TUVAN YENISEI PUNK THROAT-SINGING SENSATION YAT-KHA PERFORM LIVE AND UNPLUGGED AT LONDON'S NATIONAL FILM THEATRE ACCOMPANYING THE PREMIERE 140 MINUTE UNCENSORED FULL SIZE ENGLISH TITLE PROJECTION OF V.I.PUDOVKIN'S 1928 SILENT RUSSIAN FORMALIST FILM MASTERPIECE "STORM OVER ASIA - THE HEIR OF GENGHIS KHAN". PRODUCED BY MAREK PYTEL. AN ORIGINAL REALITY PRODUCTION.

REALITY are pleased to be working on this production with unique archive footage preserved and generously supplied for this production by the John Paul Getty Conservation Centre in the UK and Film Preservation Associates in the USA.

YAT-KHA "STORM OVER ASIA" to be broadcast by the UK's prestigious FILMFOUR movie channel in 2004...

DVD release of the film is currently being recorded. Again a 2004 release date is anticipated... watch this space.

YAT-KHA "Storm Over Asia" is now booking through: Rob Challice at www.codaagency.com

Recent performances:
BARBICAN CENTRE London 26th May 2003
KREMS film festival Austria 26th July 2003
PAKHUS 11 Copenhagen 29th & 30th August 2003

Yat-Kha "Storm Over Asia" US tour dates (2001)
Yat-Kha "Storm Over Asia" reviews etc.: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8

 

Music and Throat-singing from the Altai-Sayani Mountains of Tuva (southern Siberia). Yat-Kha first emerged in 1991 at the "Voice of Asia Festival" in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. Brian Eno was impressed enough to invent a "Special Prize" on the spot for Albert KUVEZIN's unique ultra-deep "kanzat" throat-singing. Now a 6-piece band - founder Albert is joined by young "Khoomeiji" ace morinhuur player Radik TIULIUSH, and Tuvan musicians Zhenya TKACHOV (percussion), Sailyk OMMUN (yat-kha, vox), Mahmoud SKRIPALTSCHCHIKOV (bass) - the band has built up a reputation across many different audiences appearing at Folk festivals, improv Jazz sessions, sweaty punk rock clubs, new age gatherings, WOMAD, classical concert halls and the WOMEX 1999. Prevented as late as 1989 by the KGB and local "ideological" cultural departments from playing their contemporary take on age old forms of local expression, YAT KHA today embrace the musical and vocal traditions of the peoples who inhabit the Altai-Sayani mountains, the Tuvan, Khakass and Mongolian nomads, whilst reaching out from one of the most remote parts of the planet to modern life, electricity and other cultures.

“Both electric AND electrifying, it's unlike anything you've heard...”
The Beat magazine 1999

A direct, frank, deadly blow to American, British and Soviet Russian imperialist perfidity. Pudovkin's long neglected silent epic is screened here in its restored full length original version unavailable for over 70 years. Re-issued "sonorised" in the late 1940's but cut by over 30 minutes, the film's original titles were excised and much unique historical footage of local life in the Altai, Mongolian and Tuvan Urianghai Central Asiatic Republics disappeared as these regions themselves were simply absorbed into Soviet Russian territory. At the same time the film's original and emotive ending, from which the title of the film "STORM OVER ASIA" came, was censored almost to the point of travesty. This screening of a new print restored by Film Preservation Associates and BFI Collections, previously unavailable in the UK or anywhere else, restores all the previously "lost" footage providing a rare opportunity to re-assess the talents of one of world cinema's greatest theorists and a director of genius.