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BLACK LU IN VIETNAM

by KINK GONG 2007

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LU lullaby 01:09

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BLACK LU IN NORTHERN VIETNAM 2007

The Lu are a very small ethnic group located in the province of La Chau in northern part of Vietnam, they are somehow related to the Tai Kadai of northern Laos. The most distinctive detail in their look is the women s black teeth. Here you can listen to 2 flute players, the bamboo tube is inserted inside the left part of the mouth, each man has a different sized flute, the larger one is called bei ma, the smaller one bei boo, their playing goes along with a singer, man or woman.
Tracks 1 to 3 were recorded in Sapa on a sunday when those women come to sell some embroderies, from their hometown in La chau district.

1,2,3 woman solo songs in Sapa July 2006

4 to 11 tracks were recorded in ban Pape, outside of Binlu, December 2007
4 one woman s song with a flute player, singing about how the man comes to the home of a girl to ask her parents to let them marry
5 one man s courting song to seduce a girl, with a flute player
6 one woman s song welcoming guests from far away, with 2 flute players
7 one woman s song relating relatives coming back home, with 2 flute players
8 one woman s song "where the flowers blossom", with 2 flute players
9 one man s song, expressing gratitude to a woman s hospitality, with a flute player
10 one woman s "good harvest" song, with 2 flute players
11 lullaby

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU 2006 2007

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released December 30, 2007

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kinkgong Berlin, Germany

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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