Gut Bucket Research. Fascinating stuff.

Tibetan throat singing

Modern Viking Music : Tragedy of a Misunderstood Art

Immense respect for this man

(via The HU - Wolf Totem (Official Music Video)

The HU is a Mongolian folk metal band formed in 2016. Incorporating traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the morin khuur, the tovshuur, and throat singing, the band calls their style of music "hunnu rock", a term inspired by the Xiongnu, an ancient tribal confederation of uncertain origins, known as Hünnü in Mongolia. Some of the band's lyrics include old Mongolian war cries and poetry.

The HU - Song of Women feat. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm

Consider. The Mechanisms but if some of the crew could throat sing...

The Toy Soldier throat singing... Throat singing in Sleeping Beauty...

What do we think about this?

If you're neurodivergent you need to listen to this.

*furiously plays banjo in the middle of a battlefield amidst mortar bombardment*

“Aww shit, gonna need some backup. Any word on those throat singers? We need them here now!”

*Huun Huur Tu shows up in a van along with various other Tuvan, Mongolian and Buryat musicians and throat singers dressed in traditional Mongolian clothing.*

“Finally! Maybe this’ll give us a chance.”

Attention: This clip has flashing lights so be aware if you have Photosensitive epilepsy!

This goes perfectly with the stormy weather outside my window. Powerful! =D

Heavy rock from Mongolia, this is The HU. A killer blend of traditional instruments, rock band, and Throat Singing. Wikipedia has good info about the band. 

The video has 3 songs from last month at Pinkpop 2023 in The Netherlands. We have featured them a few times, but not in a long time. The last song in this clip is a killer we featured in 2019, Yuve Yuve Yu.

0:00 Upright Destined Mongol 5:03 Black Thunder 11:57 Yuve Yuve Yu

Links: Spotify,  YouTube,  Instagram,  Bandcamp,  E7 Music YouTube, 2019 NPR feature.

Let's check out a MV from last year:

Huun-Huur-Tu / Carmen Rizzo / Dhani Harrison - Boidus (Official Video) - the Clay Pipe Music aesthetic has reached Dark Horse Records

Dark Horse Records is proud to announce the release of Dreamers In The Field, the first-ever collaboration between Huun-Huur-Tu, Carmen Rizzo and Dhani Harrison. The album blends Huun-Huur-Tu’s trademark throat singing with traditional Tuvan instruments with the modern production and instrumentation of two-time Grammy nominated producer / musician Carmen Rizzo (Seal / Alanis Morissette / Coldplay) and Grammy Award winning musician Dhani Harrison. Recorded all over the world – from Los Angeles to Europe, and Russia to Harrison’s very own F.P.S.H.O.T. Studios in Henley-On-Thames – this beautiful album is mesmerizing from start to finish.

mafuyu can throat sing. she uses it sometimes to make n25 songs cooler lol

I've posted a few music videos from El Pony Pisador before (here's one post with three of their songs). The other night, I finally watched this video, where the group's banjo player, who has also mastered the skill of Central Asian Throat singing, explains a little bit about how it works, and the different styles and culture of throat singing around the world.

He's speaking Catalan, but if you turn on the closed captions ([CC]). you can choose between English, Spanish, and Catalan subtitles.

And here's a full video of one of the songs he referenced, with him throat singing in the choruses:

Numb vocal cover

Music Born of the Cold

Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq won the Polaris Prize in 2014 for Canada's best album of the year. Animism contained sounds never heard before in Canadian pop music: breathy throat singing, screeches, roars and other human sounds for which the English language has no names. Tagaq's music was ambiguous. She seemed a shamanic figure.

Suddenly, she and other throat singers were everywhere. Indigenous artist Caroline Monnet incorporated Tagaq soundtracks into her hypnotic art videos. Some touring rock groups hired throat singers as opening acts. For a time, no television variety program was complete without a guest spot for throat singers.

Tagaq may have seemed like a new and unique voice. But she had basically jazzed up a genre of Inuit music that has been performed on the land we now call Canada for thousands of years. Inuit throat singing, or katajjaq, is a distinct type of throat singing uniquely found among the Inuit. It is a form of musical performance, traditionally consisting of two women who sing duets in a close face-to-face formation with no instrumental accompaniment, in an entertaining contest to see who can outlast the other. One singer leads by setting a short rhythmic pattern, which she repeats leaving brief silent intervals between each repetition. The other singer fills in the gap with another rhythmic pattern.

The sounds used include voiced sounds as well as unvoiced ones, both through inhalation or exhalation. The first to run out of breath or be unable to maintain the pace of the other singer will start to laugh or simply stop and will thus be eliminated from the game. It generally lasts between one and three minutes. The winner is the singer who beats the largest number of people.

Originally, katajjaq was a form of entertainment among Inuit women while men were away on hunting trips, and it was regarded more as a type of vocal or breathing game in the Inuit culture rather than a form of music. Katajjiniq sound can create an impression of rhythmic and harmonious panting. Inuit throat singing can also imitate wind, water, animal sounds and other everyday sounds.

Notable traditional performers include Qaunak Mikkigak, Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt, as well as Alacie Tullaugaq and Lucy Amarualik who perform in the katajjaq style. Several groups, including Tudjaat, The Jerry Cans, Quantum Tangle and Silla + Rise, also now blend traditional throat singing with mainstream musical genres such as pop, folk, rock and dance music. 

Tudjaat (Madeleine Allakariallak and Phoebe Atagotaaluk) performed on the song "Rattlebone" from Robbie Robertson's 1998 album Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy. The album is composed of music inspired by Aboriginal Canadian music (including traditional Aboriginal Canadian songs and chants), as well as modern rock, trip hop, and electronica, with the various styles often integrated together in the same song.

To learn more, watch this video of Inuit throat-singing sisters Karin and Kathy Kettler from Canada. The sisters carry on the traditions of the elders from their mothers' village in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, which is located in northern Quebec.

Hurdy gurdy AND throat singing?! 😍😍