MAY
30th 2001
Everyone
is in Helsinki after the show and relaxing in the SAUNA
and the STUDIO.
MAY
18th 2001
It's
SAILYK's birthday and she is 22
Felicitations!
Terrible
Floods in TUVA
April
2001
The
managers computer has blown up nd ther ewill be no more
news for a bit except for important announcements.
JANUARY
2nd 2001
No
news. Everyone is OK. Happy New Year
DECEMBER
12th 2000
Band
all back in TUVA! Everyone is well.
Albert's
daughter's operation for a hole-in-the-heart went well and
she is recovering in hospital in NovoSibirsk. Albert says
he is staying with a friend
"Equipment
and doctors are very brave, but the conditions are not so
good enough. I'm staying at Heinrich's place, because the
hospital cockroaches have touched me to my balls. "
The
operation went on for 6 hours with a 21 minute stoppage.
Camilla feels better and we must all hope that she will
lead a happy and healthy life. Another 2 children were also
sent - after 2 years of waiting - and many thanks to everyone
who helped!
Meanwhile,
everything is getting ready for getting the new studio CD
"Aldyn Dashka"
out in Europe and, of course, looking for distribution in
USA, Taiwan and Japan. Albert says the band are now ready
to record a brand new record with the new line-up - so fans
of Sailyk and Radik's
singing and Makmud's bouncing-bass
can look forward to that sometime next year.
TOURING:
after the band's success at the Rennes Transmusicalles Festival,
YAT-KHA will tour in FRANCE in MAY 2000 - this seems certain.
So we are building other European dates around this. Keep
checking the datesheet
for details.
Meanwhile
- thanks to all those who organised the tour and helped
out:
Henning
Kuypers - Germany, co-ordination and imagination
Jeroen Melchers - sound & herding
Dave Clarke & everyone at CVC, Gateshead - pre-production,
hospitality, driving and more
Rob Challice - European agent, management of the manager
Yorrick Benoist - French agent
Seb - CH agent
...and many more !!!!!!!!!! (when there is time your name
here)
November
20th 2000
Band
are all well and in BERLIN - see tour
dates.
They
also got a review for the QEH date
in London
The
CMN tour went OK, and they mnaged to get to Oberhausen despite
British trains and Virgin schedules
The
new CD is selling at the
shows! Go get it now...
France
- Night & Day disribution
Germany
- EXIL records / Indigo
UK
- DIscovery Record
Benelux
- Music & Words
October
24th 2000
new
dates in MOSCOW and Germany
Yat-Kha
arrive in Moscow October 25th after a long train journey
through Siberia.........
WOMEX
- Yat-Kha have a new agent for Germany - BERTHOLD SELIGER.
For
all enquiries for concerts in GERMANY and AUSTRIA please
email him: bsr@bseliger.de
Oct
15th 2000
The
European tour November 2000 is confirmed. Yat-Kha are all
in Tuva and looking forward to playing. WOMEX is the place
where anyone can meet the agents and managers who try and
help Yat-Kha (please go look at www.womex.de)
WICKLOW
RECORDS falls over... bye bye BMG Classics.
August
2nd 2000 news
Yat-Kha
have just finished 3 months in Europe. They left for Russia
yesterday. Everyone is very happy to be going home, probably
also to not be sleeping on their manager's floor in London!
They all had a good time, especially Sailyk and Mahmoud
who have never been anywhere further than Abakan.
They
all say "Many Thanks" to all the people who helped
- our fabulous agent Mr. Rob CHALLICE and his Concert Clinic
people (hey! Jessy) - to our local agents (Double You Holland,
Partenope SPAIN, ATER Italy) and all the organisers, crews
and people from all the venues. Special thanks to Henning
Kuepper for his emergency guerilla dates in Germany. Andof
ourse to all the people who turned up and bought tickets
and CDs. As the tour suffered from the melting of Wicxklow
Records and so we had no new CDs to sell, plusalso some
dates went down Yat-Kha were very lucky to make it through
without losing lots of money.
So
thanks also to everyone who helped with accomodation and
pre-production - Dave Clarke and all at Clara Vale Complex
CVC Gateshead UK, Dan and Sally Writer in Hitchin, Dave
Lee and the mountain people of Llangollen and Marek PYTEL
for helping out and inventing the "Storm over Asia"
project.
STORM
OVER ASIA This was one major highlight of the tour.
Imagine - Yat-Kha playing an improvised live soundtrack
to the great 1928 Soviet film. It must happen again and
everywhere on the planet.
OLD
NEWS (July 17th)
Everyone
is OK and in Falun where it has been raining plenty. Yat-Kha
watched Billy Bragg and the Blokes and had a bit of a laugh
watching their alleged manager playing and getting some
wrong notes ue to the heavy driving rain gettin in between
his eyes and his fingers. They are resting and ready to
go to HITCHIN (15 & 16 July) and thenItaly (18-23 July)
- see tourdates
All
went OK in Poland where they had a great time blowing up
half the city of Wroclaw's electricity supply (as ALbert
went for the very low note on the song "Chorumal"
- as well as in Bremen and Llangollen - which reminded them
of home. Many thanks to Glyn and Bryn (spelt?) and everyone
up there in North Wales who was there on 3rd July and 4th
July. Theyalso saw Chirgilchin play and Albert says this
young band is really the one to watch if you like your Tuvan
music good and traditional.
Yat-Kha
were in their hotel when the tragedy of Roskilde happened.
They played early on in the day - first band on the White
stage. Raining outside, the set inside the tent was great.
Waking up next morning at 5am to hear the news was 100% bad
and all their condolences go out to the people family, and
pals of those who died.
NEW
DATES:
After
having gigs cancelled some new ones are emerging.
15th
July HITCHIN festival and perhaps a one-off on the 29th
July in London - more about this soon if we can pull it
together. WATCH THIS SPACE!!
Yat-Kha
played the nonmud epic Glastonbury the week before as well
as Bradford and Birmingham. Glastonbury's late breakfast crowd
seemed to get sparked out of their various hangovers and/or
brainlessness states. The weather was fine and they got there
just in time from Bradford and Oerol Festival in Holland and
the nice folk festival peoples of Beverley in Yorkshire and
MANY other places (see old tour
sheet).
MAIN
NEWS: seems that Wicklow Records is going through a "difficult
phase" and nobody knows if it will survive the latest
bloody restructurings at BMG Classics NYC. We are sorry
about the interruption but the band is busy cooking up onstage
so GO CATCH THEM NOW WHILE THEY ARE HERE! Otherwise you
will all regret it later. But as you are all possibly already
familiar with Yat-Kha you already know that. The new members
(Radik, Sailyk
and Mahmoud) are really
putting new things into the band.
Anyways,
it is all going forwards
OLD
NEWS
OLD NEWS June 12th 2000
Yat-Kha
are back in sunny Gateshead making a new CD and trying to
wash their clothes. They travel very light so any contributions
in the way of clothing and leisure wear are greatly appreciated.
The sizes of the band will soon be put up.
The
European tour went good. Although there were not so many
people at the Melkweg Tilburg was altogether different at
the 013 club and everyone had a good time and were very
surprised by the traffic jams the next day. The Druckluft
was very packed and Koln seemed to like the sound of Tuvans
in a church.
OLD
NEWS June 6th 2000
Yat-Kha
played last might in The Shrine - one of Berlin's most underground
club in the Ost-Kreuzberg Friedrichshain. Packed the place
out and hot it was. The audience was so up for it they played
2 hours! Non-Stop...
where
are they now? sleeping in Berlin about to go to OBERHAUSEN
Druckluft for the 7th June - anyone who does not know where
this place is had better find out as it is a serious place
for new music in the Ruhr area.
The
Koeln all-acoustic gig at the Christuskirche went well with
4 encores. The night before in the Red Lion Hotel in Whittlesford
near Cambridge thery joined in a session of English folk
musicians (and one Omani Quranic scholar) all playing music
in this fine old 13th century ex-Carmelite Priory turned
pub which has not a single straight line in it anywhere.
Perhaps Yat-Kha will play there on the way back from some
of the festivals they play this summer. Please check
the dates because there has been a the usual stready erosion
of dates - Vienna (thank you Jorg Haider for pulling the
funding for the festival there and therefore all the Czech,
Slovak and Hungarian dates) and Thessaloniki (thanks to
the new city government for pulling the permission and funding
for that one too). So - anyone interested in helping the
band out (i.e. concerts, festivals, workshops, places to
stay etc.) please contact manager@yat-kha.com.
Main
activity is still VISAS and WORK-PERMITS and ALIEN ~REGISTRATION
at the UK Police after a hectic tour around the UK, Sweden
and Spain. These dates all went well though Radik Tiuliush's
German visa was delayed for 24 hours and that meant he missed
all the Spanish dates. So various critics were as disappointed
as the band not to hear any of the khoomei vocals that many
people think is (exclusively) the main attraction in Tuvan
music. But the band pulled through and are now firing all
on 6 cylinders (or crawling along on all 6 legs, whatever
the anaolgy suits you best).
Good
news! Aldyn-ool SEVEK
is alive! He wrote a letter saying he has been in hospital
in the mountains and is very sorry to have been unable to
make this tour. We do not know what happened and those wishing
to encourage him can send him postcards presents, information
about small wind-turbines to generate electicity to punp
water up the hill to the upper village where he lives to
this address:
Aldyn-ool
SEVEK
Daigman street 9
Kyzyl Khaya village
TUVA Republic
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
But
RADIK and SAILYK
are making up for that with some fine perfomances. Go check
them out! The band also has been up in Gateshead CVC (ontact
Dave Clarke on +44 - 191 413 1441 for bookings) which is
a great place to rehearse and record up in the green belt
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (English equivalent of Krasnoyarsk).
old
NEWS – April 2000
World
TOUR starts May 15th
to December 15th 2000
–
Europe, USA, Japan, Canada, Europe…
New
CD "Aldyn Dashka" – the golden cup
JANUARY
2nd 2001
No
news. Everyone is OK. Happy New Year
DECEMBER
12th 2000
Band
all back in TUVA! Everyone is well.
Albert's
daughter's operation for a hole-in-the-heart went well and
she is recovering in hospitalin NovoSibirsk. Albert says
he is staying with a friend
"Equipment
and doctors are very brave, but the conditions are not so
good enough. I'm staying at Heinrich's place, because the
hospital cockroaches have touched me to my balls. "
The
operation went on for 6 hours with a 21 minute stoppage.
Camilla feels better and we must all hope that she will
lead a happy and healthy life. Another 2 children were also
sent - after 2 years of waiting - and many thanks to everyone
who helped!
Meanwhile,
everything is getting ready for getting the new studio CD
"Aldyn Dashka"
out in Europe and, of course, looking for distribution in
USA, Taiwan and Japan. Albert says the band are now ready
to record a brand new record with the new line-up - so fans
of Sailyk and Radik's
singing and Makmud's bouncing-bass
can look forward to that sometime next year.
TOURING:
after the band's success at the Rennes Transmusicalles Festival,
YAT-KHA will tour in FRANCE in MAY 2000 - this seems certain.
So we are building other European dates around this. Keep
checking the datesheet
for details.
Meanwhile
- thanks to all those who organised the tour and helped
out:
Henning
Kuypers - Germany, co-ordination and imagination
Jeroen Melchers - sound & herding
Dave Clarke & everyone at CVC, Gateshead - pre-production,
hospitality, driving and more
Rob Challice - European agent, management of the manager
Yorrick Benoist - French agent
Seb - CH agent
...and many more !!!!!!!!!! (when there is time your name
here)
November
20th 2000
Band
are all well and in BERLIN - see tour
dates.
They
also got a great review for the
QEH date in London
The
CMN tour went OK, and they mnaged to get to Oberhausen despite
British trains and Virgin schedules
The
new CD is selling at the
shows! Go get it now...
October
24th 2000
new
dates in MOSCOW and Germany
Yat-Kha
arrive in Moscow October 25th after a long train journey
through Siberia.........
WOMEX
- Yat-Kha have a new agent for Germany - BERTHOLD SELIGER.
For
all enquiries for concerts in GERMANY and AUSTRIA please
email him: bsr@bseliger.de
Oct
15th 2000
The
European tour November 2000 is confirmed. Yat-Kha are all
in Tuva and looking forward to playing. WOMEX is the place
where anyone can meet the agents and managers who try and
help Yat-Kha (please go look at www.womex.de)
WICKLOW
RECORDS falls over... bye bye BMG Classics.
August
2nd 2000 news
Yat-Kha
have just finished 3 months in Europe. They left for Russia
yesterday. Everyone is very happy to be going home, probably
also to not be sleeping on their manager's floor in London!
They all had a good time, especially Sailyk and Mahmoud
who have never been anywhere further than Abakan.
They
all say "Many Thanks" to all the people who helped
- our fabulous agent Mr. Rob CHALLICE and his Concert Clinic
people (hey! Jessy) - to our local agents (Double You Holland,
Partenope SPAIN, ATER Italy) and all the organisers, crews
and people from all the venues. Special thanks to Henning
Kuepper for his emergency guerilla dates in Germany. Andof
ourse to all the people who turned up and bought tickets
and CDs. As the tour suffered from the melting of Wicxklow
Records and so we had no new CDs to sell, plusalso some
dates went down Yat-Kha were very lucky to make it through
without losing lots of money.
So
thanks also to everyone who helped with accomodation and
pre-production - Dave Clarke and all at Clara Vale Complex
CVC Gateshead UK, Dan and Sally Writer in Hitchin, Dave
Lee and the mountain people of Llangollen and Marek PYTEL
for helping out and inventing the "Storm over Asia"
project.
STORM
OVER ASIA This was one major highlight of the tour.
Imagine - Yat-Kha playing an improvised live soundtrack
to the great 1928 Soviet film. It must happen again and
everywhere on the planet.
OLD
NEWS (July 17th)
Everyone
is OK and in Falun where it has been raining plenty. Yat-Kha
watched Billy Bragg and the Blokes and had a bit of a laugh
watching their alleged manager playing and getting some
wrong notes ue to the heavy driving rain gettin in between
his eyes and his fingers. They are resting and ready to
go to HITCHIN (15 & 16 July) and thenItaly (18-23 July)
- see tourdates
All
went OK in Poland where they had a great time blowing up
half the city of Wroclaw's electricity supply (as ALbert
went for the very low note on the song "Chorumal"
- as well as in Bremen and Llangollen - which reminded them
of home. Many thanks to Glyn and Bryn (spelt?) and everyone
up there in North Wales who was there on 3rd July and 4th
July. Theyalso saw Chirgilchin play and Albert says this
young band is really the one to watch if you like your Tuvan
music good and traditional.
Yat-Kha
were in their hotel when the tragedy of Roskilde happened.
They played early on in the day - first band on the White
stage. Raining outside, the set inside the tent was great.
Waking up next morning at 5am to hear the news was 100% bad
and all their condolences go out to the people family, and
pals of those who died.
NEW
DATES:
After
having gigs cancelled some new ones are emerging.
15th
July HITCHIN festival and perhaps a one-off on the 29th
July in London - more about this soon if we can pull it
together. WATCH THIS SPACE!!
Yat-Kha
played the nonmud epic Glastonbury the week before as well
as Bradford and Birmingham. Glastonbury's late breakfast crowd
seemed to get sparked out of their various hangovers and/or
brainlessness states. The weather was fine and they got there
just in time from Bradford and Oerol Festival in Holland and
the nice folk festival peoples of Beverley in Yorkshire and
MANY other places (see old tour
sheet).
MAIN
NEWS: seems that Wicklow Records is going through a "difficult
phase" and nobody knows if it will survive the latest
bloody restructurings at BMG Classics NYC. We are sorry
about the interruption but the band is busy cooking up onstage
so GO CATCH THEM NOW WHILE THEY ARE HERE! Otherwise you
will all regret it later. But as you are all possibly already
familiar with Yat-Kha you already know that. The new members
(Radik, Sailyk
and Mahmoud) are really
putting new things into the band.
Anyways,
it is all going forwards
OLD
NEWS
OLD NEWS June 12th 2000
Yat-Kha
are back in sunny Gateshead making a new CD and trying to
wash their clothes. They travel very light so any contributions
in the way of clothing and leisure wear are greatly appreciated.
The sizes of the band will soon be put up.
The
European tour went good. Although there were not so many
people at the Melkweg Tilburg was altogether different at
the 013 club and everyone had a good time and were very
surprised by the traffic jams the next day. The Druckluft
was very packed and Koln seemed to like the sound of Tuvans
in a church.
OLD
NEWS June 6th 2000
Yat-Kha
played last might in The Shrine - one of Berlin's most underground
club in the Ost-Kreuzberg Friedrichshain. Packed the place
out and hot it was. The audience was so up for it they played
2 hours! Non-Stop...
where
are they now? sleeping in Berlin about to go to OBERHAUSEN
Druckluft for the 7th June - anyone who does not know where
this place is had better find out as it is a serious place
for new music in the Ruhr area.
The
Koeln all-acoustic gig at the Christuskirche went well with
4 encores. The night before in the Red Lion Hotel in Whittlesford
near Cambridge thery joined in a session of English folk
musicians (and one Omani Quranic scholar) all playing music
in this fine old 13th century ex-Carmelite Priory turned
pub which has not a single straight line in it anywhere.
Perhaps Yat-Kha will play there on the way back from some
of the festivals they play this summer. Please check
the dates because there has been a the usual stready erosion
of dates - Vienna (thank you Jorg Haider for pulling the
funding for the festival there and therefore all the Czech,
Slovak and Hungarian dates) and Thessaloniki (thanks to
the new city government for pulling the permission and funding
for that one too). So - anyone interested in helping the
band out (i.e. concerts, festivals, workshops, places to
stay etc.) please contact manager@yat-kha.com.
Main
activity is still VISAS and WORK-PERMITS and ALIEN ~REGISTRATION
at the UK Police after a hectic tour around the UK, Sweden
and Spain. These dates all went well though Radik Tiuliush's
German visa was delayed for 24 hours and that meant he missed
all the Spanish dates. So various critics were as disappointed
as the band not to hear any of the khoomei vocals that many
people think is (exclusively) the main attraction in Tuvan
music. But the band pulled through and are now firing all
on 6 cylinders (or crawling along on all 6 legs, whatever
the anaolgy suits you best).
Good
news! Aldyn-ool SEVEK
is alive! He wrote a letter saying he has been in hospital
in the mountains and is very sorry to have been unable to
make this tour. We do not know what happened and those wishing
to encourage him can send him postcards presents, information
about small wind-turbines to generate electicity to punp
water up the hill to the upper village where he lives to
this address:
Aldyn-ool
SEVEK
Daigman street 9
Kyzyl Khaya village
TUVA Republic
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
But
RADIK and SAILYK
are making up for that with some fine perfomances. Go check
them out! The band also has been up in Gateshead CVC (ontact
Dave Clarke on +44 - 191 413 1441 for bookings) which is
a great place to rehearse and record up in the green belt
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (English equivalent of Krasnoyarsk).
old
NEWS – April 2000
World
TOUR starts May 15th
to December 15th 2000
–
Europe, USA, Japan, Canada, Europe…
New
CD "Aldyn Dashka" – the golden cup
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