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Hanggai is a Chinese folk music group from Beijing who specialize in a blend of Mongolian folk music and more modern styles such as punk rock.
Hanggai is made up of young musicians from Beijing and from the Inner Mongolia Mongol Autonomous Region in modern day People’s Republic of China. Satisfying the demand for the romanticized and mysticized Mongolian music in China, Hanggai presents Mongolian folk songs in conjunction with western and Chinese influenced drumming and other techniques (albeit with some sacrifice to lyrical clarity), hence makes the traditional Mongolian art more comprehensible to foreigners in China and the west.
“…The word ‘hanggai’ is Mongolian, describing an idealised grassland landscape of mountains, trees, rivers and blue skies.
Hanggai’s leader, Ilchi, was fronting a punk band until he experienced a conversion after hearing traditional overtone singing. He travelled to his father’s homeland of Inner Mongolia and started to learn the technique – rediscovering the music and the repertoire of songs that had faded but not disappeared during China’s turbulent past. There he met Hugejiltu and Bagen, both music students, who joined the group. Hugejiltu plays lead fiddle and Bagen sings deep bass using a technique of overtone singing, producing a note one octave below the note he is singing.
The songs on the album are adaptations of traditional songs from the grasslands, sung in Mongolian, many using hoomei, a throat-singing technique that has been handed down over hundreds of years. At the heart of the music are two traditional instruments – the morin khuur – the horse-hair fiddle and the tobshuur – a strummed two-stringed lute.
Hanggai is made up of young musicians from Beijing and from the Inner Mongolia Mongol Autonomous Region in modern day People’s Republic of China. Satisfying the demand for the romanticized and mysticized Mongolian music in China, Hanggai presents Mongolian folk songs in conjunction with western and Chinese influenced drumming and other techniques (albeit with some sacrifice to lyrical clarity), hence makes the traditional Mongolian art more comprehensible to foreigners in China and the west.
“…The word ‘hanggai’ is Mongolian, describing an idealised grassland landscape of mountains, trees, rivers and blue skies.
Hanggai’s leader, Ilchi, was fronting a punk band until he experienced a conversion after hearing traditional overtone singing. He travelled to his father’s homeland of Inner Mongolia and started to learn the technique – rediscovering the music and the repertoire of songs that had faded but not disappeared during China’s turbulent past. There he met Hugejiltu and Bagen, both music students, who joined the group. Hugejiltu plays lead fiddle and Bagen sings deep bass using a technique of overtone singing, producing a note one octave below the note he is singing.
The songs on the album are adaptations of traditional songs from the grasslands, sung in Mongolian, many using hoomei, a throat-singing technique that has been handed down over hundreds of years. At the heart of the music are two traditional instruments – the morin khuur – the horse-hair fiddle and the tobshuur – a strummed two-stringed lute.
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| FULL TRACK My Banjo and I | 3:43 |
| FULL TRACK Wuji | 2:35 |
| FULL TRACK Lullaby (Borulai) | 3:54 |
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Introducing Hanggai
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iconan wrote:
-.-.-.-. om hari om .....
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JanViool wrote:
Lees het artikel over Hanggai in New Folk Sounds 138 (december 2011/januari 2012). www.newfolksounds.nl
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RIPcamp wrote:
beautiful...
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Etothe3 wrote:
People who love Hanggai should try Altan Urag and The Black Horse Ensemble. Throat Singing FTW!
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DarkGoba wrote:
шикарная группа, горловое пение - это круто
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psih-ad wrote:
тащюсь
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xxweirdwonderxx wrote:
FFF THEY CAME TO NY AND I COULDN'T SEE THEM D:
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DarkMage530 wrote:
Drinking Song! google music ftw!
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topolis4 wrote:
cool! the song Togur jin Mountain is the best!
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strajnic wrote:
mongoloid android folk rules!
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kuchisakeonna wrote:
This group is awesome! I'm glad a friend told me about them.
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xxweirdwonderxx wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Hanggai/+images/57564329
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xxweirdwonderxx wrote:
Come to US :3
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Imlikemarly wrote:
he so cute!
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ibadrobot wrote:
Ze zijn fantastisch! :D (proost!)
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frankgijselhart wrote:
super!!! vandaag in Tilburg
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Servaasvg wrote:
Hanggai Tivoli was nice
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Squareses wrote:
sure do wish they'd come to the states
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Purplehazard wrote:
Just went to see you guys day before yesterday in Tivoli Utrecht NL, absolutely amazing! This is what making music should be all about. Can't wait to see you again!
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PaganRoots wrote:
Live shows of Hanggai are amazing :)
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HE WHO TRAVELS FAR - THE NEW ALBUM from HANGGAI
16 Jan 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/hanggaiband
From the wild open grasslands of Inner Mongolia to the
teaming, churning streets of 21st century Beijing via the
looking-glass world of rock, pop and bluegrass as seen and heard
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21 Jun 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/hanggaiband -
15 Apr 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/hanggaiband -
14 Apr 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/hanggaiband
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zielony_mol and jessdunnthis added Hanggai to their libraries. yesterday evening
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cgern tagged Hanggai with ‘world’. Monday morning
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katatonic13 tagged Hanggai with ‘seen live’. last week
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s-aina, FundamentalNail, lorenzoeben and 5 other people added Hanggai to their libraries. last week
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klimaz tagged Hanggai with ‘central asian’. last month
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IdleThoughts tagged Hanggai with ‘seen live’. last month
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Acid_Monk created the Russian wiki page for Hanggai. last month
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yelmsage added Hanggai to yelmsage’s library. last month
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EricDodson added Hanggai to the lineup of Hanggai at The Basement. December 2011
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lukifer7, scook48227 and zongningcom added Hanggai to their libraries. December 2011
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