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 Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar
Zastiin Nogoodoi - Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia (self release, 2007)
Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar has recorded an album that preserves the rich tradition of her people. She is a member of the Zakhchin tribe, an ethnic minority in the steppes of Western Mongoilia with a population of 25.000 people, who speak their own dialect and keep their traditions alive up to today. Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia is her release in a series dedicated to the music of the Zakhchin people. Her previous releases are “Songs of the Zakhchin People in Western Mongolia” and Zast Altai.
The 32 songs Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar are "short songs" (bogino duu) and "long songs" (urtiin duu) style, which are normally performed by women. They are normally sung a cappela or accompanied by the tobshuur (a long necked lute). In this project, she is accompanied by Wolfgang Hofer.
Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar's mission is to collect and preserve many of the songs from rural areas that are in danger of being lost . With Zastiin Nogoodoi - Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia she has taken a monumental step by registereinga beautiful collection collection of music from her homeland.
More information at: http://www.zakhchin.com.
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