The song "Nomadic Time" sung by Jaime Brown is worth a listen.
The song "Nomadic Time" expresses the heartbreaking wandering life of the nomadic herdsmen in all directions, very nostalgic for the companions who grew up together in the wind and rain, and now to have been scattered in various places in the end of the world, and at the same time expresses the magnificent vastness of the grassland.
Mongolian long tune folk songs, "long tune" in Mongolian is pronounced as "Urtindo", meaning long song, is the traditional music of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, known as the "living fossil of grassland music. "
Mongolian folk songs have a distinctive form of singing that is characterized by nomadic and regional cultures, with a long, soothing melody and an open mood.
Value of Mongolian Long Tune
Mongolian Long Tune Folk Songs are closely related to the grassland and the nomadic lifestyle of the Mongolian nation, carrying the history of the Mongolian nation, and are the iconic demonstration of the Mongolian nation's production, life, and spiritual character, and a culture distributed across borders.
Mongolian long tune folk songs tell the Mongolian people's perception of history, culture, humanistic customs, morality, philosophy and art with distinctive features of nomadic culture and unique singing forms, and are called "living fossil of grassland music".
On August 17-18, 2019, the 2019 National Eight Provinces and Regions Children's Mongolian Long Tune Naadam Singing Activity was held at the Weilat Folk Culture Inheritance and Education Center in Alashan Left Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Participants from eight provinces and regions, including Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, and Xinjiang, competed for the laurels of the Long Tune Naadam. The stage of the competition was set on the vast and boundless prairie, and the real life of herders was interpreted live.