There is the folk rock band Altan Urag, whose music was featured in the 2007 film Mongol and in the Netflix show Marco Polo, and the Inner Mongolian Hanggai Band.Įthnomusicologist Charlotte D'Evelyn sees The Hu as trying to bring back traditions while also modernizing. The Hu is not the only Mongolian band that has attracted recent international attention. Mongolia "is at once a community and a culture that is part of Asia and Europe at the same time." "There is a kind of exoticism to Mongolia," says Hutchins.
Nomadism and horse culture has been romanticized, and the emphasis on freedom and heroes tends to appeal to the stereotypical male heavy metal fan. He believes part of the appeal of bands like The Hu is the way he believes the story of Mongolia has been written in the West. "But we didn't expect this fast, people just popping up everywhere." We think we will talk to everyone's soul through our music," says Temka through a translator. "When we do this, we try to spiritually express this beautiful thing about Mongolian music. Enkhsaikhan, known as "Enkush," who is a throat singer and a horsehead fiddle player. Temuulen aka "Temka," 28, who plays the Mongolian guitar, says their international popularity was something they expected - but not in the millions. Nyamjantsan, who goes by "Jaya," 35, still teaches at the conservatory. The four members of The Hu all learned to play traditional Mongolian instruments at the Mongolian State conservatory. Band members tended to be trained in conservatories on traditional instruments. Soon after, Mongolians started to form folk rock and folk jazz ensembles. It was then that rock became popular as a form of political protest. Lines about neglecting their ancestors - like "taking our great Mongol ancestors names in vain" - are almost exactly what was sung in the late 1980s during the transition to democracy, says Hutchins. It is a familiar message to Kip Hutchins, a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. The message they hope to convey through their lyrics and imagery is that people need to pay attention to nature and their history and culture, explains lead singer TS. A door is opened and the band's four members step into different natural settings: cliffs, desert, forest and lake. The video begins with images of people inside playing video games, watching television and looking at their phones. In the band's first song, "Yuve Yuve Yu" (What's going on?), they mention Genghis Khan and how he was fated to bring nations together. It is not just their instruments that incorporate traditional elements. Make something new," says Dashka, who spoke through a translator via Skype. "We wanted to come up with our own thing that we can offer to this big music family.
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In throat singing, associated with pastoral herders in Central Asia, the singer produces a low constant sort of drone at the same time as a series of higher tones. It produces a sound similar to a violin and can be used to imitate the sound of a herd of horses. The two-stringed horsehead fiddle is shaped to resemble a horse and includes the carving of a horse head and strings and bow made of horsehair. Mongolian musical culture is tied up with their pastoral way of life. For the album, the idea was to find, study and incorporate as much of Mongolia's musical culture as they could into a rock style, says the band's 52-year-old producer and songwriter, B. They plan to call it Gereg, the name for a diplomatic passport used during the time of Genghis Khan. The Hu call their style "hunnu rock" - from the Mongolian root word for human being: "hu." The band spent seven years putting together its first album, which it expects to release this spring. Those who study Mongolian music believe one reason The Hu has proved so popular with outsiders is this combining of modern and historical and Eastern and Western elements.
It also involves singing in a guttural way known as throat singing while throwing heads back and forth reminiscent of the headbanging of '80s heavy metal bands like Metallica. Mongolian rock combines traditional Mongolian instruments, like a horsehead fiddle ( morin khuur), Jew's harp ( tumur khuur) and Mongolian guitar ( tovshuur) with the pounding bass and drums of rock. Goats and Soda To Fight Pollution, He's Reinventing The Mongolian Tent
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