Hanggai-Introducing Hanggai

Sometimes, an album takes you so by surprise that it takes days to get your mind around just how much you like it. Hanggai’s debut was like that for me– this record floored me the first time I played it. Simply described, this album takes traditional Mongolian folk music and instrumentation and projects them into a loosely rock-based structure. This is not really a folk album, though it sometimes has the feel of one. Producers Robin Haller and Matteo Scumaci, Westerners both, allow the band to straddle the folk and pop worlds, creating something new and exhilarating in the process.