Spirit of Altai, Altai Kai, Kara Su

site.mynet.com altaikai.narod.ru Musicians of the AltaiKai ensemble are virtuosos of Altai throat singing kai. They skilfully sing all styles and variety of kai and play traditional musical instruments of Altai people. Velvety, low sounds of karkyraa, fascinating hoomey and melodious sygyt sybysky, lively imitations of nature sounds (birds singing, purling of brook, animals voices) – also delicacy womens singing and womans throat singing, melodies of khomus (jews harp), topshuur and accordion all of that is AltaiKai. Traditional Altai songs about Motherland and its beauty, about bogatyrs and their past Power, about Altai people combined with joking tunes, dances and shaman mysteries. Narrators kaichy sing traditional, sacred in Altai heroic legends and eposes. All of that is AltaiKai. Producer and director – Urmat Yntaev, from a clan called Jabak. Musical director Emil Terkishev, from Tölös clan, styles of throat singing “kai”: karkyra, komei, sybsysky and sygyt; instruments: topshur, komus and shor. Radmila Terkisheva, from Maiman clan – vocal, instruments: jadagan, arba and tungur. Eremey Glazin, from Kypchak clan – karkyra and komei. Oyrot Otukov, from Köbök clan: könö kai, karkyra and sybsysky; instruments: topshur, komus and tokpok. Sarymai Urchimaev, from Kyp chak clan – vocal, karkyra and imitation of sounds and voices of the nature; instruments: topshur, komus and ergek shor, altyn shor and tuyuk shor. Instruments Percussions: arba, uzengi, tuigak, tungur (drum