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KHMU OU IN PHONGSALY LAOS

by KINK GONG 2012

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1.
TOT FLUTE 03:24
2.
TOT FLUTE 01:54
3.
KHENE MOUTHORGAN 04:08
4.
KHENE MOUTHORGAN 01:31
5.
TOT FLUTE 05:12
6.
PEUN MEUG sung poetry TEUM SONG 06:16
7.
TEUM SONG 05:53
8.
GOODBYE SONG 03:02
9.
SONG ON AMERICAN BOMBS 03:52
10.
TOT FLUTE 04:56
11.
INTRODUCTION SONG WITH KHENE 01:28
12.
TERNEM HEMP NEI SONG WITH KHENE 04:10
13.
KROTAI GAI YET PO SONG WITH KHENE 05:25
14.
TEUM SONG 03:00
15.
JIAKOOT BAMBOO TUBE 02:04
16.
JIAKOOT BAMBOO TUBE 03:34
17.
PI BAMBOO REED 01:12
18.
TOT FLUTE 03:07

about

The KHMU number 450,000 in Northern Laos and small communities in Vietnam, China and Thailand. Belonging to the Mon-Khmer ethno-linguistic family the KHMU are divided into many sub-groups. Many KHMU in Laos have been acculturated to Lao ways and now this music can mainly be found in remote rural places where the older people still remember their traditional music and singing techniques.

The KHMU of Phongsaly call themselves KHMU OU, reffering to the OU river.

The following tracks were recorded in MEUANG KHOUA, PHONGSALY
1,2 TOT a fresh bamboo tube with 2 holes for fingers and one hole for blowing and singing at the same time, always played by women - performed by THENE a woman in her 40s
3 KHENE (LAO 16 bamboo tube mouth organ) Khmu tunes - performed by KHAENE 73yr old man
4 KHENE Lao tune performed by KHAENE
5 TOT - performed by THENE
6,7 PEUN MEUG sung poetry ( TEUM ) relating to Khmu history, codes of ancestor worship and asking his lover to wait for him - performed by BOON LONG (61yr oldman)
8 GOODBYE SONG, blessing relatives who leave - performed by KWMJUR (62yr oldwoman)
9 SONG on the american bombing from 1968 to 1973 in Phongsaly - performed by KWMJUR
10 TOT - performed by KWMJUR
The following songs were recorded in a village outside of OUDOMXAY town - performed by SISAMONG 20yr old female singer and SOMWANG 19 khen player
11 INTRODUCING THEMSELVES
12 TERNEM HEMP NEI : Pity me. I am not beautiful. I am poor and nobody likes me
13 KROTAI GAI YET PO I'm a farmer girl but let's be together in my small house
and have a life together
14 TEUM performed by SISAMONG
15,16 JIAKOOT prepared green bamboo tube hit on the palm of the hand by nang YANG a 60 years old woman in Weipa village, south Phongsaly province
17 PI small bamboo reed instrument
18 TOT performed by nang YANG

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU. PHOTO : DAVID HARRIS
IN PHONGSALY and OUDOMXAY, LAOS in june 2010 & december 2012

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released November 30, 2012

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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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