2018-02-07

More on female singer/songwriters

I have seen a comment that Harmogu was like the "Mongolian Taylor Swift".  But surely that is backwards, and it would be better to say that Taylor Swift was like the "American Harmogu".  But that is wrong too, because Taylor Swift is not actually good enough for the comparison to be apt.
Reminiscing after receiving reminders of past days, I discovered a much more apt parallel.  It turns out that Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" is the highest ranked song performed and written by a woman on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time.  Like Harmogu, Tracy can sing a mean cover:
"Stand By Me"

But she is at her best when singing her original, so poetic words, in a voice that is hers and hers alone, not to be compared to anyone else on the planet.
"Talking Bout A Revolution"
Given those incomparables, I am not comparing Harmogu to Tracy Chapman, only suggesting a parallel.  The way forward for a unique poetic and musical talent is just to run with it and never look back.

2018-02-01

Harmogu at 2 (Хармогү, миний дэлхий даяар дуртай дуучин үргэлжлүүлсэн)

So today already marks the SECOND anniversary of my discovery of Harmogu.
Amazing how time is flying by (би нисч байна)!  I have to pay tribute again to the special combination of factors that unlocked the dream chamber of my mind, most of all the siren song that is Harmogu's voice.  
I hope that the fortune I received yesterday is true.  At least I am trying to follow that path to achieve the level of unique expression that Harmogu has already mastered.
A year ago I wrote a post that described the start of the process that had taken hold of me, but now what I once described a smoldering peat fire has grown deep roots, transforming me as it works its way deeper within.  I was right to be fascinated.  Since then, my fascination has only increased, and the inspiration has been continuous, even as every up and down has generated its own ideas.  Those ideas will eventually become the words that I hope will express the ideal conjured by contact with Harmogu.