Tuvan throat singing trio Alash will be performing at the Weis Center on Wednesday, Feb. 8. There will be a free lecture, Q&A and demonstration with the artists on Tuesday, Feb. 7 from 3-4:20 p.m. in ...

Watch a short clip of Tuvan ensemble Alash perform their music while on the road. 'Achai' is available August 25, 2017, on CD and Digital. Stream/download/purchase ...

From the what-I-did-on-my-weekend department comes this little report: I caught the Alash Ensemble, a four-man group from Tuva, in central Asia and was more than a little blown away by its music, ...

While the republic of Tuva is to throat-singing as the republic of Tennessee is to country music, the Folklife Festival is drawing its singers not just from Tuva, but from western Mongolia and ...

The lyrics to the group’s “Fly Fly My Sadness,” the title track of their 1996 album featuring the Bulgarian women’s choir, (Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares/The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices) were ...

It sounds like a handful of hummingbirds taunting an ogre: a fluctuating, high-pitched series of harmonics and a low, guttural drone coming out of a person’s voicebox at the same time. It’s eerie.