Altai Khangai

Musician talking about khoomii and Altai Khangai

Altaï Khangaï from Full Rhizome on Vimeo.

Hos Ayas 2008

Sounds and images from the French-Mongolian musical festival, Hos Ayas

Altai-Khangai and beat-boxing

Altai-Khangai

To Lhasa.....

I woke up this morning to learn that one of my favorite singers, Lhasa de Sela had passed away....... Sad, sad news..... Repose toi en paix, ma belle.....


Lhasa: Rising (video)

Lhasa | MySpace Music Videos

Random Khusugtun and Altai-Khangai

These guys have become my latest favorites:

Khusugtun rocks. I like :-)
And a golden oldie:

Altai-Khangai

Hos Ayas 08

Some images from the Hos Ayas 08 festival:

Premier jour de résidence au camps de yourte

I am very fond of small festivals like this.
myspace.com/festivaldelavoix

Mongolia at the Olympic games

I was very excited to read in the news that Mongolian Gundegmaa Otryad had won a silver medal in the women’s 25m pistol shooting. Congratulations and good luck for the rest of the team!

Mongol Naadam by Altai-Khangai. A song about the Mongolian Olympics


Mongolia's medal count
UPDATE:
More good news for Mongolia: For the first time in the history of the Olympic games, the Mongolian anthem was played at an award ceremony thanks to a gold medal won by Tuvshinbayar Naidan in judo 100 kg:

What a moment....... beautiful

Only morin khuur

A selection of morin khuur melodies. The morin khuur music was declared world’s intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO for a good reason.

Melody of the Morin khuur by Altain Orgil

Guilgee by Altai-Khangai

Morin khuur by Temuzhin

Tatlagin kholboo by Hosoo & Transmongolia

Dorvon Berkh, music project

View a video here
Powerful stuff........
This project was created in 2007 . The aim was to reunite 4 of the biggest khoomii singers of Mongolia to perform together. The name, Dorvon Berkh, comes from a traditional ankle bone (shagai) game, the ankle bone has four different sides that symbolize four animals. When four bones are thrown and fall each on a different side, it is called dorvon berkh. This brings good luck and predicts an excellent future. Four different sides, four styles of khoomii: N. Sengedorj, B. Odsuren, D. Tserendavaa, N. Ganzorig.
Website (in French)

Altai-Khangai

I once saw Altai-Khangai (sometimes spelled Altai Hangai) playing live and it was a great experience, the way their singer performs khoomii is amazing