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KRUNG GONGS FUNERAL RATANAKIRI CAMBODIA

by KINK GONG 2003

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A 2 days funeral ceremony is taking place on the village s place, on the coffin, containing a dead oldman, are sitting 2 women, relatives of the dead man, they re singing and crying surrended by an ensemble of 13 gongs (CING GONG : 5 nipple gongs and 8 flat gongs), the 13 men each playing 1 gong are turning around the coffin all night. This music is tabu for Krung people to listen to outside of a funeral ceremony.

6 TRACKS RECORDED DURING THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE CEREMONY BY LAURENT JEANNEAU in KROLA village, RATANAKIRI, CAMBODIA DECEMBER 2003

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released December 12, 2003

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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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