That's us! We are the HU. And what we play is Hunnu rock.
Dashka, our producer, came up with the idea about nine years ago
while he was visiting his father's native land.
That's Chandmani Sum, the province of Khovd,
the place where throat singing originated.
He wanted to create a beautiful song for his father and his ancestors
the people he came from.
So then he started researching
to come up with a way to create something with throat singing.
That's when we came in.
In 2016 the four of us got together
with our producer and we started our project.
It started when Steve Schnur from EA
reached out to our manager, Tuga.
He said EA was interested in our music,
and wondered if it would be possible for us
to work together on something for a STAR WARS video game.
And then our managers, Tuga and Brandon Friesen, started the process.
When they told us we might be working on something for STAR WARS,
and possibly writing a song for a STAR WARS game,
it was a jaw-dropping moment for all of us.
We were so excited.
We worked very hard to get this song made.
At first, when Tuga, our manager,
told us about making a song for a STAR WARS game,
we couldn't believe it.
We wondered if it was a joke,
or if it was actually true.
It was really hard to believe until we started writing the song.
That's when it became real, when we started working on the song.
My dream has come true.
It is such an honor to be a part of this project
for this big galaxy, especially since
the STAR WARS movies are some of my favorite.
This song was written for STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER specifically.
For the song to mean anything,
and make sense to us,
we had to write the lyrics in Mongolian first.
Then we performed it
during our live shows in Europe and the U.S.
And then we wrote lyrics in a language authentic to STAR WARS,
with the guidance of the game's creators
as we got closer to the launch of STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER.
The song is called "Suugan Essena."
Everything in STAR WARS is unique,
the characters included, and they even have their own language.
That's why we had to create a unique language
for our STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER song.
As we worked on this song,
we thought about Eternal Blue Sky,
about its power and, as Gala said earlier,
about how it aligned with power in STAR WARS.
and how it would translate into a spoken language.
All our musical instruments are custom-made for our band only.
Mongolian traditional instruments
such as Morin Khuur (horse-head fiddle)
Tovshuur (Mongolian guitar), and Tsuur
were inherited from our ancestors from thousands of years ago.
We've kept the original acoustics and sound
and we only changed their design and the way they looked
to fit in with our style of music and our band.
Our people, the Mongolians, are known for silver plating
and for studding with gemstones.
We wanted to share that culture with the world.
For example, the traditional horse-head fiddle
is made with the horse's head facing the audience,
but we decided to change that.
Why couldn't our fiddle look at the musician?
And because we play rock music,
we also needed to have cool artwork and designs on our instruments.
Our music bridges the gap between the past and the present,
between the west and the east.
It's about bringing the timeline together,
where old meets new, just like in STAR WARS.
The special STAR WARS galaxy,
and the uniqueness of our music have converged.
Our music blends the ancient with the modern,
and brings the west together with the east.
That is a lot like the rebuilding
that goes on in STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER.
It was perfect to express the power from above
by using our unique instruments and throat singing,
because of the acoustics of instruments like our horse-head fiddle
and because of our singing style.
Expressing the power of Black Thunder with our instruments
aligned perfectly with the themes of STAR WARS.
My childhood dream was wonderful.
Then, I would pretend I was holding a real lightsaber,
but today, when I held Cal's lightsaber,
it felt like I was one of the Jedi, with all their power.
It proves to me that dreams really do come true.
We each have our own color,
which is meaningful for each of us, personally.
The instrument that I play is green
and it represents mother nature.
I would go with green.
My horse-head fiddle is called Thunder.
I'll have to go with lightning blue for my lightsaber.
As for me, I represent the wind in our band
because I play wind instruments.
So I would choose yellow.
My horse-head fiddle symbolizes fire,
and the color of my instrument is red.
So I would pick red.
That was the end of our US tour, and it has been wonderful.
We've had about 60 shows,
and most of them were sold out.
We've felt so welcome, and the American audience was amazing.
Of course, Los Angeles is a fabulous place,
and it is the center of entertainment, because that's where Hollywood is.
It was a very special day.
Our partners and close friends,
who had been working with us on this project,
got together to be there with us.
It was an unforgettable night.
We had a very energetic audience at an awesome venue.
We also performed with two other artists.
