TA OI SARAVAN LAOS 2, by KINK GONG 2013

TA OI SARAVAN LAOS 2

by KINK GONG 2013

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	1.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 02:53
	2.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 05:09
	3.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM responsive singing between a woman and a man 03:53
	4.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 02:37
	5.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 03:41
	6.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 03:20
	7.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 06:28
	8.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 01:58
	9.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 02:28
	10.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 05:15
	11.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 03:54
	12.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 02:33
	13.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 04:32
	14.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 01:39
	15.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 01:34
	16.	TA OI MOKHEN MOLAM 02:06

about

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 (highlander) TA OI man and KEO a 50 years old TA OI woman are performing a mix of original TA OI improvised duet, using a Lao khen (a 16 bamboo tubes mouthorgan): mo khen and the oratory art of mo lam (improvised singing). KEO sings in TA OI language, a third man (POLAI 50 years old) is hitting a drum. Improvised singing always involve a lot of autobiographic informations about the singer, and the consumption of alcohol guarantees less introvert behaviour. Many themes of this improvised singing are referring to their own history, a 50 years old person is inevitably going to sing about the Vietnam war in which they were tragically involved, love is also a big part , it can be courting, serious or joking, formal or sexual, but also nostalgic, missing someone, the lack of love of an older woman, the lack of money, mentioning in the song the presence of a KHON FARANG (white guy) and everything that make their culture, sometimes borrowing from the Lao lam Saravan style.

12 first tracks sung by KEO
13 sung by a man
14,15 sung by ONG with a woman s voice
16 sung by ONG with a man s voice

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU & EMANUEL GSCHIEL in january 2013 in Saenveng village, TADLO waterfalls, Saravan, Laos.

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released January 18, 2013

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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.