HUA MIAO IN SICHUAN CHINA, by KINK GONG 2006

HUA MIAO IN SICHUAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2006

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	1.	WEDDING DANCE 03:39
	2.	WEDDING DANCE 03:36
	3.	HULUSHEN 02:46
	4.	HULUSHEN 01:24
	5.	HULUSHEN 03:57
	6.	HULUSHEN 01:43
	7.	HULUSHEN 01:38
	8.	OLD WOMAN SONG 05:34
	9.	OLD WOMAN SONG 01:56
	10.	HULUSHEN 06:30
	11.	OLD WOMAN SONG 01:05
	12.	WOMAN SONG 01:38
	13.	FUNERAL LUSHEN 06:18
	14.	FUNERAL LUSHEN 05:48
	15.	WEDDING SONGS 14:30
	16.	NEW SONG WITH GUITAR 02:45

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HUA MIAO IN SICHUAN CHINA

Da liangshan in mountainous southern part of Sichuan is home of various Tibetan, Yi,and other smaller ethnic groups, like this small community of Flower Hmong or Hua Miao in chinese, they migrated from Guizhou ( where nowadays 9 millions MIAO people live) in the 19th century and establish themselves up in mountains around Muli. The main music instrument is the mouthorgan, lushen in chinese, the hulushen ( bamboo tubes mounted on a gourd) is the predominant kind of mouthorgan being used for entertainment, where the long tubes lushen mounted on a wooden resonance box is here used only for funerals. They do not follow tibetan buddhism, like others do in this part of Sichuan under tibetan influence, but have their own animist belief system.

We were invited to a wedding ceremony up in the mountain, taking place in a large wooden house with 2 floors, in one room were gathered mostly teenagers having their rave, while in another room was taking place a circle dance of men and women responding to eachothers with a HULUSHEN player in the center playing and dancing, the floor was covered of fresh pines from pine trees and alcohol was being served to dancing members of the ceremony.

1, 2 wedding ceremony dance, a Hulushen player is in the center of a crowd turning around with men responding singing to women, inside the wooden house of the wedding.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 hulushen small mouthorgan of 6 bamboo tubes inserted in a gourd
8, 9 old women song
10 hulushen
11 old woman song
12 woman song
13, 14 long bamboo tubes mouthorgan, used for funerals, performed by one man
15 wedding songs of advice performed by one man
16 new song with guitar

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU and SHI TANDING
in september 2006 in Baicaoping and Chutouwan villages, Muli, Liangshan, Sichuan, China

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released September 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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