Barrelhouse & Altai Hangai 'Hard Time Killing Floor'

Unique in many ways! Mongol Atai-Hangai singers are very special according world standards. Being one of Mongolia's most exciting musical groups, they are wellknown around the world because of the fascinating sound of "throatsinging". Throatsinging seems to be a speciality at the Mongol Academy of Music which learns a technique of using your voice in a very non-traditional way.
While their basis is traditional Mongolian music, Altai-Hangai has cooperated with jazz musicians, symphonic orchestras, dancers and actors at numerous venues in Germany, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, and Norway.
Back in 1998 one of the members of best Dutch Bluesband Barrelhouse coincidentely caught their attention during a stay in Amsterdam. They decided to perform together and luckely for us on YouTube it was recorded for "Twee Meter Sessies", a Dutch television program.
'Hard Time Killing Floor', composed by Skip James, shows that the Mongol Altai Hangai goes very well together with tradition western blues.
The cooperation with Barrelhouse is unique in many ways. Barrelhouse, with leadsinger Tineke Schoemaker, still performs this song on liveshows. I think it's thrilling to discover how they've managed to give this song an identity according their own standards. Indeed, unique in many ways! I think it's praiseworthy the way they succeed to bring two worlds together. The version of 'Hard Time Killing Floor', without Altai Hangai, can be found at Barrelhouse' website.
Please visit www.barrelhouse.nl and choose your song at the right top corner.

Category:

Music

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• barrelhouse
• Tineke_Schoemaker
• throatsinging
• blues
• mongol
• twee
• meter
• altai
• hangai

[fallfrukt]

Unlike classical music, folk music, including these old blues tunes, is generally not written but rather passed along in the oral tradition. Everyone is free to make the song their own and to play them either as they see fit, as they can, or as they can remember. I think that's the beauty of it. Saying, "at least learn the lyrics" just sounds stuffy to me in this context! If it were Mozart, I would agree with you.

[longtoothslim]

What is a "biatch" ?

[mynamebart]

Thanks, peopel are great. Makes me smile this song. Like it.

[fivethumbsfrank]

@analyzingfunny HAHAHA, I really shouldn't laugh but that's a great observation...but where is Olive?

[KnotYourMammasPearls]

This is beautiful.

[archolman]

I like this, & Altai-Hangai are some of the best live performers I've seen.

[archolman]

I like this.

[clovengoatlord]

@rainbowscythe That reminds me of a joke. What's the difference between a banjo and a morin kuhr? The banjo burns faster. haha, get it? Seriously, my only point was that in this rendition the entire feel and mood of the song was lost. The only thing this has in common with the original are the notes that were used. Is my reasoning so childlike to say that? Perhaps I don't spend enough time on Wikipedia looking up the obscure names to instruments that sound terrible to me.

[analyzingfunny]

That one guy sounds like Popeye!

[mary1raymond]

I don't understand this number of criticism to this ~ I think people are too often afraid of something a little different. I enjoyed this very much, and I think Skip James would have been thrilled to see this video.

[rainbowscythe]

@clovengoatlord How dumb are you that you think those are Chinese instruments? Or maybe you're just too lazy to look up "Morin Kuhr" on wikipedia. You're not shooting anyone down, child.

[Mpoongi]

Просто Алтай...))