The Tibetan prince of music: Derge Yer
China’s First Original Tibetan Band
Picture source: Derge Yer’s official microblog
Courtesy of the Marnyi Stone band
The Marnyi Stone band is China’s first original Tibetan band. In 2011, the band was the champion in the China Tibetan Music Competition. The band was also the first in China to feature musicians from Tibet, Qinghai, and Yunnan. Their representative songs include: “Snow Lotus in My Heart,” “The Himalayas,” “The Six-Word Mantra,” etc. Their Zhamunian guitar player, Phurchung Tsering, was born in Baina County of Tibet. He has studied the Zhamunian guitar since childhood. Gerong Bunorb, the leader of the band and also the chord player, is from Shangri-La of Yunnan, while the guitar player Bayi Erta is a Mongolian from Xinjiang Urgur Autonomous Region .
The Marnyi Stone band combines elements of the east and the west, featuring western instruments like the guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, and tambourine, as well as Tibetan instruments like the mandoline, the ancient Zhamunian guitar, and the Mongolian matouqin (a 2-stringed instrument). The band sings ancient Tibetan songs but also uses international elements like the blues, the flamingo, the gypsy, etc. Derge Yer calls ethnic music with international features like this “New Tibetan Music.”
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