An Anthology of Mongolian Khöömi
Music of the world
The traditional Mongolian art of khöömii was added to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2010.Through 43 tracks, including 28 previously unreleased, this double disc gathers the essentials of mongolian khöömii, from early sound archives to the present day, showing the history and evolution of this heritage over sixty years (1954-2016) and three generations. (his is about promoting and giving due recognition to khöömii in contemporary life, in providing fair representation of all its movements — rural and urban streams, amateur and professional — in the face of all forms of hierarchy. (editor: Johanni Curtet)
