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Altan Urag is a folk rock and ethnic band that fuses traditional Mongolian sound with a contemporary influence. The name Altan Urag can be loosely translated to Khans Kin or Golden Blood Line, referring to Chinggis Khan and his ancestors. The bands vision is to promote Mongolian culture to the world and introduce traditional music to the young people of the Mongolia. The band has seven members whose skills lie in playing the morin khuur (horse head fiddle), ih khuur (grand horse head fiddle), percussion, bishguur (traditional horn) and yaichin. The vocalists are throat singers and long song singers and all were trained in traditional and classical Mongolian music. The band has released two albums, Foals Been Born an ethnic contemporary album (2004), and Made in Altan Urag, a folk-rock album (Sonor Records 2006). Four new albums will be released in early 2009, marking a culmination in a prolific phase in Altan Urags work. Blood (folk rock), Hypnotism (contemporary), Once Upon a Time in Mongolia (ethnic) and Nation (traditional folk) use the artists incredible skills to explore different genres of Altan Urags music and demonstrate their powerful and soulful sound.Altan Urag has produced the soundtrack for two international movies. The first soundtrack Mother Mongolia was produced for the movie Khadak (2006) directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth and the second was Blue Marked Nation for the movie Mongol (2008) directed by Sergei Bodrov. Khadak and Mother Mongolia ...