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JARAÏ FUNERAL CEREMONY IN RATANAKIRI CAMBODIA

by KINK GONG 2004

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1.
5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 14:08
2.
5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 09:55
3.
5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 03:53
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5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 02:09
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5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 05:09
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5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 10:30
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5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 11:04
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5 NIPPLE GONGS + 7 FLAT GONGS + 1 DRUM 05:37
9.
BUFFALO SACRIFICE 35:15

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JARAÏ FUNERAL CEREMONY IN RATANAKIRI CAMBODIA

<In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, only to find themselves relocated to the “killing fields” of the Khmer Rouge regime. Now back in their homeland, they have reestablished agriculture, seed by seed....> Jonathan Padwe 2006

The JARAI are a predominant group in the central plateau of Vietnam, 250 000 people and a much smaller community in northeast Cambodia, may be 20 000 people. They belong to the austronesian family, with other ethnic groups of the area, they share a lot musically, especially the specific use of gongs played in animist ceremonies, but also similar bamboo instruments.
The funeral ceremony was particularly impressive, showing the social status of the dead old man, the ceremony lasting 3 days gathering 300 people, having build up a large wooden totemic structure for the corpse and killing 5 buffaloes while 13 gong players and a drummer were walking, around the coffin, walking a large circle , players and even gongs change in this orchestral performance involving 3 or 5 men hitting with the fist, each a different sized nipple gong and 7 men each playing a different sized flat gong (called ceng or jing) hit with a stick of green wood and a man hitting a drum ( wooden barrel with cow skin)

Tracks 1 and 2 : i stay static and let the gong orkestra pass by, you can hear each gong appear and disappear, from the big nipple gong to the various CENG (flat gongs) defining the melody lines
Tracks 3 to 9 : i try to follow the gong players around the coffin , to get closer to the musical development
9 BUFFALO SACRIFICE at sunrise

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU IN TANGCHI village, ANDONG MIS, RATANAKIRI, CAMBODIA IN MARCH 2004

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released March 24, 2004

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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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