Album: Mamer, Eagle, (Real World)
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Your support makes all the difference.Our first whiff of "Chinagrass" came when a Mongolian band called Hanggai, with the morin khuur horse-hair fiddle as their primary instrument, introduced us to this new Chinese sound world.
Now they are back, as part of a group whose leader, Mamer, has been christened the Lou Reed of the grasslands. A cult figure on Beijing's music scene, he's blended Western rock and electronica with the music he grew up with: throat-singing, the Jew's harp and flute, plus gently trotting vocal lines by men who grew up in the saddle. Irresistible.
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