ZHUANG & WHITE YI POLYPHONIC SINGING GUANGXI CHINA, by KINK GONG 2017

ZHUANG & WHITE YI POLYPHONIC SINGING GUANGXI CHINA

by KINK GONG 2017

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	1.	SUI MIN 03:56
	2.	LOVE SONG 02:08
	3.	DRINKING SONG 01:55
	4.	DRINKING SONG 01:20
	5.	RESPONSIVE LOVE SONG 10:50
	6.	MOUNTAIN SONG 04:57
	7.	DRINKING SONG 00:47
	8.	DRINKING SONG 02:43
	9.	MY DAUGHTER S WEDDING 05:47
	10.	DRINKING SONG 03:04

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ZHUANG & WHITE YI POLYPHONIC SINGING GUANGXI CHINA

More than 16 millions ZHUANG people make them the most numerous minority group in China, they live in Guangxi province above Vietnam, they are related to the TAY/DAI/ NUNG ethnic family, spread over southern China, northern Myanmar, northern Laos and northern Vietnam.

ZHUANG TRACKS 1 to 4 performed by 4 women in TUN LI TUN village, NAPO county :
LI MEI YAN 50 years old, MA XIU YAN 55, YANG GUI JIN 58, LI CHUN QING 49
1 SUI MIN polyphony
2 Invitation to sing love song, in the style of singing across mountains
3, 4 Drinking song
5 Responsive LOVE song between a man LUO JING CHAO 59 years old and a woman LIANG YAN 39

WHITE YI TRACKS 6 to 10 performed by 2 men and 2 women in DALA village NAPO county :
LIANG YI 77 years old man, WANG YUE GUANG 61 years old man, WANG YAN 50 years old woman and LIANG HAI YING 47 years old woman
6 MOUNTAIN song about cutting bamboos
7, 8 DRINKING song
9 MY DAUGHTER S WEDDING performed by LIANG YI
10 DRINKING song

RECORDED BY SHI TANDING DECEMBER 2017
PHOTO STEFAN REUTER

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released December 15, 2017

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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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