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NUOSU (YI) IN SICHUAN CHINA 2

by KINK GONG 2010

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1.
JEUR BUZA 04:01
2.
PAMBIE 03:33
3.
PAMBIE 02:36
4.
MARORO 02:15
5.
IKA YARO 01:12
6.
7.
8.
MARORO 02:14
9.
MARORO 02:20
10.
MARORO 03:05
11.
MARORO 02:17
12.
MARORO 02:26
13.
MARORO 01:41
14.
MARORO 00:57
15.
MARORO 02:23
16.
AMUNIZE 02:05
17.
DOLORO 02:10
18.
AZANIO 02:28

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NUOSU (YI) IN SICHUAN CHINA 2

Da liangshan in mountainous southern part of Sichuan is home of the main sub group of the YI , who call themselves NUOSU with more than 2 millions people. The particularity of this Yi subgroup is the use of a unique traditional written system, the ancient NUOSU books are used by local shaman called BIMO. Belonging to the tibeto burmese language family, the various Yi subgroups are 8 millions people, established mostly in Yunnan and southern Sichuan. The multi-blades mouthharp is the very special instrument of the NUOSU, called MARORO with 2, 3, 4, or 5 different blades, whether made of bamboo (ancient ones) or copper (recent ones).

Tracks 1 to 7 are performed by DAJIU XIBO a 65 years old Nuosu man who moved to Xichang city 10 years ago.
1 JEUR BUZA small mouth organ of 6 bamboo tubes mounted on a gourd , a happy tune called NUOSU TZOTZOBO
2,3 PAMBIE or SIXIAN (in chinese) 4 stringed instrument with a large round body
4 MARORO or KOIXIAN (in chinese) mouth harp , first he uses a 2 blades bamboo one, then a 3 blades bamboo one
5 IKA YARO, happy mountain song
6,7 KOOGE KOOGE LA playing game tune, using a PAMBIE

Tracks 8 to 14 are performed by ODI JEURO a 60 years old man, using different MARORO
8,9 a 4 blades copper mouth harp
10 a 3 blades bamboo mouth harp
11 a 2 blades bamboo mouth harp
12 a single blade copper mouth harp
13 a 3 blades copper mouth harp
14 a 4 blades copper mouth harp

Tracks 15 to 20 are performed by TZEU TZA a 21 years old woman
15 a 4 blades copper mouth harp
16 AMUNIZE mother s daughter song
17 DOLORO torch festival song
18 AZANIO love song

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU and A SI
in september 2010 in XICHANG, Liangshan, Sichuan, China

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released September 9, 2010

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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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