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Meïkhâneh records its new album in August and September 2021

Chants du dehors, chants du dedans -"Songs from the Outside, Songs from the Inside"

To be released in January 2022 on the Buda Musique label

Available in mid-December 2021 for crowdfunders only

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The Songs from the Outside and the Songs from the Inside echo what sings within us, whether we keep inside or share; what comes from us or what comes from elsewhere. These are the songs of introspection, songs of comfort, of invention and of dreaming. The need for inside when you're outside. They also evoke the call of space, the need to see the horizon, to breathe air and to feel the elements. The call of travel. The momentum towards the distance and towards others. In praise of nature. The need for the outside when you are inside.

Meïkhâneh is composed of Maria Laurent (vocals, banjo, tovshuur lute, transverse flute), Johanni Curtet (Mongolian overtone and throat singing, guitar, dombra lute, morin khuur fiddle), Milad Pasta (vocals, percussions).

Two guest musicians on bowed strings (viola and double bass) will add their colors to the arrangements: Dylan James on the doublebass and Pauline Willerval on the gadulka fiddle.

The recording and mixing are with the American sound engineer Bob Coke (Ben Harper, Souad Massi, Mukta, Daby Touré, Moriarty, Bashung, Noir Désir, JL Aubert, Jeff Beck, etc.) at Studio du Faune in Montauban-de-Bretagne (Fr).

Although the album will be released on a label, the entire artistic part (creation, recording, mixing) is produced by our organization, Association Cas Particuliers.

To help us, sharing information to your network is the best thing!

Financially, we offer several levels and rewards on HelloAsso platform:
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/association-cas-particuliers/collectes/coprod-meikhaneh-2021

Here is one video from the studio session:

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I am pleased to announce the publication of a special issue entirely dedicated to khöömii of the "Asian Music" journal, in which I participated:

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Transregional Politics of Throat-Singing as Cultural Heritage in Inner and Central Asia, a special issue
ASIAN MUSIC, Volume 52, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2021

Charlotte D’Evelyn, Guest Editor
Robert O. Beahrs, Andrew Colwell, Associate Guest Editors
Johanni Curtet, Assistant Guest Editor

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor, Ricardo D. Trimillos
  • From the Guest Editors, Charlotte D'Evelyn, Robert O. Beahrs, Andrew Colwell

Grounding Heritage

  • Cradle of Drone-Overtone and Timbre-Centered Music: Cultural -Landscapes of the Indigenous Peoples of the Altai Mountain Range and Its Neighboring Areas, Carole Pegg
  • Propriety, Property, and Heritage in the Performance of Mongol Khöömii, Andrew Colwell
  • Gifts of the Sygytchy-Sons: Tethering Melodies to Land, Kin, and Life Energy at the Khöömei Ovaa, Tyva Republic, Robert O. Beahrs

Transregional Responses

  • Khöömii, World Lists, and the Question of Representation, Johanni Curtet
  • Khöömii, Chooryn Duu, and Dissonant Heritage in Inner Mongolia, China, Charlotte D'Evelyn
  • (Re)Claiming a Vocal Vernacular: Revival and Modernization of Kömei in Contemporary Kazakh Music, Saida Daukeyeva

Afterword

  • Khöömei and Heritage: An Afterword, Theodore Levin
  • Khöömei—Ambassador to the World: An Afterword, Valentina Süzükei translated by Sean Quirk

Informations, order: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45261

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