Mikhail Zhukov & Nikolay Oorzhak - Ioreel

About Mikhail Zhukov:
Mikhail Zhukov is a Russian drummer and percussionist, one of the "shadow leaders" of Moscow underground scene in the 1980s, who currently lives in Germany.
In the 1990s, Mikhail Zhukov started an extensive collaboration with Sainkho. Eventually, he departed from the jazz/avant-garde/free improv field towards ethnic fusion and world music, switching mainly to hand drumming. Some critics saw that as a disappointment, for instance, Andrey Soloviev wrote in his Essay of New Jazz, that "Zhukov's orchestra was a part of the nonconformist scene, but then Zhukov started playing the "Tuvinian card" and it all ended up as an ambiguous bunch of ethnic banalities." Since 1999, Mikhail has been working with Tuvinian shaman and throat singer Nikolay Oorzhak.
The artist moved to Germany in 2003 and had been playing with Ersatzmusika and the chamber ensemble Arpeggiato. In 2004, Zhukov performed with Sainkho as a part of Digital Mutations project at the Moers Festival. He is known as a virtuoso drummer and percussionist with unique performance technique, as well as the constructor of DIY percussion instruments (some of his creations ended up in the famous Mark Pekarsky collection).
About Nikolay Oorzhak:
Nikolay Oorzhak was born in December 1949, in the small village Khorum-Dag in western Tuva. After graduating from high school in 1964, he worked for four years as a shepherd, herding horses, sheep, and cows. There on the steppes, alone with his herds, he started producing sounds like his father and grandfather used to sing. This was Khoomei, or throat-singing. At that time, his only audiences were the horses, sheep, and cows.
In 1989 the First International Festival of Throat-Singing was held in the Tuvan capital of Kyzyl. Nikolay was awarded First Prize for Kargyraa style. At that time he already brilliantly performs in all the overtone singing (xorekteer) styles: khoomei, kargyraa, sygyt, borbangnadyr, ezengileer and became a Khoomeiji (Recognized Master of Khoomei) in his country. The same year he and fellow throat-singer Boris Kherly and scientist Zoya Kyrgys founded Ensemble Tuva. Meeting with great success, they toured internationally, including Norway, Sweden, Turkey and Mongolia.
In those days, it was common for such ensembles to include a dramatization of a shamanic ritual, and in addition to singing and playing with Ensemble Tuva, Nikolay portrayed the shaman. Elders often commented that he appeared authentic and suited for this role, and that perhaps he was meant to be a real shaman. Sometimes, after these performances, he felt dizzy and suffered headaches. He sought help from Oleg Toiduk, a well-known shaman. Oleg told him that Nikolay was destined to be a shaman, and was suffering the effects of energies sand talents that he needed to share with others for healing.
n Tuva, shamans often inherit their abilities, and Nikolay was no exception. There were shamans on his mother’s side, and her father was a famous shaman in the Sut-Khol region of Tuva. On this basis, Nikolay started his healing way. Observing his progress, in 1998 the pre-eminent Tuvan shamanism scholar Prof. Mongush Kenin-Lopsan invited Nikolay to work for his shamanic society Dungur.

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Fabulous............

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Спасибо ❤Thank you ! °V°

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You're welcome!

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@@mysticalvibes6976 This music is all so perfect, and such a great shaman singer ! i love it !! Thanks again :))❤

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How would I write Caucasian Shamanism to appear more Siberian or Ural looking ? I need it to be spelled in English still. Would it be Kaukazian Shamanizm?