BIT LUANG NAMTHA LAOS, by KINK GONG 2013

BIT LUANG NAMTHA LAOS

by KINK GONG 2013

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	1.	PROTECT THE FOREST 04:14
	2.	LOVE SONG 07:52
	3.	GET TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE VILLAGE 11:14
	4.	LULLABY FOR CHILDREN TO SLEEP 08:06
	5.	TO BRING LUCK TO LAURENT & HIS FAMILY 15:02
	6.	WAKE UP MY BOYFRIEND (FLUTE) 03:33
	7.	PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE FOR DANCE 04:10
	8.	MANDRONG FESTIVAL 08:29
	9.	IMPOSSIBLE LOVE 08:33

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The BIT are an estimated 2000 people ethnic group from the mon khmer family, spread in villages of northern Laos and southern Yunnan in China. Little is known about them, they are locally called LAO BIT and might have been categorized as a Khmu sub group in the past. On this recording a man ( BOON CHOM 63 years old ) plays a Khmu mouthorgan REUN KHEN of 16 bamboo tubes, while a woman NANG TA (in her 40s) sings.
1 protect the forest, don t kill wild animals, the kind of politically correct message introduced and encouraged by government
2 love song of an impossible relationship between a woman who loves a man already engaged
3 get together to improve the village s life
4 lullaby for children to sleep
5 to bring luck to a guy called laurent and his family
6 PEI a short 3 holes bambootube with a reed cut in the bamboo, a tune to wake up your boyfriend

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU IN BOUAN PHIENG village, LUANG NAMTHA province, LAOS
in january 2012

7 percussion ensemble including a gong, a drum and a pair of large cymbals to go along women dancing for the BIT new year on january 25
8/9 performed by BOON CHOM khene player and PAT a 29 years old man singer
8 song for the MANDRONG festival, wishing everyone good luck
9 autobiographic song about impossible love, the man lacking money to pay the bride s parents to marry her

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU & NATHAN BADENOCH IN BOUAN PHIENG village, LUANG NAMTHA province, LAOS
in january 2013

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released January 27, 2013

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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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