The Press and Net
about Nikolay Oorzhak's
(links to original articles in Russian)
Shamanism Magazine, Fall/Winter 2000, Vol. 13, Nos. 1 & 2
The Shamanic Jazz at Koktebel Festival
(Derzhava
magazine)
"Tuvan shaman Nikolay Oorzhak became a real
highlight of the program. He appeared on scene all the four days and each
time was improvising with another band. The throat sounds which he able to
utter is something average between the thunderclap and the fugue of
cathedral organ. One day he performed together with British saxophonist and
American bass-guitarist, and this international shamanic meditation
stuck to my memory above all."
Performance in Concert Hall "DOME", Moscow:
"... I recollect this
marvelous evening with much enjoyment.
Its harmony of Universe had spread for me
into the eternity..."
Tuvan Shaman Nikolay Oorzhak Treats Nizhny Novgorod
(Komsomolskaya
Pravda newspaper):
"The phenomenon of Nikolay Oorzhak is described
in number of researches... He was invited from Kyzil to clean the aura of
our town"
Perekrestok: Art-news from Dnepropetrovsk
"... the voice switches from low throat to
powerful high clear,
steppe-born,
widespreaded infinitely from skyline to
skyline, and there is bottomless sky with a blurred yellow spot of light,
and the long grass of Tuvan nomadic steppes are shimmering under the blue
wind, and far and wide, where've you look - the great and ancient Lord of
nomads..."
Tuvan
Shaman Nikolay Oorzhak
has Found a New Sounding with
Bands
"Safety Magic" and Pan Asian Ensemble
(NEWSmusic.ru)
"...We never heard the sounds like this.
This is a windfall"
The Heart is Awakening with Sounds of Tambourine
(reporting from
festival in Estonia)
"...The time is stopping, and somewhere far away
- it seems in another world - one can hear a mysterious voice. It calls you,
it demand you to wake up, to shake off the tinsel of made-up reality,
which hinder you to breathe with full chest and feel the ancient power of
ancestors."
The Magic Jazz from Nikolay Oorzhak
(jazz.ru)
"... The multilevel throat passages
are bewitching and takes the one on a flow of a sound waves far away
out of boundaries of visible world. They trying to find a response in every
perceptive soul. Sometimes they turns into the powerful resonance of
audience, particularly when the musician elicits someplace from the depth a
profound chant which transforms into the solid all-embracing roar..."
The Music, Health and Shamanism
(The Fifth
Dimension newspaper)
"... The drawling sounds of igil and famous
throat singing creates an unreal space tones. I am carried away
someplace - is it steppes, or cedars, or mountains? ... I lost the
feeling of ground. I blown away by by wind of taiga."
The Jazz is Here Again!
(The Mirror of Week newspaper report on International
Jazz festival in Kiev)
"... We were
amazed by vocal mastery ... of one of the best throat singing performers
Nikolay Oorzhak."
Nikolay Oorzhak: the Successful Experiment with «Alissid Jazz»
(NEWSmusic.ru)
"... The most
important that in addition to technical virtuosity Nikolay does not forget
about the mysterial psychedelic part. He keeps the kamlanije (ritual),
continuing the story. It is a rare charisma."
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