hodoo

"it takes 3 seconds to fall in love... but 3 decades to get along..."

there's a sony handicam commercial running in heavy circulation on cnn that uses footage of mongolia and a beautiful song by urna chahar-tugchi. ever since i heard the song it was stuck in my head but i couldn't find any info online. thanks to some better googling techniques today i finally found the song on cheryl's site. take a listen for yourself here (*see note at bottom)- the song is titled 'hodoo' from the album tal nutag (grasslands).

urna is from inner mongolia (part of china)- she came here to shanghai to further her education at age 20. she has since moved to germany with her husband where they produce music together. take a moment to listen to more of her songs here and here.
"my homeland is the ordos district, a high plateau in westen inner mongolia belonging to china. it was there that i was born in the last winter month of 1968 into a humble family of livestock farmers. as a child i looked after lambs on the sand dunes with the neighbouring children. sometimes we lost track of our flock whilst playing. so to gather them again we tossed lumps of sand into the air. in this way we sometimes caused whole sandbanks to collapse. later i looked after calves in the plains fo shirdegiin tsaidam where the thick grass grows tall. and so the first ten years of my childhood quickly passed." (more)

*sorry, i've had to take the song down. several people in taiwan remote-linked the song to mp3 search engines resulting in my bandwidth was being eaten up on the first day at a rate of 4000 megabytes and growing quickly. if you want a copy of the song, write me an email and i'll send it to you.