Previously known as 10, Korean musicians Itta and Marqido — who are partners in music and in life — changed their performing nom de guerre to TENGGER when their son Raai was born in 2012. Translated to “unlimited expanse of sky” or “Skygod” in Mongolian and “huge sea” in Hungarian, TENGGER embrace something akin to what The Dalai Lama called “Universal Responsibility:” that life’s importance should not be confined just to relationships between “nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.” This is no more apparent than in the duo’s nature hug video for “Ajari,” premiering here today.
TENGGER’s “Ajari” is taken from their forthcoming album Spiritual 2, which is out June 7 on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond. The video pairs peaceful portraits of Itta and Raai taking a forest walk and a beach stalk with a wonderfully repetitive synth journey.
Spiritual 2 can be pre-ordered on CD, DL, and limited clear/regular LPhere. Until those arrive in your inboxes and mailboxes and earboxes, embrace the natural loving-kindness of “Ajari” below:
Spiritual 2 tracklisting:
01. High
02. See
03. Middle
04. Kyrie
05. Ajari
06. Low
07. Wasserwellen
TENGGER live:
11.07.19 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Le Guess Who? Festival
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