Yat-Kha - We Will Never Die '2021

Tracks list

We Will Never Die is Yat-Khas eight studio album. Centred around the huge voice
of charismatic singer Albert Kuvezin from the remote Russian republic of Tuva
(latitude: London, longitude: Bangladesh), the group’s long international
career started out during the collapse of the USSR in 1991 with the release of
“Antropofagia” on celebrated writer & art critic Artemy
Troitsky’s General Records (Moscow). The release of the legendary
“Yenisei-Punk” album recorded for Global Music Centre (Helsinki) in
1994 saw them gain worldwide recognition. Under the management of then bassist
Lu Edmonds (3Mustapha3, Mekons, The Damned, PiL etc.), Yat-Kha signed to Paddy
Moloney’s Wicklow Records (BMG Classics) and performed at all major music
festivals in Europe, North America and the Far East. Kuvezins ultra-low variant
of Tuvan throat singing, the kargyraa or kanzat stayle, still remains the unique
feature of Yat-Khas mixture of traditional music and experimental roots rock and
whereas there are many great khoomeiji singers this style is unique to Yat-Kha.

Recorded after the 2019 European tour, the album We Will Never Die was recorded
in Southern Germany in the studios of German krautrock legends Hans-Joachim
Irmler and in some ways follows Kuvezins Poet and Lighthouses album which itself
was recorded on the remote Scottish whisky island of Jura by British producer
Giles Perring, reaching number One of the World Music Charts in 2010.

On this new album Kuvezin is accompanied by his long-term Tuvan friend and
musical accomplice, Sholban Mongush on igil (a bowed horsehair 2-string cello)
and backing vocals. Due to the usual pandemic and travel bans, some additional
tracks were later recorded by Kuvezin in Abakan, Khakassia in spring 2020.
Besides original compositions, the album features words gathered from the
sayings and incantations of Tuvan shamans - whose traditions form an unbroken
lineage dating back to the neolithic period - as well as Black Sabbaths Solitude
and While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison), two songs sometimes played
as an encore on live shows.

The Lollipoppe Shoppe is extremely proud to continue their involvement with this
extraordinary band who in many ways blazed a trail since the early 1990s many
new and interesting emerging East Asian rock music artists and experimenters for
example the Mongolian metal-rock band “The Hu”.

We hope you will enjoy it as much as Yat-Kha had in making it!

Tracks:
01 - Yat-Kha - Kongurgai (4:33) 
02 - Yat-Kha - Kazhanda-daa Olbes-le Bis (4:48) 
03 - Yat-Kha - Shartylaam (4:35) 
04 - Yat-Kha - Umyvalsya Nochyu Na Dvore... (3:34) 
05 - Yat-Kha - Ak-Oruk (3:22) 
06 - Yat-Kha - Solitude (4:08) 
07 - Yat-Kha - Bodap Choran (3:52) 
08 - Yat-Kha - On the Path (Eternal Tengri Will Call Us) (4:28) 
09 - Yat-Kha - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2:59)

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