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Via Metafilter, we are introduced to the outstanding musical talents of Siberian folk-pop ensemble Otyken (Отукен, from a term in the nearly extinct local Tartar language Chulym designating a place of truce where feuding warriors lay down their arms for peace talks) through their new techno, noir jazz single, “Tundra,” performed in the indigenous Dolgan language, all members of various ethnicities of the Taiga, outfitted with traditional costumes and an assortment of native instruments fused with modern counterparts. The video below with the little kid trying to sneak into the show reminds me of Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.”