WU (BULANG) BUDDHIST TEMPLE YUNNAN CHINA, by KINK GONG 2011

WU (BULANG) BUDDHIST TEMPLE YUNNAN CHINA

by KINK GONG 2011

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	1.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 12:34
	2.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 03:35
	3.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 08:56
	4.	LARGE TEMPLE DRUM solo + PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 02:53
	5.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 03:45
	6.	ERHU solo 03:46
	7.	WOMEN VOCAL CHOIR 01:31
	8.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 10:04
	9.	PERCUSSIONS ENSEMBLE 03:34
	10.	WOMEN VOCAL CHOIR 03:01

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BULANG WU BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN YUNNAN CHINA

The BULANG ( 100 000 people ), first called PUMAN by the Chinese belong to the Mon Khmer ( austro asiatic )linguistic family ( spread from Cambodia to eastern India ) and divided into sub groups with distinctive languages, they are 32 000 Bulang in Lincang. The WU are one of them. Few Bulang villages haven t converted to Theravada Buddhism, while most did under the influence of Dai who ruled the area for centuries before the chinese moved in. Religious music as much as non religious one still carry the Dai cultural influence. The music was recorded in Lincang prefecture in Yunnan and is obviously different from the music of the main branch of Bulang in Xichuan Banna prefecture further south.
M.FANG has been our guide into the musical culture of the buddhist temple right next to his home in Da Bang Xie village, tracks 1 to 5 are a large percussions ensemble for the theravada buddhist new year mid of april, 8 women are dancing in a circle holding and hitting each a SA TOUA HUM drum, in the center a man hits a SA TOUA A, a 1m20 high drum, outside of the dancing circle a man or a monk hits the huge temple drum called SA TOUA A, or SA TOUA NOI SO A, 2 gongs of different size ( BA UOM ) and 2 pairs of cymbals ( BA CHIANG ) are also being used in the ceremony
1 to 5 DRUM ENSEMBLE the first night
6 ERHU a chinese 2 stringed bowed fiddle
7 8 WOMEN VOCAL CHOIR
9, 10 DRUM ENSEMBLE with 8 women dancing in a circle holding and hitting each a SA TOUA HUM with 2 gongs of different size (small BA UOM and large GANG HUM ) and 2 pairs of cymbals ( BA CHIANG ) happening the next morning
11 8 WOMEN VOCAL CHOIR

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU with HUANG PEISHAN and OLIVIER SCHNEIDER
in DA BANG XIE village, SHUANGJIANG district, LINCANG prefecture, YUNNAN province, CHINA
in october 2011

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released October 22, 2011

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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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