"Zazal" - Egschiglen

• artist:
  Egschiglen
• country:
  Germany
• release year:
  2002
• style(s): Asian Classical
• formats:
  • CD (Compact Disc)
• record submitted by:
  alba Kultur
• label:
  Heaven & Earth
• publisher:
  Heaven & Earth

"...Never pushed by the urgency of modernism or global hybrids, Egschiglen toys with melodic transpositions to develop bright, shining music composed of strange trills, guttural sounds and pentatonic exesses.
In haramgui can be found a soft and simultaneously yearning diphonic khöömi by tightrope walker Amartuwshin Baasandorj, whose talents have developped extraordinary expression with references to eternity and fleeting moments.
In the very melancholic helengiin barya Tumursaihan Yanlav follows with his moriin khuur the serpentine loops of the river Herlen in central east Mongolia.
With the performance of Concert for moriin khuur, a major work of contemporary Mongolian composer Hangal, who died in 1996, Egschiglen cut the umbilical cord of tradition to enjoy further musical freedom.
Talin salhi, an improvisation based interestingly on a Japanese melody of poems telling the advantures of Gengis Khan, is the final break with the norm: The result of which is the very first roots-orientated rap music in Mongolian history.
Egschiglen's original music is born of a balance of steadfastness and movement, of tradition and modernism, of sound and time. One hears the wind blowing through the lightness and quietness of endless grasslands in each jubilatory performance."
Charles Natsagdorj

"...folk music at it's best" (Jazzzeit / AUS)

**** (Rolling Stone / D)

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