When Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig (a.k.a. Epi) and Park Stickney first shared a stage, something clicked. Two wildly different instruments—the Mongolian Morin Khuur and the pedal harp—suddenly started speaking the same language. The result?a genre-crossing duo that’s as unexpected as it is captivating.They first met onstage in 1998 at Rüdiger Oppermann’s Klangwelten festival.Though their paths have crossed in group projects since, Horse Violin & Jazz Harp is their first duo collaboration—a long-awaited and unexpected musical meeting that feels both fresh and inevitable.
Enkhjargal “Epi” Dandarvaanchig, master of the Mongolian violin and song, moves between cultures , blending the ancient sounds of the Morin Khuur with his powerful voice and a modern, improvisational edge. He takes tradition, bringing the soul of the steppe into every note, and spins it into something entirely his own.
« A listening experience to forget everything else… enormous expressiveness… completely impressive… » (Badisches Tagblatt).
PARK STICKNEY
Park Stickney has played the world over, from Adelaide to Zaragoza.Known best for his improvisational style and glib pithy anecdotes, Stickney offers concertgoers a delightfully novel approach to the harp, with a solid sense of humor, often offbeat but always good-natured. But it’s not all jokes and friendliness:As Peter Kemper noted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:« Breathtaking, of unprecedented intensity..in Stickney’s playing, melodic lines, bass lines and chord progressions seem to interlock seemingly weightlessly. »