Enji „Ulaan“ Among the Best 10 Jazz Albums of 2023

Washington Post: „Sometimes, the best music is a get-out-of-your-life machine. It can transport you to realms beyond language, impossible retro-futures, alien atmospheres, Mongolia-via-Brazil. Other times, music can make mundane places — the streets of D.C., the basements of Baltimore, a MARC train ride from one to the other — feel profoundly enchanted. You see where I’m going with this. Here are my favorite pop albums of 2023.“

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The year’s most thrilling albums were made by artists pushing beyond borders, teaming with new collaborators and making bold statements of their own.

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10. Enji, ‘Ulaan’

Don’t beat yourself up too hard for missing this one when it came out in July, but don’t let it pass you by: the third release from a young Mongolian-born, Munich-based singer with a voice pitched just above a whisper. Enji mixes cool jazz registers with echoes of her home country’s “long song” (Urtiin Duu) tradition. Cafe-style jazz singers like this rarely sound so unpretentious, original and free.

Source: Giovanni Russonello Dec. 7, 2023, The New York Times, Link to source