Tuvan Throat Singing is an unearthly singing technique through which performers produce several pitches at once, in imitation of nature. Tuvan throat singing mesmerizes listeners and draws them in to Tyva or Tuva, a republic of Russia located in Eastern Siberia. Among them Sean Quirk, a US citizen who came to Tyva to study throat singing in 2003 and stayed in Kyzyl. He fell in love with a local woman and got used to a shabby Russian car. Elizabeth Gordon, a music student, travelled to Tyva from

This beautiful kind of singing from Tuva, in Central Asia, was virtually unknown to the West until the 80s. | Timeline