Nina Hagen. In 1997, Namtchylak was horrifically attacked by Tuvinian racketeers which left her in a coma for two weeks. Again, sources regarding this contradict – others maintain that she underwent surgery for a severe malignant brain tumor; regardless, 1997 marked an appreciable change in her life. Since then, she has been resident in exile in Vienna, and has also recorded more prolifically as a solo artist – although she has released over thirty albums in the past twenty years, only seven have been entirely solo. Namtchylak claims that music and spirituality are related by desire, or the tension that yells to reawaken people. Eager to take part in the process of remembering what has been forgotten, Stepmother City presents itself like a map, proposing routes to connect Western physicality with Eastern spirituality. In 2005, the Italian publishing house Libero di Scrivere released a book of poetry Karmaland. In 2006 in Saint Petersburg, a book Chelo-Vek (a play on words in Russian, conflating "chelovek" meaning "person" and, though the hyphen, obsoletism "chelo" meaning "front" or "forehead" and "vek" meaning "age" or "eon" or "century", into something like "front-eon") was published in Russian, Tuvinian and in English. in 2016, she released "like a bird or spirit, not a face", an album produced by Grammy-winner Ian Brennan (music producer, author) and featuring members of Tinariwen. Discography Albums Transformation of Matter, DOCUMENT, vol. V 1990, with TRI-O, Leo Records London UK Tunguska-guska, 1991, Eine Meteoriten-Oper, EFA-Schneeball Germany Lost Rivers, 1991, FMP Germany When the sun is out..., 1991, FMP-Berlin Germany Octet-Ost, 1991, with Christian Muthspiel, Amadeo Austria Marsias Song, 1992, with Mattias Ziegler and Mark Dresser, Zürich Switzerland Pulse, 1992, with Michael Sievert, Dizzy Essentials Germany (Helmut Diez) Live, 1993, with Kang Tae Hwan, Free Improvisation Network Record Japan Out Of Tuva, 1993, Crammed World Belgium Expos Jazz & Joy, 1993, Ver Abra records Germany Mixing it, 1993, Chill out Label London UK Synergetics Phonomanie III, 1993, Leo Records LR Live at City Garden, 1994, with Moscow Composers Orchestra, U-Sound The First Take, 1994, with Biosintes, FMP 80 Berlin Germany Dancing on the Island, 1994, with Irene Becker Techno mit Störungen, 1995, Plag Dich Nicht Mars song, 1996, with Evan Parker, Victo Canada Amulet, 1996, with Ned Rothenberg, Leo records London UK An Italian Love Affair, 1996, with Moscow Composers Orchestra, Leo Records London UK The Gift, 1996, with Moscow Composers Orchestra, Long