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When Beijing-based punk rocker Ilchi heard throat singing for the first time, he was determined to investigate his family’s Inner Mongolian heritage. He journeyed there, met two traditional musicians named Hugejiltu and Bagen, and soon Hanggai was born. Based in Beijing but devoted to traditional Mongolian songs, Hanggai’s spacious, undeniably gorgeous music has won it many fans –and accolades from international press including the Guardian, the Observer, Pitchfork, NPR, Popmatters and many more — as they embarked on their tour across all over the world.
After playing to a packed house at Yuyintang during the JUE Festival, the Mongolian five-piece is stepping it up a few notches, performing at Shanghai’s MAO Live House for the first time.
The venue is bigger, but the music will remain the intimate, powerful throat-singing and rock that has people singing their praises. If you’ve seen them before, you know why you can’t miss this show. If you missed their JUE performance, don’t make the same mistake twice!
Hanggai sing about Mongolian Robin Hoods, mix throat singing with rock instruments, and dress like men of the steppes even though they live in the teeming metropolis of Beijing. But embodying contradictions comes naturally to ethnic minorities in China — only this time it’s different.
With their elegant songs, top-notch production and strangely familiar tunes, Hanggai have made the leap from folk phenomenon to crossover pioneers — without losing their soul. This is a not-to-miss show. Music this powerfully intimate does not come around often.
About Song Yuzhe:
Rising to fame as the leader of one of China’s most acclaimed alt-rock bands, Wood Pushing Melon, Song Yuzhe embarked on a solo career after WPM disbanded in 2002.
Since then, Song has staked out a place at the forefront of China’s experimental music scene as both a musician and a recording engineer, reworking traditional folk ballads with new arrangements, and mixing his original music with ambient sounds recorded in Tibet and other minority regions in China.
He has also collaborated with avant-garde folk hero Xiao He to compose Two Big Men, a work that blends folk music and theater.
Friday, May 14
570 Huaihai Xi Lu, near Hongqiao Lu
6227-7332
RMB 60/40(with student ID)[:zh]
从芷江梦工场到育音堂，从育音堂到MAO Livehouse，杭盖在短短半年里演遍了上海最重要的三个演出场地。而乐队的口碑也是经过口口相传，来看演出的观众越来越多。古老的呼麦发声，加上朗朗上口的民族旋律，杭盖用极具特色的传统音乐打动了台下一群又一群观众。这次杭盖将和前木推瓜的主唱宋雨喆一起，在上海MAO给我们带来又一次的惊喜。
杭盖介绍
杭盖，一个古老的蒙古语单词，它的意思是：一个有着蓝天、白云、草原、河流、山和树林的世界。杭盖由五名来自中国各地的年轻音乐家组成，是一支投身蒙古音乐的乐队。乐手分别为蒙古族和汉族，乐器则包括马头琴、陶布叔尔（蒙古的弹拨乐器）、吉他、贝司、鼓等，或许还应该算上那种奇特的“乐器”——呼麦，用嗓子同时发出两个甚至三个音的演唱技法。通过汲取、融合和发展不同地区的蒙古传统音乐，杭盖正从时间长河的近端迈向最远的一端，而对经过了长期摇滚乐和地下文化洗礼的他们来说，这两个极点之间的距离，也许是最近的。“生长在城市的蒙古人，还会想念他们的草原吗？”其实，这个问题属于所有的当代人，属于所有那些开始想念根的孩子们。偶尔人们会提起这支乐队的前身，它曾经批判，它曾经咆哮，甚至出版过新金属风格的唱片，但那已是过去，而杭盖是今天，也是未来。
首张专辑“介绍杭盖”为这个游牧在北京的蒙古乐队赢得了包括全世界最有影响力的音乐网站Pitchfork和英国卫报的好评。杭盖的现场表演不仅是蒙古传统呼麦技巧、民谣与摇滚乐的巧妙结合，更以暴风骤雨般的激情和难以捉摸的技巧传达了他们的喜怒哀乐。语言和文化的陌生已不重要，听着杭盖的音乐，你会开始向往那个有着辽阔草原的天堂家园。
宋雨喆介绍
宋雨喆因为曾是乐队“木推瓜”的主脑而为人所知。2002年木推瓜解散以后，他便开始了自己的个人民谣生涯。
这几年中，他游走讨教、研习音乐，参加即兴团体美之瓜，出版同名专辑，并与音乐家小河合作了“两个大人”计划(探索不同民间音乐形式与戏剧、戏曲的融合)
5月14日|周五 晚21点
@ MAO Livehouse
地址：上海市徐汇区淮海西路570弄，近虹桥路
票价：60元/ 40元(凭学生证)
电话：021-62277332
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