BRAO GONGS LAOS, by KINK GONG 2006

BRAO GONGS LAOS

by KINK GONG 2006

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	1.	HAMONG 3 GONGS 03:32
	2.	HAMONG 3 GONGS 02:14
	3.	HAMONG 3 GONGS 01:15
	4.	HAMONG 5 GONGS 04:42
	5.	HAMONG 5 GONGS 03:09
	6.	KANYING 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 01:03
	7.	KANYING 5 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS + SONG 05:00
	8.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 05:33
	9.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 06:17
	10.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 03:38
	11.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 01:29
	12.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 01:44
	13.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 01:35
	14.	LUN 5 GONGS + CYMBALS 02:04
	15.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 05:40
	16.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 03:36
	17.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 04:15
	18.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 02:12
	19.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 02:19
	20.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 02:46
	21.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 03:33
	22.	LAVE 3 GONGS + 5 FLAT GONGS 05:45

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The BRAO people are 60000 people, living in southern Laos and northeast Cambodia, they belong to the Mon khmer family and are the first inhabitants of this area. With other ethnic groups in Cambodia and Vietnam, animist ceremonies are using gong ensembles to go along buffalo sacrifices and rice alcohol consumption. Playing gongs requires as many people as gongs, on this cd the various BRAO sub groups of Attapeu and Champasak provinces of southern Laos perform with different numbers of gongs ( 3 gongs is less and less used, 5 gongs has become the norm, 8 or 10 or 13 gongs are also being played according to the occasion ) and different gongs ( the nipple gongs being more or less called gawg, the flat gongs being called ceng/jing and additional small pair of cymbals called char.
1,2,3 3 nipple gongs performed by 3 men of HAMONG BRAO sub group in Ta oom village Attapeu province
4,5 5 nipple gongs performed by 5 men of HAMONG BRAO sub group in ta oom village Attapeu province
6 5 nipple gongs + a pair of cymbals performed by 6 men of KANYING BRAO sub group in Ee toom village attapeu province
7 one man hitting several gongs on the ground while singing with 5 gongs performed by 6 men of KANYING BRAO sub group in Ee toom village attapeu province
8 to 14 5 gongs + a pair of cymbals performed by 6 men of LUN BRAO sub group in Ban na village in Champasak province
15 to 22 3 nipple gongs + 5 jing ( flat gongs ) performed by 8 BRAO LAVE men of Phonsaat village in Champasak province

RECORDED IN LAOS BY LAURENT JEANNEAU AND IAN BAIRD IN
FEB MARCH 2006

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released March 13, 2006

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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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