Long song is traditionally performed amid the flat expanses of the Gobi Desert. Singers take hugely long breaths in order to sustain loud, extended and highly ornamented melodic phrases. Ganbaatar Khongorzul performs urtiin duu [OOR tin DOO] or long song (a Mongolian vocal genre) with the Silk Road Ensemble.
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