Another massacred song....... Just like the ninja-type thief in this vid, I got scared of the creepy ghost lady and the interpretation of this beautiful traditional song. The video is not so bad, it's quite entertaining, actually, just put the volume down. I did a post some time ago about contemporary music meeting traditional music and this is an example of an experiment gone wrong. Deep Forest also sampled this song.... *sighs* and *shakes head*
If you think I am being too harsh, listen to how traditional artists interpret this song:
Mandakh nar by Altain Orgil
Friday, November 14, 2008
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I absolutely agree. In general I think that rap is not a Mongolian thing. It just doesn't sound good! And the video is annoying! The whole thing is a mixture of Deep forest and Engima music, some kung-fu and Star Wars movies.
Well, there are good rap singers in mongolia, but in this case , the mixture doesn't work very well, plus they tried to copy Enigma too much.
Btw, I'm not sure if you saw a comment that followed my posting of this song, but the moaning is in fact the melody for "Auschwitz", a gypsy lament for those that perished during WW2 at Auschwitz. Though I definitely prefer the gypsy version to the Deep Forest moaning. The song is from the soundtrack of Latcho Drom, a documentary about gypsy music across the world. The soundtrack and the documentary are well worth checking out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5yItOCSEM
Too bad that Deep forest mixed songs that have nothing to do in common, it kind of loses its significance when it is sampled like that
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