CHYSKYYRAI
(Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 



Chyskyyrai creates evocative, passionate, powerful and dynamic music by employing a wide variety of traditional vocal techniques. Her performances create a character of a menerik woman, one possessed by the spirits. 

Chyskyyrai’s style could be described as shamanic hysterias, drawing on oral epics, folk songs and animal imitation, creating highly emotional vocal episodes full of dynamic contrasts. Her vocal improvisations can start from simple breathing and then blow up in psychedelic 
singing of a shaman. 

CHYSKYYRAI / Ürbüt Tymnyy Tyalym (The Cold Wind I Breathed Out)

CHYSKYYRAI (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 

Chyskyyrai creates evocative, passionate, powerful and dynamic music by employing a wide variety of traditional vocal techniques. Her performances create a character of a menerik woman, one possessed by the spirits. 

Chyskyyrai’s style could be described as shamanic hysterias, drawing on Sakha oral epics, folk songs and animal imitation, creating highly emotional vocal episodes full of dynamic contrasts. Her vocal improvisations can start from simple breathing and then blow up in psychedelic singing of a shaman. 


CHYSKYYRAI / Witch Magazine (Brandy Steel)

CHYSKYYRAI (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 

Chyskyyrai creates evocative, passionate, powerful and dynamic music by employing a wide variety of traditional vocal techniques. Her performances create a character of a menerik woman, one possessed by the spirits. 

Chyskyyrai’s style could be described as shamanic hysterias, drawing on Sakha oral epics, folk songs and animal imitation, creating highly emotional vocal episodes full of dynamic contrasts. Her vocal improvisations can start from simple breathing and then blow up in psychedelic singing of a shaman. 

Misha Maltsev