Mamer is a Central Asian singer-songwriter at the heart of China’s “alt-country” scene….Hailing from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of Western China, Mamer fuses ancient Kazakh music with modern international folk, helping inspire the creation of a beautiful new genre of music — “Chinagrass.” This video touches on some of Mamer’s pensive work, though he and his band, IZ, also rock out. We’ll enjoy more Chinagrass when our South and Central Asian tour takes us to Western China.
