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BRAO LAVE GONGS LAOS

by KINK GONG 2006

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BRAO LAVE IN CHAMPASAC LAOS FEBRUARY 2006

Champasac is the southern province of Laos, bordering Cambodia and Thailand, for centuries it was a small Lao kingdom. The BRAOs called LAVE by the Lao, are good gong players, but most gongs have disappeared and are harder to find than in Cambodia, on this cd the musicians have restarted to play gongs only a few years ago when a canadian anthropologist was able to provide them with gongs. They belong to the MON khmer family and are the first inhabitants of the area. The Braos are on both sides of the boarder in Cambodia and Laos, with other ethnic groups south and east they share a lot musically especially the fascination for gong playing in animist ceremonies, but also similar bamboo instruments. Like most ethnic minority people, they have been forced by the Lao government to abandon swidden agriculture and their forest and have been moved to villages by the side of the road, on dry land, their village is often referred as Kilometer 36, 36 km south of Pakse and has 2 sides a Brao one and a Nkriang side.

Recorded in Touay/ Phaosamphan village, Pathoumphone district, Champasak province.

1 Gong orkestra, played by 10 people from the Brao ethnic group. Using a set of 3 nippled gongs (gawng), 3 flat gongs (jing), 3 sets of cymbals (char), and one drum (hageur), this song is played at various animist ceremonies
2,3 5 nippled gongs
4,5,6 Gong orkestra, played by 10 people from the Brao ethnic group. Using a set of 3 nippled gongs (gawng), 3 flat gongs (jing), 3 sets of cymbals (char), and one drum (hageur)
7 Tha , a pair of flat gongs played by 2 men hitting both sides of the gongs with sticks

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU WITH IAN BAIRD

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released February 22, 2006

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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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