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Vitamin S tonight features Chirgilchin, the current champions of the Tuvan national throat singing competitions! They’re dropping in to Odeon on their way to Dunedin. This sounds unmissable.

(Update) Wow, what a joyful musical occasion. The trio was greeted by a PACKED Odeon Lounge, and performed a 30 minute set of some of the most extraordinary and perfectly conceived music I’ve ever heard. Anyone who hasn’t heard throat singing should google it and find some mp3 samples, or look up Chirgilchin on Amazon. The documentary Genghis Blues is of course at the root of popular awareness of this musical style in the West, and is well worth catching, and is a good introduction to the sound and landscape of Tuva.