That trick contains something of the dissonance of harmonic singing (though Tuvan throat singers don't whistle Dixie, or anything else – they just sound like they've got stereo vocal chords double-barreling out of a singular throat).
Jonathan Mitchell's arts feature "Paul Pena's Kargyraa Moan" is composed of terrific notes: ethereal short-wave radio waves, an international treasure hunt, a serendipitous used record store discovery, a ruined Discman, and howls of frustration that, in harmonic convergence, turn sweet. Eventually, "Big Old Jet Airliner" lands in Central Asia for some Tuvan throat singing. There's a lot of story here.
Jonathan Mitchell is a marvel, a musician in producer's clothing. All his work is informed by his training, background, and talents in music. Here, interview is overlayed on interview, producing a richness of time and location that's astonishing in five-and-a-half minutes. And all the while, Mitchell is masterfully orchestrating a quartet of otherworldly songs.
The sheer focus of "Kargyraa Moan" is its broader limitation, though. It's a microscope set in the laboratory of Studio 360's "The Voice" edition, and MDs will be required to build out something more than the accompanying Host i/o to land this Big Ol' trippy tremolo back onto the public radio dial. Mitchell has "carried me too far away" to come back to regular melodic music so fast. Maybe Jonathan will refashion this vision for wider redistribution
Review of Paul Pena's Kargyraa Moan
Geo Beach
Posted on April 08, 2005 at 01:22 PM
Can you whistle and hum at the same time?
That trick contains something of the dissonance of harmonic singing (though Tuvan throat singers don't whistle Dixie, or anything else – they just sound like they've got stereo vocal chords double-barreling out of a singular throat).
Jonathan Mitchell's arts feature "Paul Pena's Kargyraa Moan" is composed of terrific notes: ethereal short-wave radio waves, an international treasure hunt, a serendipitous used record store discovery, a ruined Discman, and howls of frustration that, in harmonic convergence, turn sweet. Eventually, "Big Old Jet Airliner" lands in Central Asia for some Tuvan throat singing. There's a lot of story here.
Jonathan Mitchell is a marvel, a musician in producer's clothing. All his work is informed by his training, background, and talents in music. Here, interview is overlayed on interview, producing a richness of time and location that's astonishing in five-and-a-half minutes. And all the while, Mitchell is masterfully orchestrating a quartet of otherworldly songs.
The sheer focus of "Kargyraa Moan" is its broader limitation, though. It's a microscope set in the laboratory of Studio 360's "The Voice" edition, and MDs will be required to build out something more than the accompanying Host i/o to land this Big Ol' trippy tremolo back onto the public radio dial. Mitchell has "carried me too far away" to come back to regular melodic music so fast. Maybe Jonathan will refashion this vision for wider redistribution