YI NISU IN YUNNAN CHINA 4, by KINK GONG 2011

YI NISU IN YUNNAN CHINA 4

by KINK GONG 2011

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	1.	NIGHT ORCHESTRA 1 02:40
	2.	NIGHT ORCHESTRA 2 40:41
	3.	NIGHT ORCHESTRA 3 03:14
	4.	NIGHT ORCHESTRA 4 01:01

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YI NISU IN YUNNAN CHINA 4

The Nisu, a sub group of the so called Yi previously called Lolo by the Hans are more than one million people in the southern part of Yunnan, belonging to tibeto burmese ethno-linguistic family. The area of Azhahe south of Honghe is home of the southern group of Nisu and other ethnic groups like the Hani or Yao.
Here you can listen to the traditional Nisu orchestra, gathering 11 people between 35 and 69 years old. The men instrumentalists are
DA LUSHA called WANG LILIANG in chinese 63 years old plays isong (2 double stringed plucked instrument with a large round body ) and singer
WU BIEN REN 69 plays saxian (3 stringed plucked instrument with a small body) and fili ( a small bamboo reed instrument),
PEI LIMI 46 plays nuri ( a vertical bamboo flute,
HU TZAMI 50 plays tsifili ( a bamboo flute with a copper reed ),
TSA CHATE 48 plays chenyen (a 2 stringed bowed instrument: a bamboo erhu),
LI LISANG 35 plays liver ( an horizontal bamboo flute),
LI WEIYI 51 plays sip ( a leaf from a tree),
HO HATZA 55 plays saxian.
LI SE 56 is a male singer and dancer.
The singing women are TZA POSI 46, PU SANSEI 49 and LI APA 49 who also use muga ( copper jew s harp ) and munga ( bamboo jew s harp)

4 TRACKS recorded in the evening , forming a long improvisation about love that leads to dancing.

note: all names of instruments are in NISU language

RECORDED BY LAURENT JEANNEAU
with ZHANG XIN RONG, PIERRE BOIS, LUCILLE ENEL
IN DISHI VILLAGE, AZHAHE HONGHE YUNNAN CHINA IN FEB 2011

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released February 12, 2011

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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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