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| | By the Throat |
 | | While Yat Kha bring humour, an avant-garde punk sensibility and rock dynamics to their traditions, Huun Huur Tu's music is, in the live arena at least, all-acoustic, combining classical guitar with a variety of traditional bowed instruments such as the cello-like 2-stringed igil, the four-stringed byzaanchi and the 3-stringed doshpulur. |
| | Yat Kha now includes percussionist Zhenya Tkach'v, who plays a large kengyrgy drum (borrowed from the Lamaist Bong Po religion) and Alexei Saaia, who contributes electric bass and saws away at the cello-like two-stringed morinhur in a juddering style that hints at his classical training. |
| | The first Yat Kha album Anthropophagia, (1993), was an experimental electronic 'world beat' project involving only Albert and the Russian musician Ivan Sokolovski, but each subsequent recording has seen an expansion of the line-up, reflecting in the development of their sound. |
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