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AKHA SONGS IN CHINA VOL 6

by KINK GONG 2009

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AKHA HANI SONGS IN CHINA VOL 6

The Akha are considered a sub group of the Hani, this tibeto burmese ethnic group is spread over Xishuan banna ( southern part of Yunnan ), Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, they are around half a million people. Meng song village was already occupied by the red army in the 60s and during the cultural revolution period traditional clothes and music were forbidden and ancient culture never really recovered from that prohibition, people in Mengsong walk around without any particular Akha clothe the way they would in Laos or Thailand .
In this collection of chinese Akha songs, the singers are between 60 and 80 years old, they are the only ones who carry on this oral litterature, unknown by younger generations. 3 categories divide the oral transmission of Akha culture, the first one is called do ko ko or recited stories, the 2nd one is called sha ko : Akha melodies accapella or with instruments with words belonging to ancient stories, poetry or new stories, the 3rd one is involving dance while clapping bamboo sticks on the ground and group singing.

BUR JUR a 65 years old Akha woman :
1 LOQ LOQ GUR E lolo song
2 CIR GHANQ joking song

KHA JEU a 70 years old Akha man :
3 GHANR BAE KHOUQ BAE story of a festival
4 MIQ KHAQ BAQ JAWR LAUQ love song
5 MAQ O AQ BAQ a man looking for his lover ( sad love song )

3 AKHA WOMEN SINGING TOGETHER : MIQ NYMT, MIQ DAE, KHEEQ NANQ :
6 AQ NYIT CAEP lullaby
7 MOMO lullaby
8 EQ LEIQ LEIQ SONQ lullaby

PUR LU is a 60 years old Akha woman :
9 GE LA RENZEN welcoming song
10 OQ SAWR AQ BAQ love song

RECORDED IN MENG SONG XISHUAN BANNA YUNNAN CHINA
NOV 2009 BY LAURENT JEANNEAU AND MEI LAN
photo AMIWA/TOLLU

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released November 16, 2009

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Under the name KINK GONG you find 2 activities, the 1st one is to record ethnic minority music mostly in south-east Asia, the 2nd is to transform, collage, recompose the original recordings into experimental soundscapes.

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