Ancestors Call, a song from a new album by Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo: Eternal. The album release date is early August 2009
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Photography by Vladislav Efimov
Ancestors
Eei, Ene-Saiym Sayan Tandym
Enisey [Mother River] and powerful Sayan mountains
Egyyr shagdan churttum chyve
Have been my motherland from ancient times
Erii khoiyg sygyt khoomei
Sweet songs of sygyt and khoomei [styles of throatsinging]
Erte shagdan yrym chyve
Have been my song from ancient times
Khoomei sygyt ogbeleri
Even though ancestors of sygyt and khoomei
Kojee dashtar apparza daa
Turned into stone babas [ancient stone figures]
Khorek chyrek khaiymnaldyr
For our soul and heart to be alive
Khoomeileer tolder bister
We, your descendants, sing khoomei and sygyt
Kargyraanyn ogbeleri
Even though the ancestors of kargyraa [throatsinging style]
Khaiya dashche khuulza daa
Turned into stone babas
Kadyg churek kuiumnaldyr
To soften your hard hearts
Kargyraalaar tolder bister
We, your descendants, sing kargyraa
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