“The percussion at the beginning sounds like someone sharpening a knife...Albert Kuvezin is heir to the ancient throat-singing tradition of Tuva, a tiny country at the literal ends of the earth (near Siberia, Mongolia)--a sound that has recently become common in Western film soundtracks, usually signalling something like, "You are entering a very strange, foreign, faraway place..." Somehow Albert also found some Sun Ra and Sonic Youth records...About a decade ago, I saw Yat-Kha perform a live soundtrack to the revolutionary-era silent film "Storm Over Asia" (1928), which was pretty damn overwhelming...”

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