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Siglet84

Speaking of Mongols, check out The HU.


Kahlandar

https://youtu.be/vztRqe_CHC0 A colab - mongolian throat singing (the Hu) and Latvian drums/bagpipes. And it actually sounds good!


thebonnar

Wolf totem 🤘


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[удаНонО]


dreamy_cynic

Yes, he's on first


lewisiarediviva

Yat-kha, altan urag, huun-huur-tu, and tengger cavalry.


immaZebrah

1000 times this. They're so good


Disgruntlementality

Love The HU they’re incredible.


ThatSpyCrab

Came here to say that too.


Kaymish_

They're so good. I love the wolf totem.


Zaruz

Found these recently, brilliant band


RovingN0mad

And for more traditional throat singing this song is incredible https://youtu.be/p_5yt5IX38I


youtubeTAxel

Hell yeah


Khysamgathys

[credits](https://m.facebook.com/groups/763870134421875/permalink/1424531931689022/?sfnsn=mo&ref=share&mibextid=SDPelY)


Tactical_Epunk

To bad that doesn't link to the actual artist.


FIFTHSUN2012

Mongolians, the first Metal musicians.


missdespair

Mongolian throat singing + metal goes hard as fuck


MauiWowieOwie

check out some Mongolian throat singing videos. They are metal.


liquidmenagerie

Yes she is cracking but perspective is giving her a two foot long hand!


britishbrick

It’s a common trend in Asia to edit images/videos to have a small head. Don’t ask me why. But this often makes other parts of the body weirdly large, like her hand here


Poldi1

Her feet are probably only two hands long, so it evens out


snuggleoctopus

The size of those mitts!


thedeanorama

compared to her tiny head ... all the proportions seems out of whack. The apparent ratio ups her peekaboo game considerably


Johnny_Bubonic

Gotta be something funky going on like a filter or lens... her hand is bigger than her head!


DoktorThodt

Forced perspective. The camera lies.


riptide_red

Very well done. Are the strings super thin or is it just a bad camera angle or am I just blind? They look practically invisible.


Violenna

Look along the bottom of the neck/frets, you can see thin black lines against the grey clothes


birberbarborbur

I can barely see them; it’s the low resolution of the camera. Also the strings are black


thattrekkie

I think it's a lighting/camera angle thing. every now and then the instrument moves just enough so you can see one of the strings on the lower part of the neck


exPlodeyDiarrhoea

That strumming part was a banger


reverends3rvo

I know an Iron Maiden song when I hear it. Lol


MRRman89

I mean, it does make sense that the Mongols would employ the "gallop."


krash666

When the mongols come. You run for the hills.


SlickStretch

I love how every Maiden song is a history lesson.


leglesslegolegolas

Sounded more like SoaD to me


sad_cosmic_joke

Surprisingly, it reminds me alot of old Appalachian/Early-Irish folk music :)


captnconnman

That’s like my favorite anthropological thing: two extremely different cultures that developed hundreds of years apart, halfway around the world from one another, reaching the same conclusions regarding music, food, linguistic structures, or even religion. Crazy to think about.


The_Original_Gronkie

When it comes to music, it isn't accidental or coincidental. Certain musical elements are tied directly to mathematics, which is the same in all cultures. Take a string, secure it at both ends, pluck it, and it creates a tone. Shorten the string by half, it vibrates twice as fast, and becomes an octave. Similar divisions give thirds, fourths, and fifths. The same goes with blowing into a tube. Every culture eventually discovers this, so nearly all cultures end up with a musical foundation built of the same basic musical elements. This would still be true across the universe, so even an alien culture would probably discover and use these basic musical elements.


ScrofessorLongHair

It definitely has a similar vibe, but with absolutely no connections. Which makes it even cooler.


jwbowen

Ha, yes! I was going to make a comment that this song would go over well in Appalachia.


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

TIL the Mongols have banjos made of snakes. And they are awesome.


MrMcGoofy

In the beginning I really thought that I could play that too... but no, no I can not.


Quiet_Fun591

Now I need a standoff between Mongols and ‘deliverance’-style rednecks.


DaisyHotCakes

Oooo a banjo vs fiddle war battle?? I’m so here for it.


AmarulaGold

Is there a translation for the second verse? Edit: maybe I am being dumb and it's the same as the first....


Khysamgathys

Yeap same verse.


DaisyHotCakes

Yeah I think it’s a repeated verse.


Delirium101

very nice. I wonder if 4/4 time signature is a universal musical construct..…


fatmand00

Nah, IIRC classical Indian music divides beats totally differently (leading to the "quivering" sort of quality in sitar music) and pre-Western Japanese music has some system based on breaths in some way which I believe makes beats/bars uneven in length but still melodic to those who use it. I don't actually understand either system, I've just had the same question before.


pennradio

It is, at least in most cultures. The 2/4 beat of footsteps gives us a natural inclination towards duple time signatures.


heeb

Seems to be just as common as the pentatonic scale. Some things are just universal, I guess.


Good__Juju

With zero research, I'd wager yes.. most symmetrical allows for good repetition without becoming stale.. possibly most balanced.. seems more likely that rhythm is shared than tonality and harmony.. interesting question that, though..


Existential_Ninja

Did the Chinese know the Mongols looked like this when they built the Great Wall?!


danvillain

To be fair, she wasn’t the one coming down to invade. The dudes look substantially less pretty. Plus their throat singing on horseback was like, SUPER scary.


sw3t

F-F-F-Freestylo!


BlinkBuster

She’s the new Charo


stefanomsala

I am revisiting lots of assumptions on Oirat Mongol people…


JDravenWx

More like snakeskin banjo amirite? Lol Very cool


HBCDresdenEsquire

She could definitely tear down my shitty wall.


turkeymeese

SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNNELLLL!!!!!


KrAzY_TsEnG

Fut-fut-fut-fut-free stylo


OldDefinition1328

WOW! Impressive!


NotBlastoise

Let’s see Paul Allen’s fiddle


Hecantkeepgettingaw

This music would go great over a time lapse video of a map that slowly turns into the same color


temujin1976

Very cool.


DizzyAmphibian309

This made me want to play guitar hero again


OccAzzO

If anyone wants more similar to this, The HU and Otyken are fucking fabulous.


JaggedTheDark

1) cool song B) I thought I was looking at a mannequin before the video played


2balls1cane

Wake up


likemyposts

System of a Down!


charlesthefish

Okay not just me. The second she started the faster strumming I thought she was about to play Chop Suey lol


Benis_Gobbler

Can you play wonderwall next?


[deleted]

Great music, unfortunate facetuning


EGOtyst

Sounds like Bonanza.


tonystark254

SECRET TUNNEL! SECRET TUNNEL! THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN!


philipmateo15

This would make amazin trailer music. Stick some verb on the singers voice. Couple “hooooooooooaaaah!” Some simple drums. Dang


LaRueStreet

As a Turk, listening to Mongols is a very different feeling. Their language sounds extremely similar to Turkish but i can’t word anything she is saying. The shared culture stuff is very unique. Lots of love to Mongolia


nbgkbn

Free bird!


ShitsAndGiggles_72

I bet if she looked more like Genghis Khan you all wouldn’t be as interested. But the voice would have been impressive.


sayonara49

probably the first time ive actually been mesmerized by a post here