Egschiglen - Gobi - Audio CD

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The Ensemble Egschiglen ("Beautiful Melody") was founded in 1991 in Mongolia by students of the Conservatoire of Ulaanbaatar. Even today the four founding members still comprise the core of the group. The musicians concentrated on the contemporary music of their country and explored the dimensions of the sound of this repertoire with traditional Mongolian instruments and the vocal techniques of Central Asia.
The music of a country is shaped by its landscapes and how the people live. Mongolia, in the heart of Asia, is a vast country, about five times the size of Germany. In the South the boundless grasslands transform into the arid beauty of the Gobi desert. Clear rivers flow from the snow-covered mountains of the Altai and the Khangai through the forests into the plains. A large percentage of the just over two million Mongolians today still live as nomads, in harmony with nature and together with their "five jewels": their horses, camels, cattle, sheep and goats. The music of the Mongolians breathes the vastness and freedom and the power of a life in harmony with nature and the elements.
The musicians of the ensemble Egschiglen are musical ambassadors of their country. They bring to us the virtuoso musicality and harmonious sounds of their culture. The name Egschiglen means "melodious sound" or "beautiful melody". Tume (Tumenbayar Migdorj) and Tumru (Tumursaihan Yardav) sing and play the horsehead-violin morin kbuur, a string instrument with two horsehair strings, which is played like a cello. Uugan (Uuganbaatar Tsend-Ochir) plucks or bows the ih kbuu (bass). The solo vocalist Amra (Amartuwshin Baasandorj) sings in the khoomii style and plays a swan neck lute, called a tobsbuur. Khoomii is a special kind of throat-singing, where overtones are formed in addition to the basic tone. Saran (Sarangerel Tserevsarnba) plays a hammered dulcimer, the joochin and she is also the 'female voice' of the ensemble. Boogi (Wandansenge Batbold) plays the far-eastern percussion instruments and expertly sings second solo voice. It is not possible, unfortunately, to convey the dance of Ariunaa, acoustically. She performs at the concerts of the ensemble.
The music of Egschiglen shows an impressive variety and delicacy of expression. They play traditional pieces and works of contemporary Mongolian composers in sophisticated arrangements. The pieces often show a chamber music-like transparency and delicacy, others are of a rousing, earthy power. Occasionally one may imagine hearing the hoof beat of the small, tough Mongolian horses, on whose backs Ghengis Khan had founded the largest world empire of all times. Other pieces will lead you into the clear silence of the Gobi desert, where you can hear the wind sing in the dunes.
On the one hand, Mongolian sounds are strange and mysterious to western ears Especially the khoomii-singing is baffling and seem unbelievable. All these very deep and very high sounds should come from one throat at the same time? (They do!) On the other hand the music feels deeply familiar, for it expresses elementary human feelings, like happiness, longing, mourning and thankfulness. The musicians of Egschiglen lead us far away into the fascinating culture of their distant home and at the same time into the common centre of all human existence, beyond all cultural differences.

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Gobi by Egschiglen (recorded 1997)

Quite contemporary arrangements of Magtaals, traditional melodies and western classical influenced pieces. The khöömii interest lies with the fantastic singing of Khosbayar who appears on five of the tracks on the CD. He along with Zulsar, seem to have created the kharkhiraa combined with khöömii style. All of the musicians are professionals and masters of their respective instruments.

1. Song of Praise to Genghis Khan 7’48 : A contemporary arrangement of this Magtaal with some great khöömii by Khosbajar and lush morin khuur playing
2. Gobi penetrating the Soul 7’39 : A Piece featuring exquisite Morin Khuur with a quaisi orchestral backing. It begins with a slow long song style movement followed by a fast horse galloping section mainly for yochin which leads into a very western style slower piece in which the yochin and morin khuur share roles.
3. Happy Milker 3’48 : Yatag and yoochin duo in two sections slow then fast, harking back to the times of the Yuan dynasty and the links that Mongolian music has with China.
4. Five different styles of Throat Singing 5’00 : When I saw Tserendaava in 1997 he thought that Khosbayar was a great young singer having control of the basic khöömii styles. This is basically an arrangement of Ganbold’s connecting khöömii styles. Khosbayar has a great tremolo on his karkhiraa and very good strength at his high-pitched drone khöömii. He manages a fairly good “borbannadyr” imitation and performs some fine nasal khöömii and does some strange glissando style tremelo on the last part of his kharkhiraa.
5. Concert for Joochin 4’53 : This is a Mongolian composed concerto for Joochin, a hammered dulcimer. It is far removed from the Mongolian tradition in that it uses diatonic major and minor scales and western classical music harmonies and cadences. The rhythmical aspect has the most Mongolian feel to it. This track clearly bears testament that many of the younger Mongolian musicians have been trained both in classical and traditional music.
6. Legend of a Horse 7’15 : Another Mongolian/classical crossover for Morin Khuurs. A slow romantic/melancholic section followed by the galloping section inspired by the Bii dancing of western Mongolia and returning to the slow movement of the beginning all in a strange hybrid classical diatonic/Mongolian pentatonic hybrid harmony.
7. Two Mongolian Traditional Songs 3.23 : A full ensemble plays these two pieces with Khosbayar singing his great “Zulsar” (I wonder who developed it first?) khöömii style of kharkhiraa combined with khöömii as well as some classical traditional khöömii.
8. On the High Henti Mountain 4.03 : Another ensemble piece with a slow then fast then medium section.
9. Manduul Khan 2.48 : Khosbayar sings this piece which has a slight Tuvan galloping feel at the beginning and then it moves into a duo of khöömii and khakhiraa (by Dagvan) with some tomor khuur speeding it all up to go back into the fast speedy section that it all starts with.
10. Concert for Jatang 8.03 : More western classical style Mongolian music.
11. Song of Praise to Altai and Changaj 5.07 : An Egschiglen style arrangement of this classic Magtaal.

Egschiglen are on this CD
Tumenbayar Migdorj - morin huur, voice
Huyagsaihan Luvsansharav - morin huur
Tumursaihan Janlav - morin huur, voice
Ganpurev Dagvan - bass, khoomii voice
Khosbajar Dangaa - khoomiii solo voice, tobshuur
Sarangerel Tserevsamba - joochin
Monh Erdene Chuluunbat - jatag

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