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BULANG LAWA IN YUNNAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2011

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1.
ORPHAN SONG 01:06
2.
DAGONG SONG 01:06
3.
DAGONG SONG 01:29
4.
JOKING SONG 05:53
5.
NIUTUIQIN 11:01
6.
NIUTUIQIN 24:13

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BULANG 1 LAWA IN CHINA

The LAWAs have been incorporated arbitrarily as BULANG ( 100 000 people ) subgroup by the communist party in the 60s, first called PUMAN by the Chinese, belonging to the Mon Khmer ( austro asiatic ) linguistic family ( spread from Cambodia to eastern India ) and divided into sub groups with distinctive languages, they are 32 000 Bulang in Lincang. The LAWA are one of them. Few Bulang villages haven t converted to Theravada Buddhism, while most did under the influence of Dai who ruled the area for centuries before the Han chinese moved in. Religious music as much as non religious one still carry the Dai cultural influence. The music was recorded in Lincang prefecture in Yunnan and is obviously different from the music of the main branch of Bulang in Xichuan Banna prefecture further south.

1 woman s song performed by LI SEN MEI 50 years old
2, 3 woman song about working migrations of local people who go to work anywhere in China for a few months or years and come back home (DAGONG)
4 women s duo

tracks 5 and 6 : the niu tui qin ( string instrument with a cow leg shape ) is a small 3 stringed lute plucked with the hard extremity of a chicken s feather, was used as an intimate way to ask permission to a girl to let the player comes in.
5 NIU TUI QIN performed by one man
6 NIU TUI QIN and song performed by 2 old men both 80 years old


RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU with HUANG PEISHAN and OLIVIER SCHNEIDER in ANANJIE village, SHUANGJIANG district, LINCANG prefecture, YUNNAN province, CHINA in october 2011

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released October 10, 2011

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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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