He's a very sensitive musician. He's been in a lot of villages, and he understands folk music. Working with Sergei, we've found a lot of similarities between some of the sounds of Russian music and Tuvan music. We want to show the musical colors of different times in Tuva, from old times to modern times. When you hear Tuvan music played on the flute, you hear it differently, and it shows a different side of the music.
Horses have a harmonic rhythm.
People who ride horses absorb the horse's rhythm physically into their bodies, and this rhythm is reflected in music. The music is continuous, but it doesn't break down into square phrases. Melodies can be elongated they're a function of the length of a singer's breath. You can hold notes for as long as your intuition tells you they should be held. The phrase lengths of our melodies are based on a singer's intuition, not on preserving a strict metric sense in the music.