TAJIK IN PAMIR XINJIANG CHINA 1, by KINK GONG 2016

TAJIK IN PAMIR XINJIANG CHINA 1

by KINK GONG 2016

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	1.	LOVE SONG 04:32
	2.	LOVE SONG 04:53
	3.	LOVE SONG 03:37
	4.	DANCING SONG 02:33
	5.	DANCING SONG 02:16
	6.	DANCING SONG 04:26
	7.	BEAUTIFULL PAMIR 02:53
	8.	DANCING TUNE 01:30
	9.	MY DEAR CHILD 00:58
	10.	XIANG GONGPALA FESTIVAL 02:01
	11.	BIG SNOW 01:25
	12.	MY HOME TOWN TAXKORGAN 02:01
	13.	BEAUTIFULL GIRL 02:22
	14.	LOVE SONG 03:39
	15.	GEMUKA 02:07
	16.	MY DEAR CHILD 02:33
	17.	MISSING YOU 02:17
	18.	LEARNING FROM FATHER 01:25
	19.	BEAUTIFULL HOMETOWM 05:31
	20.	SINCERE DISCUSSION WITH FRIENDS 02:29
	21.	BEAUTIFULL DATONG VILLAGE 02:10

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TAJIK IN SOUTHERN XINJIANG CHINA 1

The majority of the 20 millions Tajik people live in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, only 40 000 live in the southern part of Xinjiang, the Tajiks of China live in Pamir mountain area and speak the eastern Iranic Pamiri language.

Tracks 1 to 6 performed by 6 men ( one singer and 5 men playing :

KASMUJIANG MEMET NADIR 49 years old plays DAP (hand drum), MARDANA QAWALI 37 years old plays RAWAP ( stringed instrument), LUTIK SEPLA 54 years old plays GHIJAK ( small viola)
GERMET MEMETI ABJAR 41 years old plays SAJTAR (stringed instrument)
KADIR MERJA 48 years old plays EAGLE FLUTE (made of eagle wings bone)

1, 2, 3 LOVE SONGS
4, 5, 6 DANCING SONGS

Tracks 7 to 21 performed by

GERMET MEMETI ABJAR 41 years old professional musician plays the SAJTAR ( 6 stringed lute)

7 beautiful Pamir
8 dancing tune
9 my dear child
10 Xiang gongpala festival
11 big snow
12 my hometown is TAXKORGAN
13 beautiful girl
14 love song
15 Gemuka
16 my dear child
17 missing you
18 learning from father
19 beautiful hometown
20 sincere discussion with friends
21 beautiful DATONG ( a village)

RECORDED BY SHI TANDING IN TAXKORGAN, PAMIR, SOUTHERN XINJIANG , CHINA
in JUNE 2016. PHOTO by STEFAN REUTER

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released May 31, 2016

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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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