Purba

Purba is a musical and theatre project formed in Moscow in 1996. Their music is based upon the ancient sacral ceremonies of the Bon tradition (the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet) and the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The musicians play authentic Tibetan traditional instruments, use overtone singing as well as musique concrete, noise, electronic, drone, industrial and ritual performance. Members: Svyatoslav Ponomarev (1996-present) Alexander Ponomarev (2020-present) Former members: Alexey Tegin (Phurpa) (1996-2001) Roman Turchak (1996, 2016) Igor Yanchyoglov (Lungta) (1996-2000) Nikita Korolev (2012-2015, 2017, 2018, 2019) Anton Kolosov (2013) Petr Smirnov (2013) Anatoly Golyshev (2013) Sergey Samsonov (2015-2017) Dmitriy Cheglakov (2015-2017) Pavel Selchukov (2017, 2018, 2019) Daniil Zotov (2017, 2018, 2019) Alexander Glybin (2017) Andrey Vershinin (2018) Kate Mur (2020) Alesia White Bird (2020-2021) Live members: Andrey Petrov (2011) Dmitriy Cheglakov (2011, 2018, 2019) Iraida Yusupova (2011) Olga Grechko (2011) Paulina Logacheva (2013) Tatiana Mikheeva (2018)