{"id":217878,"date":"2025-02-20T17:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=217878"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:09:58","slug":"sainkho-namtchylak","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/authors\/sainkho-namtchylak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainkho Namtchylak"},"featured_media":217879,"template":"","acf":{"author_type":"artist","description":"<strong>SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBorn in a village in the former Soviet republic of Tuva, in southern Siberia near the border with Mongolia, Sainkho Namtchylak comes from a family of teachers. She studied music at the local conservatory and completed her education in Moscow, graduating in vocal performance from the Gnesinsky Institute.\r\n\r\nAfter graduating, Namtchylak worked with various ensembles, including the Moscow State Orchestra, the Moscow jazz ensemble Tri-O (from 1989), the School of Dramatic Art under the direction of Anatoly Vasiliev (Moscow), and several orchestras in Kyzyl, such as the Tuvan \"folkloric orchestra,\" an example of raw folk baroque far less polished than, say, what existed in Kazakhstan before independence. This orchestra also featured many other prominent Tuvan singers. For several years, Namtchylak annually invited foreign musicians to Tuva to promote Tuvan culture.\r\n\r\nShe also studied Siberian Lamaist and shamanic traditions, as well as Tuvan styles of throat singing. She began her career as a folk singer with the Tuvan State Folk Ensemble and later gained international recognition with her own songs compiled under the title *Out of Tuva*.\r\n\r\nIn 1988, Sainkho started collaborating with other musicians in the Soviet Union, aiming to fuse Tuvan ethnic traditions with modern and experimental styles. She was part of the St. Petersburg jazz ensemble \"Tri-O,\" alongside Sergey Letov (saxophone), Arkady Kirichenko (tuba), and Alexander Alexandrov (bassoon), attracting Western media attention for her incredible vocal virtuosity and exotic appeal.\r\n\r\n1997 marked a turning point in her career: since then, she has lived between Vienna and Dublin, dedicating herself to her concert career. In 1998, she released the album *Naked Spirit*, which won the \"Deutscher Schallplattenpreis\" in Germany.\r\n\r\nIn 2005, the Italian publishing house Libero di Scrivere published her poetry book *Karmaland*. In 2006, a book titled *Chelo-Vek* was published in St. Petersburg in Russian, Tuvan, and English. In 2013, she began collaborating with vocal experimenter and multi-instrumentalist Mauro Tiberi, performing at the Church of San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome as part of the *I Canti Misterici* festival curated by Tiberi.\r\n\r\nIn 2015, she worked with Sardinian saxophonist Enzo Favata and his Decoder Quartet. In April 2017, she continued her collaboration with Mauro Tiberi following a workshop organized by the Alterjinga association in Turin, where both taught harmonic singing techniques and presented a performance piece on Marco Polo's journey.\r\n\r\nIn 2018, she embarked on an Italian tour in a duo with Mauro Tiberi, which on some dates included electronic elements with the presence of guitarist and producer Alex Marenga (Amptek), under the project name \"Urban Tribe.\" In 2016, she released *Like a Bird or Spirit, not a Face*, an album produced by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (music producer, songwriter) and featuring members of Tinariwen.\r\n\r\nIn 2021, at the Milan Biodiversity Festival, she opened the sleeping concert of Enten Hitti (a musical research and experimentation group), singing and improvising with the ensemble. Her new album, *Lost Rivers 2*, was released in 2024, featuring free improvisation and jazz, as well as extreme and noise music.","featured_image":217879,"image_gallery":"","links":[{"url":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sainkhonamtchylak"}],"in_evidenza":false,"role_description":"","short_bio":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/217878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}