Askar Grey Wolf at Auckland Lantern Festival 2011.MOV

From the mystical steppes of Xinjiang, on the far western boundaries of the vast Chinese state, comes a band that fuses the old songs of the Silk Road with modern rock guitar riffs.

Headed by lead singer Askar Mamat, an Uyghur by birth, the band are pioneers of Chinese rock music. Askar sings in both Mandarin and Uyghur, his mother tongue. The band members are drawn from both the Han and Uyghur ethnicities.

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