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Hooked on a feeling: The king of Naga folk blues
Morung Express | Adam Halliday | The Indian Express
“One day, I hope — I dream — that the Northeast will come together. I want an end to our people aping the West,” says Mashangva. Born and raised in a small hamlet in Manipur’s troubled Ukhrul district, Mashangva spent his formative years listening to his father — a carpenter who made him his first guitar — sing the songs of the Tangkhul tribe as they worked together. “My friends from Aizawl make their own guitars as well. We make them from whatever wood we get, so sometimes, the sound is off,” he says with a laugh. In his mid-20s, Mashangva embarked on a journey to collect the songs of his forefathers on audio cassettes.
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