Tuvan avant-garde singer Sainkho Namtchylak is truly unique (you can read her story about halfway down this article). Since she's based in Vienna, she is not a frequent visitor to New York; therefore, I leapt at the opportunity to attend this concert arranged by Rothenberg to take advantage of her presence in the wake of a trip to perform at a Mongolian music conference.
Virtuoso wind player Rothenberg is an attraction himself. Combining their considerable talents, this duo is almost a quartet, since both members are capable of producing two notes at once: Namtchylak with her overtone-singing, Rothenberg with multiphonics on bass clarinet.
The first half of the evening was Namtchylak solo. She kicked it off with a roughly ten-minute tour-de-force display of her unusually broad range of vocal techniques, which seems improbably coming from any one person, much less this elfin woman. Low growls -- I mean really low...
Virtuoso wind player Rothenberg is an attraction himself. Combining their considerable talents, this duo is almost a quartet, since both members are capable of producing two notes at once: Namtchylak with her overtone-singing, Rothenberg with multiphonics on bass clarinet.
The first half of the evening was Namtchylak solo. She kicked it off with a roughly ten-minute tour-de-force display of her unusually broad range of vocal techniques, which seems improbably coming from any one person, much less this elfin woman. Low growls -- I mean really low...
- 11/23/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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