Hanggai: Juan Zou De Ren (He Who Travels Far) – review

(World Connection)One of the most rousing and inventive folk-rock albums of the year comes from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, via Beijing. Hanggai's fearsome-looking singer Ilchi started out playing in punk bands, then travelled from the Chinese capital to his father's homeland to study the extraordinary art of growled overtone singing, a traditional technique in which two notes, an octave apart, are sung at the same time. A debut album, two years ago, showed the band experimenting in match...

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