Move over, Celts and Vikings—Mongol-horde metal is here. Traditional Mongolian and Tuvan music make natural raw materials for folk-metal fusion, with their regal, windswept tonal palette, their challenging, eerie-sounding vocal styles, and their epic, equestrian-warrior-themed lyrics. So while I’m not the least bit shocked that the Hu (“hu” is a Mongolian root word for a […]
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John Becker of Vaskula on the best gothic rock being recorded today
Current musical obsessions of Vaskula’s John Becker, Plague Bringer’s Greg Ratajczak, and the Reader’s Philip Montoro
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Tengger Cavalry fuse Mongolian folk and death metal on the new Blood Sacrifice Shaman
Nature Ganganbaigal translates his Mongolian culture into the international language of metal with a combination of throat singing, horsehead fiddle, and galloping riffs.
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Listen to the ear-clearing work of Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq
A visceral song from her recent album Animism
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Arrington de Dionyso’s Dionysian Chaos
Arrington de Dionyso I can’t say I’ve ever actually enjoyed the music of Arrington de Dionyso, the man behind weirdo garage-roots band Old Time Relijun. But I’ll confess to a grudging admiration for his devotion to his work and his commitment to exploration, particularly in his most recent output.
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Inuit intuition
A new album by Candian singer Tagaq takes an Inuit vocal tradition in wild new directions.