PACOH IN LAOS 2

tracks 1 to 6 performed by BEU HEU 80 years old man
01 song about the hard life
02 courting a girl
03 song about not being loved by the one he loves
04 song about the hunter gatherers who sleep outside
05 song about having a son who went to work for the government to support his family
06 song about the war

07,08 performed by KANAP a woman in her 40s who sings about her life, blowing on a bomb, lost her father, survived with her mother, not having a husband and having to deal with hard life

09,10,11 performed by YA LOUAN a 65 years old woman who sings about a woman in love with a blindman but her parents refused him for not being able to support a family and generally about arranged marriage where the parents choose an economically suitable husband

12 performed by BOR YA a 70 years old man singing about the lack of food

13 performed by BOR YA singing about his son, worrying that he won t find a job

14 performed by YA LOUAN singing about being a soldier in the vietnamese army in war time and never receiving any money from them

15 KON LIET 60 years old man sings with mouthorgan
16,17 khen (small 14 bamboo tubes mouthorgan) with lam (singing) about the war, when americans could just come here and kill us, now white people coming to drink with us
18,19 khen and a pair of very high pitch cymbals with man singing
20 khen and a pair of very high pitch cymbals with 2 men singing
21,22, 23 about being old and about finding a young girl, about being an orphan, about not being able to have children and be worried about his future, about his wife who left him and have no news, the wife parents want their daughter back cause the husband did not pay the bride s price
24 poor life
25 love song between a girl on one side of the river and one boy on the other side of the river
26 impro on feeling good with us and hoping that we will come back again

27 woman pounding the rice in the morning

28 3 songs performed by Jat 70 years old woman 1 about the death of her husband, 2 about the killing of her father during the war and 3 about eating bamboos when ther s nothing else to eat

RECORDED IN TANGO village, Saravan , Laos by LAURENT JEANNEAU and EMANUEL GSCHIEL in janaury 2013