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MIAO IN GUIZHOU CHINA

by KINK GONG 2007

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GUPIAOQIN 01:25
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GUPIAOQIN 03:00
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GUPIAOQIN 01:01
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GUPIAOQIN 04:25
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GUPIAOQIN 03:55
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GUPIAOQIN 02:13
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GUPIAOQIN 00:53
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GUPIAOQIN 01:10
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GUPIAOQIN 00:51
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2 WOMEN SONG 09:55
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3 MANTONG 00:40

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MIAO IN GUIZHOU CHINA

The term MIAO is a very ancient Chinese misleading pseudo ethnic categorisation, being roughly called the HMONG in western languages. Miao became a generic term which does not reveal the diversity of 38 subgroups or 9 millions people, mostly in Guizhou province.

The first part (tracks 1 to 14) were recorded in Songlong village, where people identify themselves not as Miao but as GALAO, using a very rare string instrument the GUPIAOQIN (chinese term), played solo or with another gupiaoqin, the wooden instrument is bowed with a bamboo stick rubbed with resin on 2 hemp strings, to be played as home entertainment, singing and drinking parties. The 2 men made 2 new instruments on the spot from previously carved wooden resonance boxes, taking hours to tune properly, and the result is something i ve never heard anywhere else !

1 WOMAN SONG
2,3 2 MEN GUPIAOQIN players
4,5 2 WOMEN SONG
6,7,8,9,10,11,12 GUPIAOQIN DUET
13 2 WOMEN SONG
14 2 GUPIAOQIN + 2 WOMEN SINGERS

The second part was recorded in Paiya village, home of a mouthorgan manufacturer who gathered 2 friends to show us how the GUE sounds like, using 3 different sized GUE mouthorgans, each one having 6 bamboo tubes inserted in a long wooden box connected to the mouth.

15,16,17 3 GUE MOUTHORGANS
18 3 GUE MOUTHORGANS with MANTONG
19 3 different MANTONG (a single note bambootube with a copper reed, inserted into a larger bamboo tube as resonance box

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU & SHI TANDING
JUNE 2007

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released June 7, 2007

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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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