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LANTENE (MOON) NAMTHA LAOS

by KINK GONG 2010

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1.
LAN PAN MOON canon singing 20:59
2.
MOON history song 43:49

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The YAO who call themselves MIEN or MOON number more than 2.6 million people and are spread over the southern chinese provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan. They also migrated to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the 19th century. Belonging to the Miao-Yao (Hmong Mien) group of the sino-tibetan ethno-linguistic family they have many subgroups usually defined according to colors of their traditional clothes. The MOON, called LANTENE in Lao, are a subgroup of the DARK BLUE YAO (LAN TIEN in chinese) . The People recorded here , moved to NAM DEE village in 1966 but their predecessors moved from China 100 years ago.
The 2 recording songs on this CD are sung versions of written texts in ancient chinese characters, they refer to mythologies of the origin of the MOON, the story start from crossing the big ocean on 3 boats, one sank, the first one carried the people who became the MIEN, the second boat carried the ancestors of the MOON and various historical records including the inner migrations to new villages or the Vietnam war. There are 2 styles of singing, the day one (manna ja sing) and the night one (beu jam sing ), the later being used here, is softer and has longer tones.

1 LAN PAN MOON ( ay jung lan pan moon khon tang di tai ) canon singing performed by 2 women KEO 54 years old and NA 47 years old. First a group of old men wrote down in ancient chinese the text, then read it in Moon language to the 2 ladies who wrote it down in Lao, then sung it in Moon language, in NAM DI village, LUANG NAMTHA november 2010

2 VANXAY 58 years old man wrote a new story that picks up mythological elements of MOON history and performed by the former chief of village BOON CHANH 50 years old man in NAM DI village, LUANG NAMTHA november 2010


RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU IN LUANG NAMTHA province, northern LAOS 2010

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released November 11, 2010

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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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