Ajinai

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Ajinai Band is a young band whose average age of its members is only 23. These young people are full of powerful rebellion, but they also inherited the traditional Mongolian spirit. They are traditional for that Mongolian culture and spirit have been already engraved on them. Mongolian prairies and culture are experiencing the most tragic moment since the Mongolian culture is being forgotten in the process of unavoidable modern industrialization. Ajinai Band insist on composing music in an ecosystem. They have extraordinary dedication of the inheritance of Mongolian history, culture and music. The members of Ajinai Band express a distinct frank, uninhibited and bold temperament which is typical for Mongolian people. Their passion is like galloping horses. At the meanwhile, they are also quiet, meaningful and thought-provoking to show the rhythm of life from the deep recesses of their Mongolian soul, in silence, in croon. All the most beautiful Mongolian songs are about horses, about all the wonderful fortunes occur when Mongolian people are running on the horses. The significant instrument of Mongolian music is Horse-head-fiddle, which is a bowed stringed instrument with a scroll carved like a horse’s head. It is believed by Mongolians that as long as Mongolian can exist, the sound of Horse-head-fiddle will never disappear. HuMei, a unique way of Mongolian music, its bass is deep, grand, mysterious and of majesty, and its treble has a great penetrating power. It expresses bold and generous heart, together with softness and sentiment of Mongolian people through changeable voice part shift. Long Song is a way of singing widespread on the Mongolian prairies. Its tune is long-drawn-out and soft. Only these tunes which are full of love and missing of their hometown can make people feel warm. Ajinai Band inherited Mongolian spirits from the nature to inspire fresh musical creation, to feel happy. They are like Mongolian horses in the ancient war. They will always sing of horses, love, life and growth in nature on their way of music. --- MySpace

Contents 1 History 1.1 Band members 1.2 Timeline 1.2.1 2010 1.3 Participated Festivals 2 Further information

History

Band members

Hugjiltu: A young artist from ZaLute Prairie. He is the core of Ajinai Band. He composes the music, plays taobuxuur, and sings in the way of Hu Mai. He is good at playing Horse-head fiddle and Sihu. Hugjiltu was born in a long line of music. His father, Laosir is a famous artist of Si hu . Hugjiltu was influenced deeply by his father and he began to learn Si hu story-telling and since Horse-head fiddle .he was a little boy. He also learnt HuMei from Aodusu rong, a famous Mongolian artist, in 2005. 2005 – 2009 April, Hugjiltu joined many live shows as the major composer and player of Hanggai Band: The Jokul Music Festival; Shanghai Zhu Jiajiao Music Festical; Ethno Music Festical in Sweden (2007); Ollinkan Music Festival in Mexico (2009); as the only Asian representive to play in the concert for World Earth Day in Montreal, Canada; Beyond the Wall in London and a special performance of Mu muur. There are interviews from BBC, CNN and other international medias, too. Ajinai Band was set up in 2009. At the same time, Hu ge ji le tu set up another band, Da Wanggan, together with Song Yuzhe, and he plays horse-head fiddle in this band.

SunBor: He is from Hu Lun Beier Prairie, plays Mongolian San Xian and taobuxuur SunBor was fond of painting and music when he was very young. He and his brother chaoLumeng influence each other, and they came to Beijing together to develop their music career. They set up Subversive M Band. In this band, SunBor was the guitar player and he composed the music. His father is a famous Mongolian wrestler, therefore, the emotion of SunBor’s music is bold and unrestrained but also very subtle

ChaoLumeng: Brother of SunBor. He has very profound grounding of music. He learnt accordion in 1992, and learnt horse-head fiddle in 2000. Then he learnt HuMei from an Inner Mongolian HuMei teacher, BaoLidao. He set up Subversive M Band with his brother in 2004. That was a new metallic band and he played bass. In Ajinai Band, chaolumeng plays horse-head fiddle, and sings in the way of HuMei. ChaoLumeng is quite gifted of understanding music and mastering instruments.

Aheicha: He is from Xi Lin Guole Alliance. He plays Saman drum and sings folk songs in Ajinai Band. He learnt Mongolian dancing in Huhehaote Municipality in 2000. Then he came to Beijing to learn electronic music in 2005. He join in Subversive M Band in 2007, and released an album, Mongolian Spirit. A Heicha was quite good at dancing and singing since he was a child. His voice is loud, sonorous and clear. He was a close friend of SunBor and Chao Lumeng brothers. And A Heicha is the youngest in the band.

Ao Deng: She is from Hu Lun Beier Alliance, and plays tambourine in Ajinai Band. She is the only girl in the band. Ao Deng has good music understanding and accomplishment. She can combine world music element with Mongolian music through playing tambourine perfectly.

XiRibu: He is from Xi Lin Guole Alliance, the Long tune singer in Ajinai Band. Xi Ribu is the oldest in the band. His style of singing is Xi Lin Guole Long tune, and he is a successor of this style. He learnt Mongolian Long tune when he was 14. It was more than 30 years since he began to sing in Long tune. His singing has a very typical prairie flavor.

Timeline

2010

On May 3rd, 2010, they performed at the Midi Music Festival 2010.

Participated Festivals

Midi Music Festival 2010, May 1st-4th 2010

Further information

• MySpace Page (English)
• MySpace
• Douban page

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