Tag Archives: throat singing

Jan 10 2013

Cygnet Festival – Tasmania | Friday 11 – Sunday 13 January 2013

Cygnet Festival - Tasmania

Bukhu & John Robinson

Horse and Wood

Mongolian horse Fiddle meets an Oud (The Wood in Arabic) in a unique fusion of galloping Mongolian rhythms, sparkling harmonic singing, and the warm, evocative nuances of the oud, and other exotic strings. An ethereal delight!

Horse and wood is recent project combining the sounds of the Mongolian Horse Fiddle and Harmonic throat singing from Bukhchuluun Ganburged with the classic Arabian textures of the Oud playing of John Robinson. The result is frequently undefinable but always spectacular.

Oct 11 2012

Mongolian Bling Documentary Film | Saturday 3 November 2012 Melbourne

Mongolian Bling

I’m playing before the screening Saturday 3 November 2012, 4pm

Mongolian Bling Trailer (3min) from benj binks on Vimeo.

Unclassified 15+
Benj Binks, 90 mins, Australia, 2012, Digital Betacam, In English, Russian and Mongolian with English subtitles.

Melbourne filmmaker Benj Binks travels to Mongolia to capture the incredibly vibrant hip hop scene.

Some of these hip hop artists cleverly blend centuries old Mongolian musical traditions with contemporary beats, to create a powerful new music movement that speaks to a post communist-era Mongolia.

A Q&A with the director follows this Melbourne premiere on Saturday 3 November.

Dates Sat 10 Nov 2012, 4pmSat 17 Nov 2012, 4pmSat 24 Nov 2012, 4pm
Location ACMI Cinemas
Admission Full/Concession $8 ACMI Member $6

http://www.acmi.net.au/oz_mongolian_bling.aspx

 

Nov 15 2011

Woodford Folk Festival – Folklorica | 29 & 30 December 2011

 

Woodford Folk Festival 2011-12

Folklorica

Folklorica is host to the Folklines programme, which presents the rituals, dance, music and songs of the many folk traditions that have come to Australia over the past 220 years. The beautiful, colourful Ratha Yatra Indian Chariot pulls up next to the venue when it’s not rolling through the streets. Folklorica comfortably seats a couple of hundred Festivillians – many of whom come only to see events in this programme at a lovely, breezy venue.

Feature: The Rhythm Divine

ABC Radio National presenter Geoff Wood explores music and song from the world’s religious and sacred traditions-from Indian classical music to mythic Mongolian fiddle and Khoomi chant, extraordinary songs of the Turkish Ashik mystic troubadours to Persian Sufi ney, finishing with the harmonic chant of Tibetan monks.

Friday 30th December 1:00pm

Feature: Ritual Music For Healing
Experience the ancient power of healing with ritual music from the magical Horse-head fiddle, the Morin Khuur to Tibetan monastic chant. Moving to Iran and the Middle East, the daf drum invokes the soul to help hasten the healing process in Sufi healing ceremonies.
Nov 4 2011

Bukhu with Nayika Group and Madakto

Bukhu with Nayika Group @ Paddington

 

This unusual Mehfil (an Indian cultured gathering with music and dance) features Bukhu, an oustanding Mongolian throat singer who plays the horse–hair fiddle, performing in collaboration with Nayika Group featuring Indu Balachandran (Karnatic vocalist) and Sivakumar Sethupathi (South Indian drummer). Evocative of the steppes of Mongolia, the throat singing enhances and complements Karnatic music, in an original and innovative concert.