15 Responses to ““Excerpt From Shamanic Healing Ritual””

1. Excalibear- May 9th, 2009 at 3:17 am

   Hello, Only other info I have is:
   Tuva, Voices from the Center of Asia Smithsonian Folkways, 1990
   http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2058

   http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/ethno/tuva/mp3/07.mp3

2. Excalibear- May 9th, 2009 at 3:19 am

   Hello, Only other info I have is:
   Tuva, Voices from the Center of Asia Smithsonian Folkways, 1990
   http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2058

   http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/ethno/tuva/mp3/07.mp3

   Hope this helps

3. Justin- May 9th, 2009 at 4:04 am

   Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia:
   http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=28632

   Just listened to some more of it. Damn fine album, I think. I’ll be buying it with my next paycheck.

4. Tom Fox- May 9th, 2009 at 4:36 am

   I believe it’s from here…

   http://avaxhome.ws/music/tuva-voices-from-the-center-of-asia.html

   a regular hmtl/mp3 link of it is here, so it’s gonna be from the Tuvan Throat singer: http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/ethno/tuva/mp3/Tuvan-Throat-Singers_07_Shamanic-Healing-Ritual-.mp3

5. brian t- May 9th, 2009 at 6:35 am

   It appears to be from a Smithsonian recording, “Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia”. The excerpt here (#125) is an exact match: http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=28623

6. Pia Guerra- May 9th, 2009 at 7:37 am

   Sounds like Finnish Runo singing.

7. Josh Samuels- May 9th, 2009 at 8:31 am

   That’s a Tuvan fellow named Alexander Davakai from the Smithsonian Folkways comp, “Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia”. (http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=28632)

   Did a quick search and it seems that’s the only thing available from him, although the liner notes may reveal who did the recording and give you a lead on where to find the full piece. (Or you could always contact Folkways and ask ‘em directly.)

8. timscience- May 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am

   it was Alexander Davakai and it’s from the Smithsonian.

   http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=28632

   Comics writing lords of the internet clearly don’t use Google.

9. Josh- May 9th, 2009 at 8:59 am

   A-ha! And after glancing at that page for just a half-second more, I see that in fact they’ve generously provided a PDF of those notes. (http://media.smithsonianglobalsound.org/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW40017.pdf)

   The folks to contact are at the end of the intro on page six. We also learn that: “The shamanic ceremony…was performed by an actor in the Kyzyl dramatic theater who has long and convincingly acted the role of a shaman in plays. Yet the boundary between artifice and authenticity is not clear, for the actor…comes from a hereditary line of shamans, observed many shamanic ceremonies in his youth, and is intrigued by the question of whether shamanic power really exists.”

10. timscience- May 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Actually, this was a trick to get us to listen to it, wasn’t it? You knew where it came from all along. It probably isn’t a healing ritual at all. Now we’re all going to grow an extra cock or something.

11. snailsnail- May 9th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/tuva.html

    Track 7

    “7. Excerpt from shamanic healing ritual: Performed by Ensemble “Amirak” (Gennadi Chash, b. 1959; Evgenii Oyun, b. 1958; Mergen Mongush, b. 1961).”

12. Nygaard- May 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am

    Huh. Rune drums are mostly used around the arctic circle aren’t they? I think I would recognize the sound of a sami noaide… But I don’t think the language is sami, and I don’t think they use any jangling metal. I remember seeing siberian shaman suits on display – covered in little bits of metal tied on leather strips. Absolutely awesome.

    Identifying the language of the speech at the end should pinpoint it? On comparision to recordings available on the web, it sounds like a siberian language, but I’m no linguist. That narrows it down to a subcontinent and a half (Eskimos are sometimes placed in the same gang). Good luck :)

13. Matt- May 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Found this excerpt by Alexander Davakai – http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=28632 – Certainly sounds similar. Hope that helps.

14. Warren Ellis- May 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Wasn’t that I couldn’t google it for myself, so much as I wanted to go to bed so I decided you people should do it for me. About time you made yourselves useful.

15. Nezrite- May 11th, 2009 at 2:09 am

    @ Timscience: If I leave my e-mail address, could I be contacted by all those who do indeed grow an extra appendage? I could probably convince my husband my “research” is in the name of “science” or possibly “shamanism…”