In the South of the Northern Altai (Hа юге северноro Алтая) 

Lyrics: Andy Bauer & Tran Nguyen

Length: 4:54

Languages: English, Tuvan, Russian

Theme: "Liminality" (ортуку делегей (эргин)) Within the very moments and spaces where passion is born.

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 Lyrics (English-Tuvan-Russian) 

                                                     
On a night, quiet in the, the moonlight, river’s edge, a young believer’s forest bed... The mist veiled elk bugle faintly nostalgic tunes.
                   
I have too, seen the portrayal of an Аңчы (hunter) with his Амырга (Amyga hunting horn).
On his way to split logs aside his cabin...
He was engaged in animistic negotiations as well as silent contemplations.
                   
Though this mural hangs frozen, it somehow whispers to you...
That “there is more than you think between colors that a paintbrush once stroked...” 
As I heard it said a girl came passing by...
                   
Standing we were in the halls of a depot station
From the masterpiece onward to me she gazed 
And with this Began a romance northbound...
                   
Dreamin, to believe in, seeing...
In that same dreamy moment our spirits met through our eyes And it embarked us to a place that could never ever be reached by any man-made trains…

Swept aboard just before northern lights… 
Could dance freely above the sky’s temptation.

Swept aboard somewhere before the northern lights... 
Start to dance freely above the sky’s temptation.
                   
This somewhere is somewhere and it is surely in the south of the northern Altai.
 

Breakdown (Tuvan) 

удазынның ужугу дег, узун баткан хандагайты (thread  (like result of thread))     
уран кыстар даараан ышкаш, угулза дег хандагайты, хандагайты хандагайты

Meaning In English:

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Oh the river that flows from there is like a thread, it is so long…

Oh this beautiful river is like the pattern that good sewing master girls wove…

Oh it is my Handagaity river...

И если вы спросите: “где находится это место?”
(And if you were to ask, where is this place?)
Я могу ответить только там. На юге северного Алтая...
*“I can only answer, there, in the south of the northern Altai”)

To the lands near the end of the end and the beginning of the beginning. 

We all shall be dreaming to the north...
It’s a peace, it’s a place, it’s a silence.
It’s the Altai, not your inner taiga.                                                     

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 Lyric Translations 

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《砍树的阿尔泰人》（​歌词汉语翻译）

在一个夜晚，万物寂静，月光下，河边

一个年轻的信仰者的丛林之中...   

传来被薄雾遮蔽了的

麋鹿号角发出的怀旧曲调，微弱而柔和

我看到一幅画像

一位猎人，带着他的猎号

在去往他的小屋旁木栅栏的路上…

他沉浸在与神灵的沟通与沉默的思考中

虽然这壁画冰冷地挂着

但它却不知何故地在向你低声呢喃着…

那“画笔曾经抚过的色彩远远超过你的想象…”

我听见有个女孩路过并看到那幅画…                            

我们站在车站的大厅里

她向我凝视

并由此开始了浪漫的北行…                            

在一个相同的梦幻时刻

我们的灵魂通过彼此的眼睛相遇

它把我们带到了一个地方

“梦想…信仰…显现……”

那是一个任何人造的列车永远也无法抵达的地方…    

就在北极光席卷之前…

可以在上苍的诱惑下自由地舞蹈的地方

在北极光之前席卷到某个地方…

开始在上苍的诱惑下自由地舞蹈。

那某个地方一定就是在阿尔泰南部之北

哦

从这里流过的河流就像一条线

它是那样的长…哦

这条美丽的河流

就像是擅长缝纫的女孩编织的图案

哦

这是我的汉达盖提河…

如果你要问，“这个地方在哪里？”

我只能回答：“这里，在阿尔泰北部之南。”

那是一个既是起点又是终点的土地

我们都将梦想着北方…

这是一份宁静，这是一方乐土，这是一片沉默

这是阿尔泰，你心灵深处的那片针叶林

Featured Instruments & Collaborative Members

12-String Guitar, Industrial Percussion, Cathedral Pipe Organ, Electronic Atmospheres: Andy Bauer

Byzaanchy: Radik Tyulyush

Snare: Bailak Mongush

Duyug & Bells: Ayan Shirizhik

Igil: Doshpuluur: Bady-Dorzhu Ondar

Qomuz: Bady-Dorzhu Ondar

Lead Vocals: Andy Bauer (English/Russian); Tran Nguyen (English/Tuvan), Radik Tyulyush (English/Tuvan); Memetjan Metqasim (English)

Tuvan Throatsinging: Ayan-ool Sam (khoomei, sygyrt, dag kargyraazy); Bady-Dorzhu Ondar (khoomei, sygyrt, borbangnadyr); Ayan Shirizhik (khoomei, sygyrt, borbangnadyr); Radik Tyulyush (khoomei through English), Andy Bauer (khoomei, bur (wolf) kargyraazy)

Tuvan Classical Singing: Radik Tyulyush

Back Up Vocals: Tran Nguyen, Memetjan Metqasim

Production Affiliates

Studio Directors: Sean Quirk (Alash Ensemble); Travis Wyrick

Vocal Producers: Barry Brown

Percussion: Sholban Mongush

Studio Engineers: Xiaobai; Travis’s Assistant

Percussion Direction: Sholban Mongush

Post-Production Affiliates

Mixing Concept: Andy Bauer

Engineering: Chingis Sorju
Mixing Producer: Misha Oshkanov

Mastering: Gavin Tempany