🎤Jazz... but make it Mongolian?! Meet Enji.
OK hear me out: Mongolian jazz.
No, not a meme. Yes, it’s genuinely incredible.
you might remember me going on about Ulaan — the haunting, genre-bending album by Enji, a jazz singer from Mongolia. I’m still obsessed.
So, who is Enji?
She grew up in Ulaanbaatar, in a yurt, surrounded by folk music. Her first dream? Becoming a music teacher. Not a performer, not a songwriter — just someone who loves music and wants to share it.
Things took a turn when she joined a Goethe-Institut program and met a jazz bassist. Suddenly she’s in Germany studying jazz vocals. Because… life.
Now she mixes Mongolian long-song vocals (they sound like wind across an open plain) with jazz harmony and improvisation. Think: Ella Fitzgerald meets the steppe.
Her sound is spacious, earthy, a little strange, and totally captivating.
The Guardian called Ulaan “an elegant, powerful reinvention of tradition.” The Washington Post said it’s “inventive, free, and grounded.” Me? I just think it’s the kind of music that makes you stop mid-scroll and stare into space a little.
If you haven’t heard her yet — now’s your chance.
Trust me. Mongolian jazz. It slaps.
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