Metamorphoses

Today, the first of three episodes devoted to music from Mongolia. The Huun-Huur-Tu group has been featured at Concertzender live  before, with recordings of this remarkable group from the area on the border between Siberia and Mongolia. This four-man formation is known mainly for their virtuoso mastery of overtone singing. This special singing technique might be best described as a sort of one-man polyphony using the larnyx.
It is, just like the long songs of singers Ala-Tan-Chi-Chi-Ge and Zha-Ge-Du-Su-Rong heard later in this programme, a characteristic part of the Mongolian music tradition.

‘Long’ does not refer to the length of the songs, on the contrary. Most of the songs are relatively short. The ‘long’ in long song refers mainly to the long phrasing of the lyrics that is meant to reinforce its poetic experience.

1. Oske Cherde (Huun-Huur-Tu/trad.)
   CD. Huun-Huur-Tu. Sixty Horse in My Herd Shanachie (1993) 64050
2. Kombu (Huun-Huur-Tu/trad.)
3. Mezhegel (Huun-Huur-Tu/trad.)
4. Kongurei (Huun-Huur-Tu/trad.)
5. Fantasy on the Igil (Huun-Huur-Tu/trad.)
   CD. Huun-Huur-Tu. Sixty Horses in My Herd Shanachie (1993) 64050
6. A Brown Eagle (trad.)
7. Vast Grasslands (trad.)
8. Willow By the Riverside of Cha-Gan River (trad.)
9. Se-er-teng Mountain (trad.)
10. The Vast Grasslands (trad.)
    CD. The Mongolian Folk Long-Song  Windmusic (2008) TCD-1029
11. The Pacing Horse (trad.)
12. Horses With Tall and Slender Shapes (trad.)
13. Little Yellow Horses (trad.)
14. The Lonely White Baby Camel (trad.)
15. Da-Gu-La (trad.)
    CD. The Mongolian Folk Long-Song  Windmusic (2008) TCD-102