Throat Singing

2022-04-09

I first heard about Tuvan throat singing through Richard Feynman, and I wanted to share one of my favorites here, though I'm no connoisseur:

I can find the lyrics only in a YouTube comment, which I've cleaned up here:

With wide open land,
With beautiful long song
With the sound of the horse fiddle
It's a native land of Mongolia.

With pearly white gers (nomadic housing)
With five precious treasures
With five kinds of livestock
It's a steppe of Mongolia.

Listen closely — all the cultures of the world have their own beauty.

Related:

• Francis Bebey plays the one-note flute