Tengger
"TENGGER was the most magical of all the performances I watched."
- Bob Boilen (NPR Tiny Desk, All Songs Considered)
“it sounds like music designed to induce enlightenment.”
- The FADER
“Trance-inducing pieces that draw on New Age, Krautrock, and Folk”
- Pitchfork
“Echoes of the kind of krautrock mined by New and Popol Vuh in the ‘70s”
- POPMATTERS
TENGGER is a traveling musical family, made up of Pan-Asian couple, ITTA (from South Korea) and MARQIDO (from Japan), who create their brand of psychedelic New-Age drone magic through the use of Voice, Indian harmonium, and Toy instruments (played by ITTA) and synths & electronics (played by MARQIDO). The duo originally started out with the moniker “10” but since the birth of their son RAAI (who joins them on tour and playing Voice, Synth, Toy Instrument, Dance performance on stage) in 2012, have called themselves TENGGER (meaning ‘unlimited expanse of sky’ in Mongolian) to mark the expansion of the family. It also means ‘huge sea’ in Hungarian. Travel, as spiritual experience in real environments, and the sound between the space and the audience have been central themes of their works. The family’s yearly pilgrimages inform every aspect of their art