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Where Young Grass Grows

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After seeing Kongar-ool Ondar live as a guest at a Flecktones concert, I knew I had to hear more Tuvan music. In search of "back Tuva future", I came across this and was more amazed than I had been when hearing Ondar(no offense to him though). I am now an avid Tuvan fan thanks to the talent of Huun-Huur-Tu!

I got this CD several years ago and love it. I own every Huun-Huur-Tu CD and it will never get old. I play this all day at work and freak out the co-works. This is a good CD for picking up chicks if you play it in you're tricked out Honda with a kickin system in the trunk. Everyone should own this, its amazing and will blow you're mind if you enough drop acid.

I have several favorites that I play while doing Art Therapy with adolescents in recovery. Pink Floyd's The Wall, Brian Eno's, Music for Airports and Huun Huur-tu, Where Young Grass Grows, continue to offer a perfect background for their art. I am replacing Where Young Grass grows because one of the young people wanted it.

People might choose to buy this for the exotic voices, but that's...backwards. This group creates accessible, beautiful music. The uncanny, ethereal singing is a special treat for the ear that exists in a context of lovely folk music, music that takes one to another place, a place of plains and horses.
That is not a flute! It is a human voice!

Phenomenal. I've been looking for some studying music while at college. This does just the trick. I am so relaxed while intent at the same time. I am very grateful for this CD's amazingness!

Tannu tuva, where huun huur-tu hail from, is one of the hardest places on the planet to access. This horse-based culture was wisely preserved by the soviet regime, allowing little interferrence from the world, east or west.

The lyrics should be read with the music, to convey the loneliness, yet rich friendship this culture produces. Entire lives lives without seeing an airplane.

This is what we all lived like 800 years ago. If you want a true glimpse into the art and life of what humanity used to be like, try this. It is so amazing that somehow this culture has been preserved, you can have your space-time anomolies- this is true time travel!

Tuvan throat singing might well be the next craze in world music: exotic enough to interest, yet still accessible to western ears. Huun-Huur-Tu have a style that's less westernized than others (like Ondar) performing in this tradition today. The best tracks on "Where Young Grass Grows" are the more authentic ones, even including two performed on horesback! The pentatonic melody lines, pipes, and strings should appeal to fans of Celtic music.