Mongolian sound finds new fans around the globe
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2016-10-24 07:30
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Hanggai band members include throat-singing vocalist and horse-head fiddle player Batubagen. [Photo by Nan Zi/China Daily] |
Sa, the winner of the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music for the Asia-Pacific region in 2007, had a party for Ezrin and she invited some local musicians. Ilchi, the vocalist and tobshuur (two-stringed lute) player of Hanggai, a band of ethnic Mongolian musicians, was there.
"Hi, I am Ilchi from Hanggai," he said to Ezrin.
"I know you and your band," replied the producer, who had heard Hanggai years earlier with Grammy-award winning musician Peter Gabriel.
"Really? Would you work with us?" asked Ilchi.
"Absolutely yes," Ezrin said.
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