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A VOICE ON THE EDGE - A JOURNEY OF EXTREMES
The locations: a baroque concert hall in England, a run down club in Rome, a
dusty square in a far corner of the world. The music: jazz, pop and drum\\\'n\\\'base.
The woman: a vocal miracle, full of energy, hurt, a grandmother and friend.
Sainkho Namtchylak opens the room with her voice, transforms her whispering
abruptly into a scream, adds overtone sounds to scat singing. Seeing and hearing
her one begins to presume that this woman combines more than just musical styles
in her persona.
"Sainkho" is a portrait of a woman who was born in Tuva, a stretch of land on
the border to Mongolia. Not even 20, she is drawn to Moscow. Here she encounters
jazz, which makes her known across the West. She travels the world. Her voice
and her music are her luggage. "Sainkho" is a road movie, visiting the typical
stops of a concert tour, returning home to Tuva with the film´s protagonist. A
concert film that documents her moving performances. And a portrait that
cautiously tries to sense something of the musician´s history. Apart from that,
"Sainkho" is something else. The film documents the search of an uprooted
traveller between the worlds, who defines herself through music. It tells the
story of a life, that took its toll from its protagonist. It is an attempt to
get closer to a woman, who with her voice alone can keep anyone at bay. It hints
at what she goes and went through without selling her secrets.
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