realname: Vladiswar Nadishana
city: Berlin
country: Germany
url: www.nadishana.nm.ru
company: Sound Microsurgery Department
PlaySoundFileName: Nadishana_KouKsiang.mp3

SoundFileArtist: Vladiswar Nadishana
Date: 12/1/2005
Time: 8:21:02 PM
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Solo on Kou Xiang by Vladiswar Nadishana.

About my style in playing the Kou Ksiang.

This is the mixture of traditional technique of Kuzhebarian people in the South of Krasnoyarsk region (Russia) where I am from with my own inventions. The way of fast rhytmical breathing is from Ancient Kuzhebar culture. And the theme of this song is in 13/8, which is very characteristic to this culture too, because kuzhebarians liked the odd signatures. Of course they played a different kind of jaw's harp, similar with one-tongue altaian khomus. I apply this technique to the kou ksiang. This is
a great instrument with a lot of possibilities and it's a pity that there are no kou xiang with 5 or 6 tongues.:)

I have also added the "envelope effect" and "fast doubling" method, when the forefinger is quickly switching from one tongue to another. To do this you must always
change the angle and position of the kou xiang near your mouth by your left hand while you are picking the tongues with the right hand. As a result you get the pocket acoustic polyphonic syntesizer that needs no electricity and you can play it in remote Taiga for example.


Best regards,
 nadishana