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	Genghis Blues Store
		At once whimsical and profound, Genghis Blues chronicles the journey of blind blues legend Paul Pena as he discovers the ancient art of Tuvan throat singing and participates in the national competition.
		Genghis Blues is a testament to the transformative powers of music.
		The blues and the eerie, often-guttural sounds of throat singing make a natural match, one that simply bewitches with the clear overtones and melodies, while the guitar and Tuvan banjo offer simple, but very plaintive, accompaniment.
	www.scs-intl.com /trader/GBstore.htm (703 words)

	Salon Movie Review \| "Genghis Blues"
		For its first half-hour, "Genghis Blues" unfolds more or less like a conventional documentary, as Belic, who produced and shot the film with his brother, Adrian, introduces Pena and the engaging eccentrics who either accompany him on his Asian adventure or help make it happen.
		That "Genghis Blues" has won audience-favorite awards at the Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco and Florida film festivals indicates that the revelations have hardly undermined the documentary's feel-good sensibility.
		The drama in "Genghis Blues" revolves around Pena's participation in the contest, but the most poignant sequences occur when Ondar, who veritably radiates joy -- one interviewee hyperbolically describes him as being (to Tuvans) JFK, Elvis and Michael Jordan "all rolled into one" -- takes Pena and his pals on a tour of Tuva's countryside.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/07/09/genghis/print.html (1027 words)

	Six Degrees Records - Soundtracks
		The whole story is told in the compelling documentary Genghis Blues which was a Sundance Audience Award winner in 1999, an Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 1999, a winner at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1999 and has brought audiences to their feet across the world.
		Genghis Blues begins with "What You Talkin' About?," a jaunty acoustic blues track where Pena tells the story of discovering Tuvan throat singing, and then proceeds to demonstrate the growling, multi-voiced style known as kargyraa, while still playing a great Delta blues guitar.
		Genghis Blues may be the soundtrack of a movie, but it's also in many ways the soundtrack of Paul Pena's life.
	www.sixdegreesrecords.com /compilations.php?group=Soundtracks (3040 words)

	Everything Else In Review
		Genghis Blues has to be seen and heard to be believed.
		Genghis Blues is more than a great documentary; it's an inspiring story of one musician's drive and talent to overcome formidable odds to learn more than just a new set of chords or a new song.
		Genghis Blues is a powerful example of one man's ability to triumph over some pretty extreme obstacles.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-september99/everything52.html (1671 words)

	'Genghis Blues': Capturing Listeners in Genghis Khan Country
		And in 1993, when he learned that a group of Tuvan throat singers were touring the United States for the first time, he attended their concert in San Francisco and afterward introduced himself to the musicians and sang some of their traditional songs to them.
		Roko Belic's good-hearted, wonderfully revealing film "Genghis Blues" is the record of that arduous but triumphant journey, which Pena made with a small film crew and some friends.
		As "Genghis Blues" shows, the journey from San Francisco to Central Asia was fraught with difficulties.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/070999genghis-film-review.html (588 words)

	Genghis Blues (1999)
		The Oscar-nominated documentary Genghis Blues is a record of a friendship created by going out of the way, and of how music can bring two individuals from opposite sides of the globe together in unlikely harmony.
		Genghis Blues traces an American bluesman's journey to a faraway land, guided by the mysterious music he heard on a short-wave radio.
		While that alone would be sufficient ground for a compelling narrative, Genghis Blues is more than a mere travelogue or concert film — what makes the film so compelling is the highly personal approach employed by filmmakers Roko and Adrian Belic.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=46102&buy=open&PID=10089793&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (779 words)

	Genghis Blues
		This journey was the focus of the documentary "Genghis Blues".
		Paul is well known to Friends of Tuva as "Cher Shimjer" (Earthquake), one half of the band Genghis Blues (with Kongar-ol Ondar), and he is also known in the blues world and in the rock world.
		Genghis Blues is now available (as of December, 2000) on videocassette and DVD.
	www.fotuva.org /gb/index.html (419 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| From Mao to Mozart, Genghis Blues
		Genghis Blues tells the story of Paul Pena, a San Francisco-based bluesman who journeyed to the tiny Asian country of Tuva to enter a contest in the once obscure art of throatsinging.
		Paul Pena, a blind blues singer who had gigged with BB King and T-Bone Walker but never had solo career, was living alone in San Franciso, a near recluse after the death of his wife.
		Genghis Blues, directed and produced by Roko and Adrian Belic, is the story of that journey.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /33/globalvillage.html (1226 words)

	Genghis Blues
		Genghis Blues (Roco and Adrian Belic, 2000) is about the moment, rarely documented, when one cultural phenomenon influences another, in this case, when blues meets Tuvan multi-harmonic throat singing.
		A blind blues singer of Cape Verdian heritage discovered Tuvian throat singing on Radio Moscow SW in 1984 and hunted for an example of it for years.
		Genghis Blues screens for an exclusive and limited season at Cinema Nova, Melbourne, from December 7.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/11/genghis.html (656 words)

	Dancing About Architecture: Genghis Blues Essay
		Genghis Blues won the audience award at Sundance (and several other film festivals) earlier this year and, while I'd never bet on the Academy, it should receive an Oscar nomination for long-form documentary.
		Genghis Blues tells the story of Paul Pena, a blind San Francisco blues musician who travels to the autonomous republic of Tuva in eastern Siberia to participate in the biennial competition of the native throat singing style.
		This suits the gravely blues voice of Pena who incorporates it into the new music he is making and earns him the nickname "Earthquake" from the Tuvans, doubly appropriate considering his adopted home town.
	www.dancingaboutarc.com /essays/ussressay.html (659 words)

	TXReviews » Blog Archive » Genghis Blues
		This is the story of Genghis Blues — the story of the triumphal visit of Paul Pena to Tuva —; and you won’t see a better movie this year.
		Genghis Blues is the most magical movie of the year.
		Genghis Blues reminds us that movies, like children and music, have the power to stir the most cynical bean-bag of a heart.
	www.txreviews.com /movies/genghisblues.html (1069 words)

	Genghis Blues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the center of this campfire story, which won the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Festival, is the peculiarly Tuvan art of throatsinging, which involves isolating overtones of the human voice so that a single singer can produce layers of sound -- from a deep growl to a eerily soaring, melodic whistle.
		Pena has played with blues artists from John Lee Hooker to Bonnie Raitt, and he composed Steve Miller's hit "Jet Airliner." But when he came across a Tuvan song while monitoring Radio Moscow on his shortwave, something happened.
		The entire Genghis Blues phenomenon is enough to restore a world-music cynic's faith.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/08/26/GENGHIS_BLUES.html (769 words)

	BLUES ACCESS Online: Letters
		The subject of the film Genghis Blues, Pena is a self-taught blues musician and throat singer, a complex and unique personality who has always followed his own muse.
		Paul Pena was born blind on January 26, 1950 in Harwitch, Cape Cod, not exactly a hotbed of down-home blues (or multi-tone singing, for that matter).
		Genghis Blues is the story of Pena’s journey to Tuva in 1995 and his participation in the contest.
	www.bluesaccess.com /No_43/genghisblues.html (1080 words)

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		A blind blues singer you've probably never heard of goes to an Asian country you've probably never heard of and wins a prize for singing in a style you've probably never heard of.
		Genghis Blues is a heart-warming film about Pena's trip there with a motley retinue, and how he became an overnight sensation among the Tuvan people.
		Some claim that the blues is a universal language, and if the footage in this film is any indication, it certainly is. Pena, playing his resonator slide guitar, immediately draws a crowd wherever he goes, singing a combination of delta blues and Tuvan throat-singing styles.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_genghis_blues.html (563 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Genghis Blues
		Except for Pena's salty language, Genghis Blues is perfect for PBS, even with the slower pacing of the travelogue spots, during which one would customarily go fetch a beer or yak with the roommates.
		In one's hot fury at the monstrosity of the recording industry, it's possible to forget that technological miracle that allows the song of a Central Asian horseman to be heard in a San Francisco flat.
		Genghis Blues (Unrated; 88 min.), a documentary by Roko Belic, plays through July 14 at the Castro Theater.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/07.05.99/genghisblues-9925.html (808 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Genghis Blues Review - A Blues traveller
		If you believe that music is a universal language, please don't miss Genghis Blues, a scrappy, seat-of-the-pants documentary that follows a blind bluesman on a journey to the lost land of Tuva.
		Genghis Blues is quick, smart, often funny and very touching, particularly the scenes when Pena competes in the throat singing contest or when he sings in public places in Tuva and a crowd gathers.
		Genghis Blues is in English and Tuvan with subtitles.
	xjam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/G/Genghis_Blues/2000/02/25/752989.html (461 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Genghis Blues Review - A Blues traveller
		If you believe that music is a universal language, please don't miss Genghis Blues, a scrappy, seat-of-the-pants documentary that follows a blind bluesman on a journey to the lost land of Tuva.
		Genghis Blues is quick, smart, often funny and very touching, particularly the scenes when Pena competes in the throat singing contest or when he sings in public places in Tuva and a crowd gathers.
		Genghis Blues is in English and Tuvan with subtitles.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/G/Genghis_Blues/2000/02/25/752989.html (464 words)

	UNAFF 99: Genghis Blues
		The throatsingers were amazed with Pena's mastery over the Tuvan art form and insisted that he travel to Tuva for the next tri-ennial throatsinging contest being held in 1995.
		"Genghis Blues" is the story of Pena's relationship with this unique art, the art of throatsinging.
		Although "Genghis Blues" is the first of his professional efforts, he has made other films throughout his educational career.
	www.unaff.org /1999/Fgenghis.htm (319 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Genghis Blues (1999)
		Roko and Adrian Belic's Genghis Blues documents the moving 1995 journey of blind American blues musician Paul Pena to the remote Asian country of Tuva, nestled in the barren land between Mongolia and Siberia.
		Genghis Blues is not just about a blind American traveling to Tuva, it is about how music can bridge cultures, and in doing so, touch a number of lives dramatically.
		In this segment Roko and Adrian Belic offer some insight into their backgrounds, and how Genghis Blues ultimately became a combination "documentary and adventure." I found this to be a fine follow-up piece to the film, as the Belics discuss not only their filmmaking roots, but the origins of this documentary and the struggles involved.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1915 (995 words)

	Movie Review: 'Genghis Blues'
		This was the homeland of Genghis Khan, a place so obscure that it drew the interest of people like the late physicist Richard Feynman, who thought it would be a trip to visit a place with a capital city called Kyzyl.
		The Oscar-nominated documentary "Genghis Blues," now at the Melwood Screening Room in Oakland, demonstrates that Tuva may not be as remote as we think, and that no part of the world has a monopoly on strange and wondrous things.
		Paul Pena, a blind blues musician, has played with B.B. King and T-Bone Walker and wrote the Steve Miller hit "Jet Airliner." He lives in San Francisco, the son of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000303genghis4.asp (389 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Genghis Blues
		Except for Pena's salty language, Genghis Blues is perfect for PBS, even with the slower pacing of the travelogue spots, during which one would customarily go fetch a beer or yak with the roommates.
		In one's hot fury at the monstrosity of the recording industry, it's possible to forget that technological miracle that allows the song of a Central Asian horseman to be heard in a San Francisco flat.
		Genghis Blues (Unrated; 88 min.), a documentary by Roko Belic, plays through July 14 at the Castro Theater.
	metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/07.05.99/genghisblues-9925.html (808 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Genghis Blues \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		This smart, funny and ultimately uplifting filmed "diary" chronicles blind blues musician Paul Pena's 1995 trek to Tuva, a small country sandwiched between Siberia and Mongolia, and the numerous cultural exchanges that resulted from that trip.
		But in spite of their support, as well as that of his "guide," Tuvan performer Kongar-ol Ondar, Pena began to get cold feet when the day of the competition arrived — especially after being told that the song he was planning to perform has been "banned" by local authorities.
		"Genghis Blues" is not rated but would probably receive a PG-13 for profanity (including one use of the so-called "R-rated" curse word), brief athletic violence and a scene of animal slaughtering, which includes some gore.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,70000050,00.html (489 words)

	WadiRum Productions : Genghis Blues
		Genghis Blues was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
		For the next nine years he worked to produce similar overtones with his own voice and to incorporate throatsinging into his blues music.
		It is the story of a man whose struggle in life is not defined by conformity and rules but by an unquenchable curiosity, and love of music.
	www.wadirum.com /films/genghis_blues (379 words)

	Movie Info for Genghis Blues on MSN Movies
		Paul Pena is an American blues singer and guitarist who has worked with the likes of Bonnie Raitt and B.B. King.
		After several years, word of the American throat singer traveled back to Tuva, and Genghis Blues documents Pena's triumphant journey to Kyzyl, where he was invited to perform for a festival and symposium on traditional Tuvan harmonic singing.
		Genghis Blues proved to be an audience favorite in screenings at the 1999 Sundance, Rotterdam and San Francisco Film Festivals.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=82768 (247 words)

	Genghis Blues - Moviefone
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	Genghis Blues
		Genghis Blues touches the very core of the human soul -as great music does- and demonstrates with poetic simplicity how music can be the great cultural leveler.
		Though Genghis Blues is closer to the latter form, it does lead us unsuspectingly to a dramatic moment; although, unlike traditional direct cinema, it does not rely exclusively on this moment to hold the film together dramatically.
		The 'moment' is not Pena's musical performance at the Festival, where he wins over the Tuvan audience like a Prodigal Son, but rather several scenes later when the voice-over tells us that, "from this point on, things took a turn for the worse." Ondar breaks his hand in a scuffle with a local drunk.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/genghisblues.html (1384 words)

	Genghis Blues
		A blind blues musician with Cape Verdean parents, Pena makes his home in San Francisco, which is where he first heard the sounds of Tuvan throatsinging coming out of his ham radio.
		While there are many aspects of Genghis Blues — not always well integrated by first-time director Roko Belic — by far the most fascinating is the ongoing story of the unlikely friendship between the lumbering, clinically depressed bluesman and the beaming Tuvan superstar.
		It takes nearly 40 minutes for Genghis Blues to reveal its titular musical hybrid: Pena’s fusion of Tuvan vocals and blues guitar, strategically unleashed on stage during the festival, to the clear delight of the audience.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/g/genghisblues.shtml (762 words)

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