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This post is about Khakassia, Siberia – a hidden cultural and archeological gem, full of treasured forbidden history monuments and home to incredible shamanic throat singining. Khakassia is now being rebuilt, while struggling to overcome tragic consequences of the recent forest fire.
Khakassia is a small autonomous republic in southern Siberia, Russian Federation; population about 500,000. It’s located between the large metropolises of Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk.
Map of the Russian Federation – Khakassia is in red
Just like the nearby Tyva and other mystical stretches of Siberia and the Far East, Khakassia is the realm of ancient shamans, famous for its one-of-a-kind throat singing. This land of steppes and forests resembles an open-air museum, the keeper of mysteries of our true past. It is called the archeological Mecca of Siberia, with 30,000 stonehenges, remnants of ancient cities and fortresses, kurgan pyramids as burial sites, and rock engravings strewn all over Khakassian steppes.
Khakassia primordial stone engravings
Sunduki, Khakassia: 16,000 year old stone monuments – kurgans/pyramids
The primordial rocks dotting the landscape are sacred ancestral energy portals commonly found in Siberia, Crimea, Caucasus and all over Russia. The British Stonehenge was made famous, but you could say that the entire Russia is one giant Stonehenge. Some of these ancient portals are still awaiting their discovery.
Khakassian stonehenges, Siberia, Russia
Recently, Khakassia experienced a terrible tragedy. An unusually dry and warm weather for this time of year resulted in a giant forest fire. This fire was carried by the improbably strong winds, reaching 30 m/second. Since the traditional construction material of choice in the forested northern parts of Khakassia is wood, a number of local villages burned down, leaving thousands displaced.
Meet Ruslan Gurude, amazing shamanic singer from Khakassia.
Ruslan Gurude (Ivakin) is a multi-talented economist, singer and composer from Khakassia. During the first show of the New Star («Новая Звезда») All-Russia singing competition, he amazed both audience and judges with his powerful performance of a Khakassian shamanic song. His incredible throat singing, common for these parts, but interpreted by Ruslan in a fresh and unique way, left his audience in awe.
Gurude (emphasis on ‘e’) showed an equally beautiful and unique singing in Round 2 and in semi-finals, all three times receiving the maximum score of 100.
Just before the semi-finals Gurude received a call from his family that despite all the state and local authorities’ precautions, his native village and his ancestral home burned down as the 30 m/second wind carried fire from the nearby forest.
Thanks to the «Новая Звезда» competition, Gurude’s singing already made an impression internationally. He was invited by UNESCO to sing at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, as well as Paris and several other European cities.
The New Star is a brand new competition. It is unique and advanced in its own right. Every region of Russia (every subject of the Federation) gets to send one representative. What has especially impressed me is this: a brief film about each Russian region (87 in total) is presented to the audience before singers’ performances, which allows each oblast and autonomy to promote its beauty, treasures and acomplishments, while people from all over the country get the chance to re-discover for themselves various far away corners of their vast and varied Motherland.
The New Star competition has five judges, who are famous singers, artistic directors and composers. Center stage represents a star with five lit rays. Each judge can choose to turn off his/her ray, thus taking away 20 points from a competitor. Citizens all over the country can also vote and thus help their favorite singer to advance, or not. Any genre is welcome, from folk and shamanic, to rock, pop, classic and opera. Singers sing in Russian, but also in languages of their origin, as well as in foreign languages. English and Spanish are popular. This competition allows talented people from all over the country get noticed.
Gurude is one of my personal favorites. I am charmed and impressed with his talent and multi-dimensional, cosmic presentation. There are several singers I am rooting for, but I will be happy if Gurude wins.
The competition level is very high and there are many wonderful singers, including a couple of other smashing throat singers from Chukotka and Buryatia. I’ll post their videos soon.
I think our only salvation from the mindless, mind-numbing pop that is flooding stage and TV screens all over the world is this kind of genuine, authentic folk singing. The future is the kind of singing that is encoded with our genetic memory. This is what the world needs to listen to in order to awaken and recall our real roots. It is up to us to decode it and remember the truth…
Gurude Round 1: Mirage in the Steppe – in Khakassian. “Степной мираж”. Играет на флейте (хобрах) Гурудэ (Руслан Ивакин, республика Хакассия). Новая звезда
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Gurude Round 2: North Wind – in Russian. Новая Звезда – 2 тур – Гурудэ (Хакасия) “Северный ветер”
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This guy is great! Thank you for sharing! Looking at the map, I think I must have passed through Khakassia by car with a bunch of hang glider pilots about 13 or so years ago. We drove from Irkutsk to Barnaul, and then turned south to the Altai. But this is my first time to hear shamanic throat singing, despite spending considerable time in Buryatia and knowing one shaman personally. I hope Gurude wins, and I hope his music receives a worldwide audience.
I hope he wins too. I really enjoy this competition. It has a wonderful energy and lots of talent. Will share more great songs later, but Ruslan is my favorite.
I think the salvation of the mindless, annoying pop that is flooding stage and TV screens all over the world is this kind of genuine, authentic folk singing. This is the future; this singing is the secret code imbedded with our genetic memory. This is what the world needs to listen to in order to remember our real roots.
I am going to add Khakassia to my bucket list, plus Tyva and Altai. There aren’t too many places in the world I still am passionate about visiting – this is one of them.
It was a real high point of my life, Lada, and I can sincerely recommend it to you. I think you have a very good point to make about Russia being the balancer. I’ve lived most of my life with one foot in the east and one in the west. When I went to Siberia, I felt like I was coming home. They seemed to be cultivating a balance of east and west. It really changed my life. I see how it is that you feel a lot of hope for the future. Thank you for reminding me of it.
I did not hear the throat singing (at least I do not recall it), but everybody there sang, and most of them, beautifully. Life was at its basis there. The source of power was there. Japan has many good things going on, but it seems like we have been cut off from that basis all too much, especially by technology. In the face of that, I’ve done a lot to establish a footing in the basis by farming, practicing Shinto and wandering in the forests of Mt. Fuji. The Siberians served as a real source of inspiration in this, and I miss them very much.
I hope the people of Khakassia will be able to rebuild their villages and resume life quickly.
Sorry for the late post. It took me a while to read this one. I was involved with my sister’s wedding at the time you posted but it looked so interesting I saved it for viewing later. So glad I did!! I am right there with you about the so-called popular “music.” Most of it is just drivel. Garude’s work is wonderful! It is very different, soulful, powerful and pure.
Khakassia just went onto my bucket list too! Where Russia is concerned it is a long list. Could take months! ;o) I learned of the throat singing shamans years ago and I also wanted to commune with Lake Baikal. Like you say Lada, just about all of Russia is a sacred place, and it’s a big country. Decisions, decisions! Thank you so much for sharing this. :o) I sure hope Garude wins. He certainly deserves that honor.
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Wow…Ruslan Gurude is an outstandingly accomplished performer. Absolutlely first rate in my opinion. Thanks for the links Lada. The whole world needs to hear this.
I agree, the world needs to hear this 🙂
He has a shaman’s eyes and the lady on the panel was totally in love with this :).
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