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KAREN SGAW FUNERAL SONGS THAILAND

by KINK GONG 2014

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KAREN SGAW FUNERAL SONGS THAILAND

Estimated 7 millions people in Myanmar and over 500 000 in Thailand, the KAREN ethnic family , a tibeto burmese ethno linguistic group divided in many sub groups, as often in south east Asia the altitude is a hierarchical marker, some Karen live in the plains and the KAREN SGAW are highlanders who mix heterodox Theravada Buddhism with animist beliefs. and came from Myanmar a 100 years ago.
here 4 people from Mae o mong village (Mae hong son) are performing responding singing..
2 men, DAM 45, years old man, OUTAI 53 years old man and 2 women singing canon together LIUMU 56 years old woman, KABOO 67 years old woman responding. The FUNERAL SONGS, lasting 3 , 4 nights, are a kind of prayers , used as a singing contest between different villages, taking place within the funeral ceremony mixing Theravada buddhism and Animism.

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RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU IN MAE HONG SON AREA THAILAND FEB 2014
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released February 22, 2014

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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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