Altan Urag

Altan Urag is a folk rock and ethnic band that fuses traditional Mongolian sound with a contemporary influence. The name Altan Urag can be loosely translated to Khans Kin or Golden Blood Line, referring to Chinggis Khan and his ancestors. The bands vision is to promote Mongolian culture to the world and introduce traditional music to the young people of the Mongolia. The band has seven members whose skills lie in playing the morin khuur (horse head fiddle), ih khuur (grand horse head fiddle), percussion, bishguur (traditional horn) and yaichin. The vocalists are throat singers and long song singers and all were trained in traditional and classical Mongolian music. The band has released two albums, Foals Been Born an ethnic contemporary album (2004), and Made in Altan Urag, a folk-rock album (Sonor Records 2006). Four new albums will be released in early 2009, marking a culmination in a prolific phase in Altan Urags work. Blood (folk rock), Hypnotism (contemporary), Once Upon a Time in Mongolia (ethnic) and Nation (traditional folk) use the artists incredible skills to explore different genres of Altan Urags music and demonstrate their powerful and soulful sound.Altan Urag has produced the soundtrack for two international movies. The first soundtrack Mother Mongolia was produced for the movie Khadak (2006) directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth and the second was Blue Marked Nation for the movie Mongol (2008) directed by Sergei Bodrov. Khadak and Mother Mongolia have been nominated and won several film awards including the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the Venice Film Festival (2006), Silver Medal at the Spirit of Fire Russian International Film Festival and awards at Bratislava, Flanders, Oslo and Washington DC (Environmental Film) festivals. Mother Mongolia won Best Music at the 2007 Cyprus International Film Festival and Khadak is currently nominated at the following places and festivals: Sao Paulo, Thessaloniki, Mar del Plata, Leeds, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Bangkok, Moscow (German Film Event), Vilnius, Warsaw, Istanbul, Innsbruck and Rome (Desert Nights). Mongol was released in 2008 and has been nominated for several awards including best foreign language film for the 2007 Academy Awards. Mongol swept the Nika awards (2008) with six awards, won Best Sound Design at the Golden Eagle Awards (Russia), the Best Foreign Language Film at the National Board of Review (USA) was nominated at the European Film Awards (2008) and Image Awards (2009). Of Altan Urags music Sergei Bodrov says... go check their myspace out..

their official website is www.altanurag.mn
myspace : www.myspace.com/altanurag

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mongol
• ulaanbaatar
• ulan
• bator
• ub
• ikh
• ih
• mgl
• urak
• soundtrack

[ps3matty]

Folk post punk I would say.

[next675]

wowowow

that is COOOL

[hlvas]

Well said and in Greece too...

[MegaTweettweet]

you guys are cool =)

Hope you come to sweden sometime!