▶ Эркин Алексеев. Хомус Егора Тартакова. Erkin Alexeev. Tartakov's khomus jew's harp

Новый хомус Егора Тартакова (Сунтарский улус, Якутия).
Очень сочный, высокий звук. То, что я давно искал. При этом язычок инструмента лёгкий, не капризный.
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My new khomus made by Egor Tartakov. Very racy and high sound

* (google translate): New khomus of Egor Tartakova (Suntarsky Ulus, Yakutia).
Very juicy, high sound. What I have been looking for. At the same time the tongue of the tool is light, not capricious.
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Эркин Алексеев. Хомус Егора Тартакова. Erkin Alexeev. Tartakov's khomus jew's harp - YouTube

▶ Вечернее настроение. Хомус. Evening mood. Khomus. Jew's harp. Эркин Алексеев. Erkin Alexeev

Вечернее настроение. Хомус. Evening mood. Khomus. Jew's harp. Эркин Алексеев. Erkin Alexeev - YouTube

Published on Mar 30, 2018 by Erkin Art

English below *

Я часто говорю людям, что в моем представлении в старину наши предки играли на хомусе чаще в пору вечерних сумерек. Конечно Маак писал о том, что некоторые якуты могли бренчать на этом инструменте целый день напролет, но думается таких бездельников было немного. Раньше существовало поверье, что с наступлением темноты на хомусе лучше не играть. Мол, это привлекает злых духов. Но в светлое время суток весь день у саха проходил в нескончаемой работе по хозяйству. И вот, после всех трудов, после вечерней трапезы каждый член семьи лежал на своей лавочке во тьме (так как маленькие окна якутского жилища и дневной-то яркий свет не особо пропускали), освещаемой только светом камелька. И тут кто-нибудь начинал грустно напевать о нелегкой жизни, или же брал хомус и всю свою усталость, нелегкие думы изливал в музыку хомуса. И души исполнителя и домочадцев легчали, светлели...


* google translate:

I often tell people that in my view in the old days our ancestors played on khomus more often during the evening twilight. Of course, Makak wrote that some Yakuts could scream on this instrument all day long, but I think there were few such idlers. Previously, there was a belief that with the onset of darkness on the khomus it is better not to play. Like, it attracts evil spirits. But during the daylight hours all day at the Sakha passed in endless work on the au pair. And now, after all the labor, after the evening meal, each member of the family lay on his bench in the dark (since the small windows of the Yakut dwelling and the day's bright light did not particularly miss), lit only by the light of the fireside. And then someone began to sing sadly about hard life, or take khomus and all his fatigue, hard thoughts poured into the music of khomus. And the souls of the performer and households were lightening, brightening ...

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▶ Erkin Alexeev. Playing on yakutian khomus/ Игра на якутском хомусе - YouTube

Erkin Alexeev. Playing on yakutian khomus/ Игра на якутском хомусе - YouTube

▶ Erkin Art ~ Эркин Алексеев. "Өбүгэ утума, иэйии ситимэ" & "Эркин Алексеев. Поздравление на хомусе / Erkin Alexeev. Gongrats on the khomus"

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a conversation on Facebook regarding the Yakut solstice celebration – "Yhyakh"*

Erkin Art #KhomusWeekly :: #Хомус #jewsharp... - Khomus Weekly Jew's Harp Newsletter • #KhomusWeekly

* includes photos, videos and details thanks to Хомусчут Өндөрөй and Zoya I. Ivanova 

{regarding the structure}: Хомусчут Өндөрөй –
It is Sakha (Yakut) traditional calender, wooden desk with painted spiral, with holes for every day of the year, the tied plug is reentered next hole every morning. Represented as fence with poles and gates for months and seasons, the centre is huge shaman drum which in turn represents moon calender (31 horns round the frame), with worship temple (Urasa) on drum top.
...Besides, this calender also represents Sakha holy tree Al Luk Maas. Every year a big Olonkho Isiakh is being celebrated in another region, and the Tree is being constructed there. Usually it's a wooden carved construction...

http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=129.3594%2C61.68739&z=17&l=sat 

Zoya I. Ivanova could help you with more detailed information about Sakha sacred matter, she even wrote a book exactly on Sakha calender.


Zoya I. Ivanova –

It's not simple to explain in short comment the ancient Faith and the astronomical knowledge of the Sakha people.

Basically, the calendar of the Sakha people, as well as their mythological World Tree - Aal Luuk Mas (the Axis of the World), had the upper and lower worlds, and in the lower world in the representation of the Sakha people, even the Sun and all his inhabitants moved in the opposite direction. The account of days of the “dark” half of a month, under the decreasing Moon, in an ancient calendar of Sakha was kept in the opposite direction, the same way were estimated months in the “dark” half of a year.
So, necessary to look at the ancient calendar of the Sakha in 3D measurement, instead of in 2D (in flat).

The symbol of the World Tree – Sarga - ritual pole and the hitching post for the horse. 

Sarga that included in the ancient Sakha's calendar used in the ancient time as astronomical instrument - a sundial (gnomons). 
There are the proofs that the ancient northern people invented cosmic clock and a calendar many millennia ago.
It was developed by northern shepherds habitually used the circumpolar stars, seen every night rotating round the North Pole, as the night clock. They serve as the night timer for them until now. 
Ancestors of the Sakha people lived naturally and constantly feeling "the starry sky above their head and the moral law within them” (Immanuel Kant). It is possible to understand the scale of feelings of the person who has the live moving stellar sky as a dial of the hours. In such conditions, the relationship with the eternity, with the life and death, with ancestors and with moral purity had to be clear and daily. 
The stellar sky served the northern people as a clock, a compass and a calendar. 

Natural long observation of the shining stars in the dense darkness of the cold sky, at the annual rotation of the Big Dipper around a fixed Pole Star had to reproduce a swastika form in consciousness of ancient ancestors of people.
As far back as 1901, Zelia Nuttall recognized the role of the Big Dipper in the whirling logs or swastika design so common in American Indian artifacts. The review of her article “The Fundamental Principles of New and Old World Civilizations” from the Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, notes that Ms. Nuttall suggested that the swastika symbol was “believed to have originated in the revolution of the stars of Ursa Major about Polaris….”. A swastika which often meets in design of historical artifacts of American Indians, it is the image of the Big Dipper in its movement, round the Pole Star, within all four seasons of the year. The Big Dipper, according to the ancient Mississippians, is part of a great Astronomical Bird - birds, a snake and an elk, who met together in spinning round the Portal of Heavens, round the Creation Cave. 

As we see, the Sakha people related with the American Native people not only genetically, but also with this universal symbol of infinity and the movement of space, a force and an creation, a fertility and a creative potentiality. The word 'swastika' in translation from a Sanskrit means 'wellbeing’.
The symbol of a swastika is known from time immemorial and in cultures of many people means the Absolute. Other symbol of the Absolute is the World tree - our native Sarga - Aal Luuk Mas or the Axis of the World. 

You can find more in my book here:

"Sakha’s Sarga, Totem Pole and Stone Age Megaliths are from ‘One Family’: The Life of the Yakut (Sakha) Family ...Stories of Great-Grandmother"

https://www.amazon.com/Sakhas-Sarga-Totem.../dp/B01460I00G

or here:)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521039712/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

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Sakha Culture / Yakutia @ #KhomusWeekly - YouTube PLAYLIST

13 июля в 18:30 мастер-класс и концерт «Четыре стихии». | Master Class & Concert

13 июля в 18:30 мастер-класс и концерт «Четыре стихии». (english below)*

Во время мастер-класса Эркин Алексеев покажет как играть на хомусе в нескольких древних якутских стилях. Самый яркий из них, конечно, шаманский.
Когда-то давно шаманы, призывая своих духов-помощников, кричали их голосами.
Сейчас якутские артисты взяли на вооружение этот приём и широко используют его в своих выступлениях.
Наверняка вам приходилось слышать как хомусист во время игры , вдруг начинает кричать множеством голосов природы.

Николай Соболев, Наталья Дучева и Ольга Прасс поделятся уникальными авторскими техниками игры на варгане, накопленными за годы практики.

После мастер-класса состоится концерт. На котором будут звучать не только Хомусы и Варганы. А ещё и Бубны, Cosmicbow и Горловое пение.

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Четыре стихии охватывают всё мироздание. Они символизируют четыре основных состояния.
Без каждой из четырёх стихий мы не сможем существовать.
Они словно магия струн музыкального инструмента.

Из тишины, едва слышно, в воздухе возникает первая нота. Она подобна первой капле долгожданного дождя… Падая на сухую землю капля за каплей, словно ноту за нотой дождь тихо нашёптывает небесную песню. И вот уже всё вокруг начинает кружиться и плясать в огненных отблесках молний, подхватываемых неистовым музыкальным вихрем. Ты отрываешься от земли и паришь словно птица по небу, лишь только тонкая нить звука удерживает и направляет тебя в твоём звуковом путешествии.

Ваши проводники - Эркин Алексеев, Николай Соболев, Наталья Дучева и Ольга Прасс.
Вход - 700 руб.

Ждём вас в среду, 13 июля, в 18.30, в КЦ "Белые Облака", Покровка 4

* On 13 July at 18:30 in the master class and a concert of "the four elements".
During The Master-class erkin alekseyev will show how to play the khomuse in several ancient yakutskikh styles. Brightest of them, of course, shamanic.
Once upon a time, shamans, encouraging their spirits-helpers, shouted their votes.
Now yakut artists have adopted this reception and widely use it in their statements.
I'm sure you've heard how khomusist during the game, all of a sudden she starts to scream a lot of votes of nature.
Nicholas Sobolev, Natalia Ducheva and Olga Prass will share the unique technicians games on vargane, accumulated over the years of practice.
After the master-class will be held at the concert. Where the sound will not only khomusy and vargany. And also, and diamonds, cosmicbow and overtone singing.
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Four Elements Cover all of creation. They symbolize the four basic condition.
Without each of the four elements, we will not be able to exist.
They're like magic string instrument.
From the silence, barely heard, in the air first arises, a note. She is like the first raindrop of the long-awaited rain... Fall on dry land a drop by drop, like the note for note the rain quietly whispering in his heavenly song. And that's already everything around it starts to spin and dance in the fire, lightning otbleskakh podkhvatyvayemykh fury musical whirlwind. You're out on the ground and soar like a bird in the sky, only a thin string sound keeps and guides you in your sound journey.
Your conductors - erkin alexeyev, Nikolay Sobolev, Natalia Ducheva and Olga Prass.
Entrance-700 BR.
Waiting for you on Wednesday, July 13, in 18.30, the following promotions white clouds ", Pokrovka 4

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