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Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Ser (2018)

Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Ser (2018)

BAND/ARTIST: Urna Chahar-Tugchi

  • Title: Ser
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Uct
  • Genre: World; Folk
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 58:25
  • Total Size: 294 MB
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The grasslands of China’s Inner Mongolia region are far from any ocean, but Urna Chahar-Tugchi observes that her home turf is often called the “Sea of Songs”—a fitting metaphor for a rich musical culture and for Urna’s awe-inspiring voice, rising like a wave and sailing across a soundscape seemingly as expansive as her childhood horizon. She grew up in a family of herders, surrounded by head-high grass, sand dunes and big sky. At 18 she went east to study at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, but throughout her career she has traveled in every direction, singing traditional songs and her own compositions with subtle influences from the four winds. On Ser (Awakening), her ninth album, her Mongolian lyrics are in excellent company with Kroke, a Polish klezmer band that likewise branched out. Urna sings of family and identity, love and distance, nature and childhood. Horses are ever present in her stories, often carrying sons and daughters to faraway new homes. In the spiritual/personal title track, her voice climbs gradually with the rising sun (video 1) and the morning theme gathers momentum in Baigal Dalai (Infinite Nature, video 2). Zandan Hureng (My Sandalwood-Brown), describes a child riding away over dunes, ice, riverbed and mountain passes (video 3), while the title figure of Nonjiyaa is a bride leaving her homeland (video 4). Urna, who lives in Berlin, also left home but bridges gaps in time and space. Ten years ago she starred in The Two Horses of Genghis Khan, a documentary about an heirloom violin lost during China’s Cultural Revolution (trailer, video 5). It was in the 13th century that Genghis Khan’s descendants took Mongol power to its height by conquering China—the Song Dynasty, to be precise. Today this daughter of her people floats over a sea of grass and memory with her stunning, panoramic words and music. (Urna Chahar-Tugchi/UCT)

Ser credits
Urna Chahar-Tugchi: vocals, composer
Tomasz Kukurba: viola, percussion, vocals, flute
Jerzy Bawoł: accordion
Tomasz Lato: double bass

Tracklist:
01. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Zandan Hureng (feat. Kroke) (4:50)
02. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Nonjiyaa (feat. Kroke) (3:43)
03. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Ser / Laturna (feat. Kroke) (6:17)
04. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Baigal Dalai (feat. Kroke) (4:50)
05. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Undur Uul (feat. Kroke) (4:39)
06. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Jigder Nana (feat. Kroke) (2:04)
07. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Shirdegiin Chaidam (feat. Kroke) (6:04)
08. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Jergelgeen / Kukurna (feat. Kroke) (8:53)
09. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Altan Altan Jigjuuhai (feat. Kroke) (2:42)
10. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Erdenis (3:48)
11. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Duun / Bawurna (feat. Kroke) (4:33)
12. Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Beleg (feat. Kroke) (6:04)

Year 2018 | World | Folk | FLAC / APE

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