Mongolian musical culture is tied up with their pastoral way of life. For the album, the idea was to find, study and incorporate as much of Mongolia's musical culture as they could into a rock style, says the band's 52-year-old producer and songwriter, B. They plan to call it Gereg, the name for a diplomatic passport used during the time of Genghis Khan. The Hu call their style "hunnu rock" - from the Mongolian root word for human being: "hu." The band spent seven years putting together its first album, which it expects to release this spring. Those who study Mongolian music believe one reason The Hu has proved so popular with outsiders is this combining of modern and historical and Eastern and Western elements. It also involves singing in a guttural way known as throat singing while throwing heads back and forth reminiscent of the headbanging of '80s heavy metal bands like Metallica. Mongolian rock combines traditional Mongolian instruments, like a horsehead fiddle ( morin khuur), Jew's harp ( tumur khuur) and Mongolian guitar ( tovshuur) with the pounding bass and drums of rock. Goats and Soda To Fight Pollution, He's Reinventing The Mongolian Tent
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