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Sainkho Namtchylak

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Sainkho Namtchylak was born in 1957 and hails from Tuva, Siberia. Her music is an intertwined mix of tradition and innovation which draws by the Siberian and Mongolic music tradition to reach modern sounds, all tied by her pure and enchanting voice. She fell in love with music thanks to her grandmother and soon began studying both the traditional Tuvan repertoire and overtone singing, a singing practice until then reserved only to men.
She joined the experimental band Tri-O with which her vocal talent and marked melodic tendencies were best put to work. With this new music project, she traveled West for the first time even if it was with the first album Out of Tuva (1993) that she was noticed by the international music scene.

After the fall of the communist regime, Namtchylak made Vienna her base and began collaborating with international artists and to give voice to her artistic experimentations needs, releasing a series of albums focusing on free improvisation.
With the advent of the new Millennium also began a new phase of Sainkho’s music career. In 2001 she released with Ponderosa Music & Arts, Stepmother City which reflected on her ambivalent sentiments towards her move to Western Europe and established itself as a filter through which start to get to know and appreciate Eastern spirituality. The album was followed by Time Out in 2001 and Who Stole the Sky? in 2013.

Namtchylak’s fourth album, Like a Bird Or Spirit Not a Face, arrived in 2016 and it came true thanks to Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan who put the Siberian artist in contact with Tinariwen’s rhythmic section; the result was an album that went beyond the musical experimentation, creating new sound borders that mixed very different but complementary atmospheres.

Sainkho Namtchylak and Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan return in 2023 with a set of songs improvised and recorded on location across the abandoned islands of Venice in Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs and Lullaby

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The magical hymns to nature aboard a gondola of the legendary Sainkho

Sainkho Namtchylak and Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan return with a set of songs improvised and recorded on location across the abandoned islands of Venice in Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs and Lullaby

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