Намгар (2003-2014)

Namgar es un grupo musical de Moscú que toca al estilo de la etno fusión mundial y creado en 2001 por el productor Arthur Pilyavin (el grupo Kvartal).

Namgar interpreta música tradicional y canciones de buriatios y mongoles , así como sus propias interpretaciones del folklore de los pueblos mongoles. El repertorio del grupo incluye canciones de baile Buryat ( Neryen y Yokhor ), tocar canciones del ring , canciones persistentes de Buryat, etc. Durante los primeros años de su existencia, el trabajo del colectivo fue renacentista: se utilizaron instrumentos acústicos y un repertorio tradicional.

En 2007-2008, el grupo creó un repertorio actualizado utilizando motivos y textos tradicionales en el contexto del sonido, teniendo en cuenta la experiencia de los géneros musicales modernos.

Nordic Namgar is fronted by the vocalists Namgar Lhasaranova from Buryatia, Russia (north of Mongolia) and Niillas Holmberg from Sápmi, a meeting between two of the most unique indigenous voices in the world today. Both represent their culture, music and tradition at a very high level, a remarkable collaboration between two voices that both contrast and complement each other.

Nordic Namgar started in 2013 as the Riddu Riđđu festival commisioned a piece by Ole Jørn Myklebust, an accomplished jazz and world musician. They have since performed in Norway, Russia and Kazakhstan.

A fusion of Buryat-Mongolian tradition and modern rock/jazz elements with haunting woman voice of Namgar, the Buryat star of traditional and modern music, and a blend of traditional and modern instruments that bring together images of the great wide open and modern drive.

The heart of group, Namgar whose name means “white cloud”, grew up in a tiny village of Kunkur near the border crossing of Mongolia,at SIberia (Buryat Republic). Namgar Lhasaranova’s voice is as immense as her Siberian homeland.The Buryat vocalist/instrumentalist fronts the group Namgar, which fuses traditional Buryat and Mongolian music with elements of pop, jazz, folk, ambient soundscapes and art-rock that doesn’t sound quite like anything else. Lhasaranova’s impressive vocal range can go from playful and childlike to gigantic and soaring within the space of a few minutes.The band uses traditional Mongolian instruments, including the yatag (a 13-stringed zither), the chanza (a three-stringed lute) and the morin khuur (a two-stringed bowed instrument), along with electric bass and drums to craft its unique sound, which it has been taking to festival stages around the world from Norway to Malaysia to the United States since forming in 2005.The melodic music Namgar creates was passed down to Lhasaranova from her grandparents and father, who sang to her as a child. The inventive arrangements are new, but the stories told in the songs are as old as the indigenous Buryats themselves, with tales and myths of ancient Mongol fighters, champions, horses and famous battles.

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 Nordic. Live at Riddu Riddu