Night Sounds - Listening with the Heart: Ensemble Sedaa

Using traditional instruments, ancient vocal techniques, and modern arrangements, the musicians of Ensemble Sedaa create a cosmos of sound that is both archaic and contemporary.


The group combines two Mongolian musicians with the Iranian multi-instrumentalist Omid Bahadori. Their music is based on natural sounds created with traditional instruments and ancient vocal techniques from nomadic cultures. This includes overtone and subtone singing, in which a singer produces several notes simultaneously.


Vibrant undertone singing, the melancholic sounds of the horsehead fiddle (morin khuur), and the pulsating rhythms of the drum and dulcimer merge into a mystical tapestry of sound.