This post is way off topic, but let’s me expand upon the power of the web. Most of my career at Honeywell was spent leading various web initiatives. In fact, I built some of my company’s first external web sites in the early 1990’s. It is nothing short of amazing how the internet has changed our lives. I was actually using the web well before graphical browsers came on the scene. One needed to know UNIX. Regardless, on to today’s post …
I love folk music, and play the accordion. A favorite evening past time of mine is to explore YouTube watching / listening to folk music from around the world. Last night, this amazing Mongolian Band, The HU, was presented to me by YouTube as something I might enjoy. Oh my … too cool and fantastic. All four musicians play traditional folk instruments at the Mongolian Conservatory where one band member is a professor. National Public Radio recently featured the group in a long article.
The band combines the old and the new. This YouTube video features the band playing their music which incorporates a “heavy metal” sound, but also has them singing in a guttural way known as Mongolian throat singing. All their instruments are traditional. This is a unique and stunning sound.
As a fyi … I do not normally like heavy metal music, but this is something completely different. It is amazing what comes our way via the internet, including this blog. However, if you really want me to find a “bird connection” for this post, browse to YouTube and watch / listen to their video, The Wolf Totem. You will hear an eagle or hawk screaming.
Video of the band playing music below this image …
The HU! (skip to the 60 second mark to reach the music)
Do you know what kind of hawk it is? Ive been looking to identify it. Long story short, I heard a bird, recognized it from this song, and now I have to id it.
Hey Alex: As much as I love the Hu, I definitely do not know my Mongolian raptors! There is a long history of falconry in Mongolia.
You may wish to try this web site:
https://www.birdmongolia.com/birding-in-mongolia/raptors-in-mongolia/raptors-in-mongolia
Rich
The internet is truly amazing. I have been to Mongolia & saw many spectacular sites. But I missed this one. Thanks for the info, found it on YouTube .
Do you play the buttonbox accordion or piano accordion?
I play the piano accordion. Many years back I thought it might be fun to learn the buttonbox, but that instrument has no logic in terms of chord structure as to the placement of the buttons. Folks told me my mathematical mind would be driven crazy by that fact. It was an folk instrument where in years gone by folks who played it often could not read … songs were passed on from person to person. With the piano accordion the placement of keys and buttons are all based upon western culture’s rules of thirds.
Love the song traditional music combined with modern instruments!