TA OI SARAVAN LAOS 1, by KINK GONG 2012

TA OI SARAVAN LAOS 1

by KINK GONG 2012

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	1.	KHENE MOLAM TA OI language 04:16
	2.	KHENE MOLAM NKRIANG language 02:46
	3.	KHENE MOLAM TA OI language 02:28
	4.	KHENE with responsive singing 07:43
	5.	KHENE with responsive singing 14:18
	6.	KHENE with responsive singing 13:53
	7.	KHENE with responsive singing 14:28
	8.	KHENE with responsive singing 04:27

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Estimated 70 000 TA OI people live half in Saravan, and Sekong Laotian provinces, the other half in Vietnam . These so called highlanders belong to the ethno linguistic group of the Mon khmers and like most ethnic groups of Laos, they have been displaced from their forest envirronment by the government of Laos during the last 20 years. It is hard to say when the khen (mouthorgan) became part of the TA OI musical patrimony, it might be recent .

ONG a 32 years old Katang TA OI man and VINH a 40 years old NKRIANG (NGE) man are switching between the use of a Lao khen (a 16 bamboo tubes mouthorgan): mo khen and the oratory art of mo lam (improvised singing). ONG sings in TA OI language, while VINH sings in NKRIANG language, a third man (POLAI 50 years old) is hitting a bucket as a drum. Many ethnic minority people are fluent in various local ethnic and main group languages, in this case Ta oi, Nkriang, Pacoh, Lao and Vietnamese
The main theme of this improvised singing is love, it can be courting, serious or joking, formal or sexual, but also nostalgic, missing a girl, how to get a girl from the mountain villages, the lack of love of the widow, the lack of money, the importance of the nature, the time of the buffalo sacrifice....
The specificity of ONG s singing style in TA OI language is to sing high pitch like a woman voice
tracks 1,3, in TA OI language
tracks 2,8 in NKRIANG language
tracks 4,5,6,7 responsive singing in both languages

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU & EMANUEL GSCHIEL in december 2012 in Saenveng village, TADLO waterfalls, Saravan, Laos. photo MICHEL MARIANI

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released December 12, 2012

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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.