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Mamer

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  • Location Urumqi, 新疆维吾尔族自治区, CN

    Profile Views: 67891

    Last Login: 6/27/2011

    Member Since 2/27/2009

    Website www.realworldrecords.com

    Record Label Real World Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. ..MyGen.. ..Profile Generator.. .. Over the last two decades, Mamer has established himself as one of China’s most innovative and influential artists. Drawing inspiration from the songs and poetry of the grasslands where he grew up, Mamer has influenced a generation of bands and musicians around China..... Eagle features a repertoire of grassland songs, normally sung solo and accompanied by the simple two-stringed dombra. Mamer has adapted these songs and updated them for the 21st century, at the same time preserving their unaffected lyricism and often instructional lyrics..... Mamer was born in Qitai County in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. Some 2000 miles from Beijing, he grew up in the furthest flung corner of Chinese central Asia, near China’s border with Russia and Kazakhstan. One of 10 children, Mamer learnt the songs and instruments of the grasslands from his father and grandfather..... His 5-piece band ‘IZ’ was credited with single-handedly kick-starting China’s alt-country scene, and Eagle is his debut solo album..... With a warmer and more intimate sound than his recordings with IZ, Eagle finds Mamer in an introspective mood, and feature a collection of songs that deal with universal grassland themes; the nature of man, the delicate balance of man and nature, and the temptations of modernity..... Recorded in Beijing and Urumqi, Eagle was produced by Robin Haller and Matteo Scumaci, and features a grassland dueling-banjos style duet with multiple-Grammy award winner Bela Fleck (Track 4) as well as a bonus mix by the late, great French producer (and Mamer-admirer) Hector Zazou.....

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  • Influences

    ..WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT MAMER'S EAGLE.. .... “…uprooting and reworking [Kazakh] culture to seamless and sublime effect. Eagle is terrific, and questions every assumption about ‘country’ and geography in popular music.” ..UNCUT.. .... "One of the most surprising and refreshing albums you'll hear this year..." ..NPR, All Songs Considered.. .... “like an old friend you miss every moment they are away…entrancing, not only because it sounds so delightfully otherworldly…a wonderful debut. An absolute triumph.” ..THE LINE OF BEST FIT.. .... "This is Chinagrass, an Alt Country/Tuvan-Kazakh hybrid that Mamer has pioneered, which is at once stunningly familiar and enticingly strange -- think Leonard Cohen transplanted to China's outback. " ..Sarah Bardeen, RHAPSODY.. .... “a lovely, deceptively simple album, which reveals ever more of its layered charms with each listen.” ..BBC Music.. .... "emotionally stirring and simultaneously earthy and exotic..." ..San Diego Union Tribune.. .... "...Mamer's debut album Eagle should lift this singer/songwriter into global fame" ..Christian Science Monitor.. .... "Eagle is a monumentally satisfying take on the modern grassland sound. Mamer and company haven't just repackaged a folk tradition but recaptured, renewed and reinvented it for a whole new audience." ..World Music Central.. .... "one of my new favorite musicians...I can’t recommend this album enough...original, and overall, just one of the most enjoyable albums I’ve listened to recently" ..Indiemuse.com.. .... "Mamer's work invades all manner of spaces and moods. At times it's subtle and intricated, like Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno ambiently tinkering in some rural market. At other times, it's a full on jam..." ..National Post (Canada).. .... "a stunning album..." ..Tom Robinson, BBC6.. .... "a wonderful record...mesmerizing" ..Peter Gabriel.. .... “listening to this makes you feel like you’re walking through the wilderness…The rich composition may be complex, but the songs are utterly accessible” ..TIME OUT.. .... “music for a road movie evoking endless space and roaming horses” ..Evening Standard.. .... “A lovely, original and haunting creation.” ..Observer.. .... “Mamer's Eagle evokes a pleasing sense of warmth and intimacy.” ..Telegraph.. .... “songs such as Iligai or Blackbird sounding like the Chinese equivalent of grand Celtic ballads…an intriguing album” ..Guardian.. .... “Irresistible” ..Independent..

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