Back in 2013, Shanghai-based bass-drums death-pop duo Death to Giants teamed up with Mongolian folk duo Guren for a series of live collaborative shows around Shanghai.
The quartet made its debut at the Mongol Arts and Culture Festival on October 20th, 2012 with a fully improvised set followed by another at Rock Naadam on June 26th, 2013.
To cap it off, the four musicians booked a recording space for a one-day improvisational session — the songs on this album are what came out of it.
Seven years later, Guren and Death to Giants release “23.6.2017,” a hypnotic celebration of what can happen when you bring a khoomei throat singer, a morin khuur player, a bassist, and a drummer together and allow them to simply wander where the music takes them.
The group will be donating all sales received from July 3 through July 5 to the NAACP’s Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Very cool to see some fellow Asian extreme musicheads who live out here in the west (United Kingdom to be precise) also continuing to actually play music instead of...
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