Sasha Bapa, his brother, Sayan, and two other musicians, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg and Albert Kuvezin formed HUUN-HUUR-TU in 1992 to focus on the performance of, as Sasha put it, "old and forgotten songs". Sasha, Sayan, and Kaigal-ool were refugees from one of the large state-managed song and dance ensembles that became a fixture of official cultural life during the Soviet era. For decades these ensembles with their glitzy performances of folk music or pseudo folk music offered close to the only outlet for young musicians who wanted to earn a living playing indigenous music. But as the music business has become increasingly privatized throughout the former Soviet Union, many musicians have abandoned the state ensembles and formed their own groups. The musical results have been decidedly mixed. At the same time that the members of HUUN-HUUR-TU have devoted themselves to learning oId songs and tunes, their performances reflect the values of innovation as much as tradition.
After producing, engineering, remixing, co-writing and being a musician on records for everyone from mega DJ Paul Oakenfold to rock god Pete Townshend of The Who, Carmen Rizzo finally carved out time to record his own CD. Fittingly, the lush, cinematic, beat-driven disc is called The Lost Art of the Idle Moment (The Lab/Universal).More information here.
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