Friday 25 March 2022, 8pm
On her second album Ursgal Mongolian singer Enji creates a unique blend of Jazz and Folk with the thousand-year-old traditions of Mongolian music. Currently based in Munich, her lyrics tell personal stories about unbearable distances, the oddness of being on earth and the simple truths in life. She’s accompanied by Paul Brändle on guitar and Munguntovch Tsolmonbayar on double bass.
Born in Ulaanbaatar, Enji grew up in a yurt to a working-class family. Having always been drawn to music, dance and literature, she initially wanted to become a music teacher with little ambitions to compose or be on stage. A program by the local Goethe Institute sparked her passion for Jazz and eventually led her to become a performing artist. Inspired by the music of Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson, Enji started writing songs of her own, cherishing this newfound means of expression. Ursgal is the first record featuring her original compositions.
vocalist / composer / sound artist
Interested in the voice as the most organic synthesizer. Using extended vocal techniques, folk and eastern culture influenced vocal practices, space resonances as well as profound forms of sound processing and synthesis to create minimalistic imaginative landscapes.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Receiver of a scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture in the subject of musicology. A student of hindustani classical music under the supervision of the Gwalior style vocal master Shashwati Mandal. A co-creator of multidisciplinary band WIDT and a musical duo Mentos Gulgendo.
http://www.antoninanowacka.com/
