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NYAHEUN IN LAOS

by KINK GONG 2006

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3 GONGS 04:57
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Champasak is the southern province of Laos, bordering Cambodia and Thailand, for centuries it was a small Lao kingdom. The Nyaheun are a very small ethnic group of 2000 people, belonging to the Mon khmer family like most of other ethnic groups of the area.
Their music combines a gong, mouthorgan and very melancholic molam singing techniques. Like most ethnic minority people, they have been forced by the Lao government to abandon swidden agriculture and their forest and have been moved to recomposed villages by the side of the road, on dry land .

1 3 nipple gongs performed by 3 men

2.3.4.5 Jeu phawn peng gawng ploung ken, played by 4 people from the Heuny (Nya Heun) ethnic group using one small nippled gong (gawng) and one mouth organ (khen) made of 10 bamboo tubes, 2 men and a woman alternatively sing. These improvised song are about the traditional customs of the Heuny people.

6,7 gong neer youan, a pair of flat gongs hanged and hit by 2 men with sticks on both sides of the gongs

8 same as tracks 2,3,4,5

RECORDED by LAURENT JEANNEAU and IAN BAIRD
IN OUPASA, PAKSONG, CHAMPASAK, LAOS, IN FEBRUARY 2006

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released February 12, 2006

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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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