: Hang drum, what type of music is this? I was greatly impressed by the hang when I saw this street player last year. I would like to know if there are other examples in this type of music (sounds like Gypsie music but Im not

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I think this is not a separate musical genre, as much as just the special sound of the Hang drum (which is quite unique!). I think you will find much to like in the same style by just searching for Hang on YouTube: www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hang%3B&search=tag

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You might want to check out:

Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys
Manu Delago
Davide Swarupe

Here's some more:

Portico Quartet
Dante Bucci
Wadhom
Matt Venuti
Masood Ali Khan
Laura Inserra
Janet Spahr

— From HandPansMagazine - Hang/HandPans Music, check it for more information and links.

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The artist you give in reference, Lior Shoov, has not one style in particular but very much a style of her own. She uses one or several hang pans, the ukulele, hand bells. The music itself has motives directly inspired from classical music (and film music à la Yann Tiersen) as in the extract of her performance in Tarrega. Her voice and singing sometimes remind of the famous icelander singer Bjork's style.

In other performances, she sings partly improvised lyrics in Hebrew, the way she plays the hang is sometimes close to a piano, sometimes close to the effect of the jamaican steel drum (this is not surprising because of the basis of the two instruments) but in solo and with less resonance and mixing of successive notes.