“Our music is a blend of east and west, old and new. We’re building on a history and a sound that has been around for thousands of years.”
Galbadrakh Tsendbaatar, AKA Gala
Iron Maiden organised an event called Eddfest last weekend and a band called 'The Hu' were playing. This is not a misspelling of Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend's band....
The band say they didn’t choose their name as a play on the Who’s, but because “hu” is the root word for human being in Mongolian. “We took the name because of the inclusive nature,” Temka said. “It’s not about being Mongolian. It’s about being human.”
The Hu were profiled in a piece in The Guardian some years ago... with a classic punning title.
There's plenty of classic geography scenery in this video: Black Thunder Part 1
The band’s video for Yuve Yuve Yu likewise stresses the connection between modernity and tradition. It opens with various band members in contemporary settings – an upscale coffee shop in Ulaanbaatar, or at home playing a video game – before Gala opens the door of his urban apartment to enter a vast expanse of mountains and lakes in Mongolia’s remote western region. The images that occupy the rest of the video are so stunning, they could double as a travelogue for the Mongolian tourist board. The band’s second video, for Wolf Totem, unites traditional Mongolian horse riders with leather-clad men on Harleys, suggesting an eastern take on Easy Rider. That connection underscores a bad-ass image that has made the band a natural for metal heads.
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