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"…no fiction film could possibly have dreamed up this wonderful story."-Roger Ebert
Paul Pena heard a sound -- something intensely beautiful but disturbing at the same time -- coming from his short-wave radio.The sound was that of Tuvan throat-singers, a sound that changed his life forever and sent him on a journey across the world to a land unknown.In his search for harmony and the answer to a mystifying obsession, music helped Pena bridge two cultures.
This 1999 Oscar nominated film is the story of a blind blues musician and his triumphant trek to the forgotten land of Tuva and the mysterious art of khoomei, or throat-singing, a seemingly impossible form of singing that produces multiple vocal tones simultaneously.Paul Pena, who has played with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia, Muddy Waters and BB King, travels to Tuva to live among the descendants of Genghis Khan and compete in their triennial khoomei contest.
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