The Stuff of which the internet is full
Oct. 13th, 2010 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe internet is so ful of stuff that I continue to be amazed by it, even though I know that the internet is so ful of stuff that I continue to be amazed by it.
Mongolian folk-rock, for example.
Friday's Guardian carries a review by Robin Denselow of an album called Juan Zou De Ren (He Who Travels Far) by a band called Hanggai; he makes it sound fun and very accessible. Back in the present day, that would have been that: I'd have thought "Sounds interesting," and probably forgotten about it.
But here in the future, we have the internet: Hanggai have a website, but it's in Chinese; but there are several sample tracks on their MySpace page and clips from the Union Chapel and the Shetland Folk Festival on YouTube (this promotional video makes a good entry point).
I suspect that connoisseurs of traditional Mongolian music wouldn't be impressed by its ferocious good humour, but the enthusiasm is infectious, and it's catchily tuneful.
Mongolian folk-rock, for example.
Friday's Guardian carries a review by Robin Denselow of an album called Juan Zou De Ren (He Who Travels Far) by a band called Hanggai; he makes it sound fun and very accessible. Back in the present day, that would have been that: I'd have thought "Sounds interesting," and probably forgotten about it.
But here in the future, we have the internet: Hanggai have a website, but it's in Chinese; but there are several sample tracks on their MySpace page and clips from the Union Chapel and the Shetland Folk Festival on YouTube (this promotional video makes a good entry point).
I suspect that connoisseurs of traditional Mongolian music wouldn't be impressed by its ferocious good humour, but the enthusiasm is infectious, and it's catchily tuneful.
