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HANI IN YUNNAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2011

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1.
WELCOMING, DRINKING SONG 04:06
2.
WELCOMING, DRINKING SONG 13:30
3.
SUMI YEINYO 04:11
4.
AZHA TSE 07:58
5.
DO DJUI ATSEI 12:50
6.
WUZU ATSEI 09:01
7.
SULAGU 04:51
8.
TZO MOMOLA 06:55
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JEBA CHA SEN 04:06
10.
IYU GU 05:47
11.
BIA TSA TSA 04:27
12.
SHA TSI GU 10:03
13.
TUDZA 04:43

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HANI IN YUNNAN CHINA

The HANI are linguistically derived from the YI branch of the Tibeto-burmese, are a million and half in the southern part of Yunnan above Laos and Vietnam where smaller Hani communities also live. The musicians and singers are from Pushun village, Luomo, Azhahe south of Honghe, including 7 women singers who also use babi (single tree leaf ) and mepa ( rolled up tree leaf in a shape of a horn ) : JA JINU 35 years old, BEN YASEN 40, MA SI SO 50, LI YI NIE 38, TSEI YOSO 31, LI CHUYO 40, SENG SI SO 54. The men: CHENG KESA 54, NO MISE 54 and CAI SHI NYANG 47 are using a chiwo ( a 3 stringed bowed instrument ), a labi ( a 6 holes bamboo flute ), a latche ( a 3 stringed small lute ) and a meba ( a vertical reed instrument )
As with many other ethnic groups of the area, an original traditional singing pattern is used , each singer is adapting the words to the context. Many of these songs express intimate strong emotions that bring tears to the performers, while they are singing. The choir that gather all singers at the same time is a very unique style of vocal polyphony or heterophony ?

1,2 WELCOMING, DRINKING SONG at night in a restaurent
3 SUMI YEINYO song when the daughter leaves home to get married
4 AZHA TSE song to gather the food for pigs
5 DO DJUI ATSEI intimate improvisation between men and women of the same generation
6 WUZU ATSEI song before planting rice to make sure men are not losing their souls
7 SULAGU song of the BEIMA ( shaman) to call back the souls
8 TZO MOMOLA nostalgia of losing youth, LATCHE solo with voice
9 JEBA CHA SEN 2 women, 2 men s dance with masks, one gong, one drum
10 IYU GU responding courting mountain song between men and women
11 BIA TSA TSA song of the bee
12 SHA TSI GU nostalgic song of getting old
13 TUDZA instrumental with choir joining at the end

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU
with ZHANG XIN RONG, PIERRE BOIS, LUCILLE ENEL
IN AZHAHE HONGHE YUNNAN CHINA IN FEB 2011

note: all names of instruments are in Hani language

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released February 12, 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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