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MOON (DARK BLUE YAO) YUNNAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2009

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MOON (DARK BLUE YAO) YUNNAN CHINA

The YAO who call themselves MIEN / MOON are more than 2 millions people spread over the southern chinese province of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, but have also migrated to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the 19 th century. Belonging to the tibeto burmese family, they have many subgroups usually defined according to colors of their traditional clothes. Here you can listen to the dark blue YAO ancient songs, some being well known and some being recited by reading ancient books written in chinese characters, often refferring to ancient Taoism.

1 EQUALITY SONG (ping deng tuan jie) performed by 2 men YANG CHUN JIN and YANG BAO CHENG
2,3 SONGS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD (kai tian pi di) performed by 2 women DENG FU MEI and ZHANG WU MEI
4,5 MOUNTAIN SONG (shan ge) performed by 2 men and 2 women (same people as above)
6 SONG FOR CELEBRATING WHEN SOMEONE BECOMES ADULT (cheng ren yi shi) performed by 2 men YANG CHUN JIN and LI YUAN HONG
7,8 SONGS FOR THE DRAGON (ji long jie) performed by the same 2 men as on track 6
9 SONG FOR CLEARING UP IN THE MOUNTAIN (kai shan ge) performed by one man LI YUAN HONG


RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU AND SHI TANDING
IN YAO ZHAI VILLAGE, AZHAHE HONGHE YUNNAN CHINA
IN MARCH 2009
note: all titles of songs are in chinese language

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released March 23, 2009

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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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