| Format | Audio CD |
| Ordering Number | SFW40017 |
| Barcode | 093074001721 |
| label | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Release date | 1/3/2013 |
| Release date | 1/1/1990 |
| salesrank | 4342 |
Recorded in 1987, this highly-acclaimed release makes available to the world a miraculous and remarkable ancient musical tradition, including examples of the rare multiphonic "throat-singing" technique. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Folklife Programs, and the U.S.S.R. Union of Composers, it is an astonishing achievement. "Primal and forthright...a beguiling earful." — The New York Times
CD 1- 1.Steppe Kargiraa (Fedor Tau)
- 2.Sigit (Mergen Mongush)
- 3.Sigit "Alash" (Mergen Mongush)
- 4.Sigit with Igil (bowed instrument) (Anatolii Kuular)
- 5.Khoomei (Fedor Tau)
- 6.Khoomei (Sundukai Mongush)
- 7.Tespeng Khoomei (Sundukai Mongush)
- 8.Kozhamik (medley) with khoomei, sigit, and kargiraa (Tumat Kara)
- 9.Kargiraa duet "Artii-Sayir" (Tumat Kara and Andrei Chuldum)
- 10.Khomuz melodies performed by trio of Khomuz players (Anchimaa Sonat, Anchimaa Khert, Achyimaa Targin Chandanmaa Torten)
- 11.Borbannadir (Mikhail Dopchun)
- 12.Borbannadir (Tumat Kara)
- 13.Borbannadir with finger strokes across lips (Tumat Kara)
- 14.Borbannadir (Anatolii Kuular)
- 15.Ezengileer (Marzhimal Ondar)
- 16.Sigit with khomuz (Oleg Kuular)
- 17.Medley of various throat-singing styles (Ensemble "Amirak")
- 18.Kargiraa "Artii-Sayir" (Vasili Chazir)
- 19.Melody on the amirge (hunting horn): luring of the stag (Vasilii Khuurak)
- 20.Imitation of the roe deer, the musk deer, the reindeer, owl, wolf's howl; Appeal to the patron of hunters before the bear hunt; Reinder herder's calls to reindeer (Vasilii Khuurak, Shozhul Salchak, and Polina Ore)
- 21.Domestication of sheep to lamb (Doluma Lopsanchap)
- 22.Domestication of goat to kid (Doluma Lopsanchap)
- 23.Domestication of cow to calf (Khuren Oorzhak)
- 24.Domestication of camel to calf (Shimet Soyan)
- 25.Excerpt from shamanic healing ritual (Alexander Davakai)
- 26.Funeral lament (Tatyana Sat)
- 27.Lullaby (Tatyana Sat)
- 28.Wooden jew's harp (Balgan Kuzhuget)
- 29.Lullaby with Khoomei (Bilchit-Maa Davaa)
- 30.Long Song: "Don't Frighten the Crane" (Sundukai Mongush)
- 31.Long Song: "When I Graze My Beautiful Sheep" (Khuren Oorzhak)
- 32.Kozhamiktar (antiphonal quatrains) (Group of men and women from Chadan, Dzun-Khemchik Region)
- 33.Ceremonial Song: "Hymn to the Mountains" (Kazak Sandak)