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DALI, LIJIANG, LUGU IN YUNNAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2010

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BAI DONGJING 05:48
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BAI DONGJING 06:47
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NAXI ALILI 09:35
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YONGNING BUDDHIST TEMPLE 23:14
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LUGU LAKE ISLAND TEMPLE 13:43
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LUGU LAKE ISLAND TEMPLE 09:13

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DALI / LIJIANG / LUGU LAKE IN CHINA

Dali, Lijiang and the Lugu lake are probably among the most known tourist destinations of Yunnan province, where the tourist can easily discover the most visible part of these cultures, Dali with its BAI s DONGJING associations, Lijiang with its NAXI s ALILI choir and dance, Lugu lake with its MOSUO s tibetan buddhist temples. So here we are with these 3 touristic spots promoting 3 authentic music / religious rituals, what I call the peak of the iceberg !

1,2 DONGJING ensemble recorded in the big fair ( san hue jie ) taking place every year in Dali in march or april, april 2010
The Dongjing associations are a relic of the past where some Bai elite associated with Chinese imperial power started to form those music clubs were the Bai notables started getting into Chinese orchestral forms, it is rather ironic to see nowadays Han tourists coming to Dali to discover ancient BAI music, where they are actually discovering ancient non Bai orchestral music ensembles.

3 ALILI song and dance recorded in Lijiang old town in march 2010
In Lijiang the NAXIs also have Dongjing musical associations with their own specificity, but here we are facing another cliché of Naxi culture : the ALILI dance, gathering about 10 different groups of 10 old women dancing in circle, responding to eachothers and in this case are singing wedding songs for the Naxi march festival, for a large crowd of locals and tourists.

4 YONGNING Tibetan buddhist temple, about 20 monks reciting prayers inside the temple, september 2006
5,6 ZAXI DOJIE is a charismatic MOSUO Tibetan Lama reciting prayers inside the touristic temple on an island on Lugu lake, september 2006
The Mosuo families around Lugu lake give a son (volunteer or obliged) to the tibetan monasteries, established in the area for at least 300 years .


RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU and SHI TANDING

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released April 9, 2010

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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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