Khusugtun: Of Horses & Mongolia’s Robin Hood
The Mongolian culture has their lives so intertwined with horses that their key traditional instrument, the bowed, two-string morin khuur (or horsehead fiddle), is elaborately decorated with a carved horse’s head at the top of the neck. Genre: World music Meet the band called Khusugtun, an ethnic contemporary Mongolian group, dedicated to keeping alive the ancient Central Asian tradition of throat singing, where each vocalist is able to produce two or even three notes at once. Khusugtun is an internationally recognized group that performs traditional music from Mongolia. They are…
