a common space & database for harmonic overtones
About me: KHUKH MONGOL was founded 1997 by Dashtseren Erdenbold. KHUKH MONGOL means blue Mongolia referring to the special meaning of the colour blue for the Mongolian people. They have a strong appreciation for the rich deep-blue colour of their homelands sky, something the country is well-known for. On nearly 300 days in the year the sky of Mongolia is clear and blue. Also, it is alleged, that all new-born Mongolian children have a blue mark on their backs.
The members of KHUKH MONGOL came together 1997 in Ulaan Baator and have travelled since then under the direction of Dashtseren Erdenebold as musical Ambassadors of Mongolia through the world.
KHUKH MONGOL contains of studied singers and musicians of typical Mongolian instruments such as horse head violin, dulcimer, flute and bass. In the group is also the wife of the leader, the Khoeoemii,a female singer Purevsuren Usukhjargal, which masters this singing technique as one of three women in Mongolia !
As a further musical characteristic, their son, the seven-year-old Erdenebold Tuguldur is to be heard with Overtone-Voice & Throat-Singing on the track: "Tavan Hasag".
Since 1998 the group had many great appearances with their comprehensive repertoire from traditional instrumental music, songs (Khoomi, Magtaal praise) and dances (religious mask dance Tsam, traditional mask dance, traditional dance Bijelgee) in whole Western Europe, USA and Japan. The musicians and dancers of Khukh Mongol participated successfully in numerous jazz- and folk music festivals in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. Khukh Mongol performs in traditional Mongolian costumes that are made up of mainly of heavy brocade material in wonderful designs and brilliant colours. All musicians from Khukh Mongol are professionals who studied Mongolian folk music.
About me: Kasper Soeborg is an experienced musician, Guitar-player and Composer with 6 CD’s and 3 books containing original guitar-music as documentation on the Olafssongs label.
Over the years Kasper Soeborg's repertoire has spanned from psychedelic rock to computer music , so one may say he has emerged from the "melting-pot" of jazz, fusion, flamenco, folk and classical with a style and spirit that is very much his own ”Worldmusic”, including studies and experiments/workshops in harmonics and overtone singing. In the autumn 99 Spanish guitar and Flamenco studies in Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, supported by "Statens Kunstfond" (the State Art-fondation of Denmark) developed his art. This has, since then, led to many travels to Andalusia, Spain. From 1989 Kasper Soeborg has been giving koncerts in Denmark, Sweeden, The Czech republic, Poland, France and the Kola-Peninsula over Moscow to Chuvashia in Russia. Also Canada ( as a part of "The SuperDanish" festival and New York in 2004 as well as several tours in Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. La Semaine de la Musique Instrumentale 2007 in Tunesia. 5. Bimbache OpenArt Festival en El Hierro (Canarias) 2009. International promotion at MIDEM (Cannes, France)1995-99,and 2003-5. International promotion at WOMEX 2003 and 2005 (Newcastle) and 2006 , 2007, 2008 (Sevilla),2009 (Copenhagen
About me: Singing with artists on records
was a source of joy since I was a child.
Then: the Beatles!
I could not get enough of their music
and their contemporaries´.
When I got a guitar and founded my first band,
I was in heaven.
We copied the music of our heroes
and composed music of our own.
After having finished high school,
I studied Jazz.
I learnt how to play the piano
and some other instruments.
For a couple of years,
I toured and recorded with various formations.
At age forty,
I studied musicology, psychology and American Literature
at the Universität des Saarlandes.
Being a bad sight-reader,
I researched on the subject
and wrote a dissertation on it.
In 2004, I met
Chris Amrhein and Christian Bollmann,
and the world of overtones revealed its wonders.
It felt like being home - and it still does.
Music, sound and rhythm let us feel
what we really are.
Especially overtone music
is very strong in this respect,
because it leads into silence.
Since then, I have been exploring
the world of overtones,
and I love to give concerts and courses.
I also have been meeting
lots of people
who I feel in resonance with.
Thank you, universe!
Let´s continue the celebration of life!
About me: Jeevan Mukti - Liberation in Life
Jeevan Mukti is Alexandre Viain from Germany/France. He is a passionate multi talented artist who loves to express himself in every way possible: singing, painting, drawing, dancing, playing music.
In 2002 he began to study Raj Yoga and to meditate regularly. He began to realize his true nature as embodied eternal spiritual light, living in a body without attachment to it. ( It..s so easy to forget and to fall back into body conciousness, sometimes it..s so hard to remember ;-)
His intention is to heal and transformate himself for the world can heal itself and transformate into a peaceful place full of love and respect for each other. He tries to spread the loving, peaceful and powerful light wherever he is able to.
His DJ-Sound ranges from spiritual chants of almost every culture over meditative ambient scapes up to downbeats and danceable psy dub. He is very intuitive in DJing and he loves to communicate with his audience. His DJ Set is very varied, emotional deep and uplifting.
Actually he is working on a new live act including live drums and percussions, guitar and (overtone) singing. It will be pure spiritual joy for your eyes, ears and your heart.
* May you be as powerful as the soft water, which washes rigidity and harshness henceforth *
Yaad, Pyar and Namasté to all of you lovely beeings out there :-)
Thank You, I love You :-)
Karmatit stage really means that a soul is beyond the pull of body consciousness and bondage of Karma while being embodied-( like Mukti means liberation of soul from the body and Jeevan-mukti means liberation from vices and bondage while remaining in the body.) In Jeevan-mukti or Karmatit stage the soul remains in the body without being conscious of it.
The power of truth is such that it never needs to be proved.
About me: The Portland musician and ritual artist known as Soriah (a.k.a. Enrique Ugalde) first came into being more than 10 years ago. His unique
vision has evolved to draw equally from performance and musical traditions both modern and ancient--- raga, shamanism, the revisionist arts of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation.
One element which pervasively informs his work, is traditional Tuvan throat singing. Soriah has extensively trained in, and received recognition for his achievements with, this style of overtone singing. Most recently, he was honored as the Third Place winner in the International Symposium of Khoomei Competition, and "Best Foreigner" in the 2008 Ustuu-Khooree World Music Festival in Tuva, where the form originated.
As much as the complex musical underpinnings of Soriah's music reach back to Central Asia, he traces his roots back to his father’s homeland of Mexico. His explorations of the cities and wilderness of Mexico and considerable research into the Aztec mysteries, as well as the
present-day animism of Tuvan Shamanism, have deeply influenced his
pan-cultural ethos.
Through costume, movement and meditation Soriah evokes an otherworld of profound mystical import. Though the settings for his performances have ranged from arenas, concert halls and churches, to swamps, caves, tree tops and even an abandoned nuclear reactor, his project carries its own sense of place and time, which transcend the concrete world.
The recorded works of Soriah are chiefly available from Beta-Lactam
Ring Records; along with compilation appearances on URCK's
"Post-Asiatic" series, Sonick Sorcery's "Visions From The Garden", and
Mobilization's "How To Destroy the Universe Part 5".
Credits also include live and recorded guest appearances with Blixa Bargeld, Perry Ferrel, The Legendary Pink Dots, Jarboe, Master Tuvan Throat Singers Chirgilchin, Psychic TV, The Church, Chrome, GWAR, The Polyphonic Spree, and The Dresden Dolls, as well many other local and international acts.
The newest official recording, " A T L A N "--- in collaboration with Ashkelon Sain (Trance to the Sun, Submarine Fleet)--- is scheduled for release in Spring of 2009.
About me: I am active as composer, singer, choral conductor, and teacher. The majority of my compositions involve the use of overtone singing, including works for solo voice, for voice with instruments, and choral works. I have presented concerts, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops throughout the US and Europe. I am a published author and composer, with articles in the Journal of Singing and Choral Journal, and choral compositions with Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag. I earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music composition from The University of Michigan. Check out my website <a href="http://www.stuarthinds.com" target="_blank"><b>www.stuarthinds.com</b></a> for more informations, booking and workshop and c oncert schedule in English. <br/>Below are informations in German:
<hr/>Stuart Hinds ist als Komponist, Sänger, Dozent und Chorleiter aktiv. Die meisten seiner Kompositionen sind vor allem für virtuose Obertonsängerinnen und –sänger geschrieben. Darunter sind Werke für Solo-Stimme, instrumentale Stücke und Kompositionen für Sprach-und Chormusik. <br/> <br/>Stuart Hinds gibt Konzerte, Unterricht und Workshops in den USA und Kanada, Deutschland, Belgien, Österreich und in Tschechien. Seine musikalischen Werke sind in Artikeln der „Zeitschrift für Gesang“ und dem „Chormusik Journal“ erschienen. Im Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag sind neuerdings Chorwerke von Stuart Hinds veröffentlicht worden. Stuart Hinds promovierte an der Universität in Michigan zum „Doktor of Musical Arts in Komposition“.<br/> Stuart Hinds ist einzigartig unter den Obertonsängern. Er hat diesen Gesang mit Virtuosität zu einer neuen Kunstfertigkeit geführt. Er erlangt ein bisher selten erreichtes Level musikalischen Ausdrucks, wenn er zeitgleich über den traditionellen Bordunklang stimmlich zwei unterschiedliche musikalischen Linien entwickelt. Seine Kompositionen sprengen dabei die Grenzen des üblichen Obertongesangs und kreieren ein völlig neues Genre der Musik, die jeden Musikstil umfassen. <br/> <br/> Stuart Hinds Werk spiegelt zum einen seine klassische Ausbildung wieder, mit musikalischen Einflüssen unterschiedlichster Kulturen – sein einzigartiger Stil begeistert ein weites Spektrum von Zuhörern. So schrieb ein schwedischer Musikkritiker; dass „Hinds ein wahrer Meister der Obertongesangstechnik ist“ und kommentierte: „Ich habe bisher noch nie so etwas gehört. Seine Musik zeigt eine wahre und unverfälschte Kunstfertigkeit. Ich schätze mich glücklich, dass ich auf seine Musik gestoßen bin, welche mir nicht nur musikalisch Freude bereit, sondern mich zudem spirituell erhebt.“ <br/><br/>
About me: I can at least answer the question how I got interested in music. I think it runs in the family. Apparently my granddad (father's father) was an amateur musician in his bachelor's days. He then lived in the village of Tudderen in Germany, near Sittard in the south of The Netherlands, and was playing the flute in a sort of local flute and drum marching band. And during carnival he would play the accordion and sing songs. I got this information from my 84-year old aunt the other day, who told me that after he married, my grandfather was never seen performing music again... My grandma (mother's mother) lived in West-Frisia and was a singer. I think she was one of the informants of Dr. B. Veurman and Dr. D. Bax in their classic folk song collection "Songs and Dances of West-Frisia" ("Liederen en Dansen uit West-Friesland" published in 1944). My mother was a singer too, all her life she was an alto in a fairly reputed choir in the town of Hoorn, where I was born. She taught me all the songs that she had learned from her mother. And I was always interested in music, I went to music school, had piano lessons, but at an early age decided I did not want to be a performing musician. I felt much better at ease off stage than on stage. After secondary school I went to university (in Amsterdam), studying drama and ethnomusicology, and got involved in the organisation of the local folkclub and folkfestival in Leiden (where I live since 1969). And from there it gradually expanded. There's a story about the early years of PAN Records and how I got to be its owner in the liner notes to the Crooks CD (PAN 151), the CD is sold out now, but will eventually be available again via digital distribution.
I have a special interest in overtone singing and the music of Tuva, Khakassia, Mongolia, Altai, and Bashkortostan. As far as I can tell, PAN Records (the record company that I own) was the first company in the West (there were already a few LPs on Melodiya) to release a CD with overtone songs from Tuva (maybe with the exception of Smithsonian Folkways, I am not sure when that one was released). My company was also the first to organise tours with overtone singers from Tuva (1991), and I also brought them to the USA and Canada (1992 and 1993) where later they became world famous as Huun Huur Tu, but I wasn't involved then anymore, as the band had split up and I decided to stay loyal to Gennadi Tumat (see PAN 2090), whom I thought to be the more talented. He was also the most whimsical, and for years we talked about making a solo-CD, but he could never find the discipline to do studio work for long periods. You can read all about that in the liner notes to PAN 2090.
I am actively promoting the traditional music from Holland, and there are quite a lot of such CDs in the PAN catalogue (PAN 2004, 2025, 188, 157, 159, 179, 191, 192, 204, 205, 208, 210, 211, 214, 216, 218, 220).
About me: Andrea Ferroni, Turin - 1977.
Charmed by the didjeridoo, he begins his studies as a self-taught musician, therefore he follows courses and workshops hold by worldwide famous artists. However he mostly studies very personal techniques in depth.
Studies overtone singing with Tran Quang Hai, Roberto Laneri and Bernard Dubreuil; digital recoring and ethnic music with Luca Morino.
He studies Saxophone with M° Nando Massimello.
So far, he's worked with: “Architorti”, Tony Esposito, Daniela Paci, Roberto Laneri, Marco Trochelmann, Giuseppe Verticchio, Ilario Vannucchi, Ilaria Drago, Roberto Canone, The Wimshurst's Machine band, Paolo Sanna, Fabio Santagostino, Alessandro Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giorda, Ipercussonici and many others. In less than four years, he participates to the most prestigious European festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Austria and Portugal achieving great feedback from critics and reviews in specialized magazines. He establishes the 'Scuola del Didjeridoo' ('Didjeridoo School'), where he starts teaching in 2003. He focuses on his teaching methods and research on phonetics, logopedia and physics. He holds workshops and courses all over Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Great Britain. In 2006, he teaches in the ethnic school 'Iat Gong' in Genoa, an institute which has gathered the major experts and performers of various traditional art disciplines from all over the world. He founds the cultural association 'Yidaki', involved in promoting the native Australian music and culture, which has reached a number of almost 100 members in Italy and abroad in less than one year. With it, he also establishes 'Yidaki News', the only magazine in Italy dedicated to the didjeridoo and the aboriginal culture. He publishes four CDs named: "Windproject" (2003), "Noises & Voices" (2004), "Tribal Revolution" (2005), “Breaking Through” (2006), “Ritratto” (2007), "Windproject 2008". He personally builds his instruments, which are very appreciated in Italy and by many artists who play them live.
About me: The band Egschiglen ("Beautiful melody") was founded in 1991 by master students of the conservatory of Ulaanbaatar. Still today 4 founding members are the heart of the group. From the very beginning, the musicians are focusing on contemporary music of Mongolia and searching systematically for the sound dimensions of this repertory with their traditional instruments and the central asian vocal technics (overtone and throat singing)
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The music of a country is formed by its landscape and the way of life of its people. Mongolia, in the heart of Asia, is a vast country, roughly five times the size of Germany. Endless graslands in the south envelope into the barren beauty of the Gobi desert. From the snow-covered Altai and Changaj mountains clear rivers run through forests and flatlands. A large part of the more than 2 million Mongolians still live as nomads to this very day, in harmony and rhythm with nature, and together with their "five jewels": horses, camels, cattle, sheep and goats. The music of the Mongolians breathes the freedom and power of the simple way of life close to the nature.
Magnificant lucidity - is the fruit of years of research and travel between the conservatory of Ulaan Baatar, capital of Mongolia, and Röthenbach a. d. Pegnitz, small village in Germany. In this most southern German area of Franconia, the Egschiglen musicians regularly erected their traditional yurts to be nearer to European concert halls. What a distance they have covered since 1991 when the group, firmly rooted in tradition, was founded by a handfull students with commited contemporary attitudes!
Their first performances were modern Mongolian compositions written by fellow compatriots of the Soviet school. Their sucesses in the West were few due to audiences mostly accustomed to traditional folk music.
Since those beginnings, Egschiglen has transformed the art of folk music, far from native the grasslands and the traditional shamanistic and lamaistic forms such as epics and odes, survived miraculously 60 years of socialism.
It’s time for a walk through the labyrinth of vocal acrobatics: the diaphonic - the epic singing, or the melodic. Aditionally there are the try outs with experimental sounds of the -horse head violin, dulcimer, bass, and the two strings luthe.
Over the time the group has developped a unic vocal and instrumental language of their own. Their compositions and orchestrations reflect a fluent transformation of their native songs into magnificant contemporary music. Egschiglen’s concerts have involved into sparkling symphonies, expressions of pure freedom, always remaining true to its spiritual and nomadic roots.
Today the musical and poetic universe of these mongolian nomads continues to expand and grow. Their music reflects the excitement and joy with which these eternal nomads travel.
About me: Just released “7 Spirituelle Lieder”, (7 spiritual songs) in overtone harmonics to sing along with the audience in the veine of the ancient Indian Bhajan songs ...
Bio: Peter Bayreuther, born 12.2.1955 in Minden/Westfalia in the West/North of Germany. Father Ernst teacher for the arts and pianist, Mother Gisela, studied history of the arts, viola player.
His second name stems from his ancestors, who emigrated 300 years ago from the town Bayreuth in the South of Germany, known for Bayreuther Festspiele, the festival of Richard Wagner’s music.
When Little Peter learned of German history, he decided to take the worldwide known German composers Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as role models and set a personal contribution and symbol of peace for the world.
At the age of 7 he started to learn the violin and performed as a youngster at the Mindener Stadtheater a violin concerto of Johann Sebastian Bach.
At the age of 18 he started to study music, German and history at the University of Münster and spent 18 month in England in community projects instead of military service. He finished his studies summa cum laude in 1978.
He directed a union’s choir with rock band in Münster and taught Music at the University of Oldenburg, the College for Social work in Bielefeld and the Kulturzentrum Wilde Rose, Melle where in 1984 he got to know his life partner Karin , a singer, actor, dancer and poet.
Peter and Karin developed a very fruitful artistic relationship: they wrote together about 200 songs, published 8 CDs and founded projects together like Wawaphonie, Herz zu Herz, Erotik in Lila, Erotik im Herztakt, Heart:Heart, KinderVomUniversum (children of the universe), Chakra, Szenen einer wilden Ehe (scenes of a wild marriage), 12 Kinderlieder aus der Steptanzpyramide (12 children songs from the tap dance pyramid). They appeared on TV and radio, toured all over Germany and down to Chicago, Bangkok, Hollywood and Liverpool, where Peter initiated at the Cavern Club in 2001 the European innovative music festival Lovegeist. BBC Liverpool aired their song “Castle of my Soul”.
Peter founded 1984 the E.I.S. Erstes Improvisierendes Steichorchester (First Improvising String Orchestra), 20 violins, celli and double basses with new improvisational music concepts and compositions from him like “Liebesleid” and “Lustig”. These two pieces were hits from the first time the orchestra performed them and are still played today by the E.I.S.
This unusual orchestra was enthusiastically received and more than 200 hundred concerts followed in Germany and Switzerland. Highlight of TV presence: Bio’s Bahnhof on best broadcasting slot 20.15h nationwide with the famous host Alred Biolek.
1988 founding of the music performance duo Brain&Body, Peter doing the body music: violin, singing and tap-dance, music professor Wolfgang Martin Stroh electronic beats.
1989 Peter starts to study overtone singing with Michael Vetter – nowadays he has added the Mongolian style of Hossoo to his repertoire too. He studied the principals of overtone harmonics and let them influence his compositional work.
In the nineties lots of releases of CDs:
Multidimensional Reality, Chakra Journey, Abfahrt Freihalten, Perlen vor die Säue, Castle of my Soul, Die andere Zeit: a unique style of artistic rock music with world- and Jazz elements is evolving…
In spring 2003 Peter released his first solo album ACCEPTANCE, in May 03 the first Peter Bayreuther fan club was founded by enthusiastic Youngsters
In July 03 Peter gave a long interview at Radio Aktiv/Hameln. In Aug 03 he played the Schüttorf Open Air with great success and made international Contacts at Popkomm/Cologne. In 2004 he is founding his own world music orchestra: a stunning live program is available: his own songs with his own voice in an intriguing artful and entertaining live show, with a bunch of great musicians! Peter Bayreuther & his World Music Orchestra
In 2005 he played in his home town Melle a concert every week in a socially deprived area around the station and gained a big fan community from all ages, professions and ethnical backgrounds! Peter is able to bring his concept of the Helden der Liebe (Hero of Love) across, to encourage his audience to accept, appreciate and love themselves and so develop the courage and ability to love others…
This weekly concert series was performed for nearly two years!
On April 12, 2006 Peter and Karin got married, after 22 years of being lovers and artist colleagues to confirm their lifelong strong love for each other; there was a great wedding party with lots of live-music!
In spring 2007 the new album “violin 9 sisters” was released. Subject are nine aspects of our personality in a modern interpretation of the 9 muses myth by Kris/Toronto.
For May, 26th Alte Stadthalle, he composed a night long serenade for E.I.S.Stringorchestra, children tap dancer and Tekkno-Dj with the title “Peter Pan”: the wild, magic inner child…
The rock band TRANS4MATION was founded by Josef A.Balcar (6stringBass), with Peter on Violin, Karin singing, and Daniel Rudka, drums. In Aug 2007 their first live-Album appeared, and made great Impression on the Krautrock-community!
In December 2007: Om Tara – a new band with Indian music: sitar, tabla and Peter on violin: it felt like coming home, the inner sweetness of the ancient Vedic tradition – the violin in playful interaction with sitar. 3 Live-Albums available: “Ekstase des Herzens”, “Mut des Schmetterlings” and “Liebe ist der Weg” .
In January 2008 his Mother Gisela is moving in at his place and inspired by his dear mother Peter records his new album in his own studio “7 Spirituelle Lieder”, German Bhajan-songs to sing along – the yoga and new age community is welcoming Peter Bayreuther to expand their beneficial influence for the people in Germany and all over the world…
April 2008: Peter again teaching at the University of Oldenburg: Jazz- and Rock improvisation for violin, big applause for Brain&Body live in concert.
Summer 2008: the new album of Trans4mation to be expected…
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