ZHUANG & YAO BRONZE DRUMS GUANGXI CHINA, by KINK GONG 2018

ZHUANG & YAO BRONZE DRUMS GUANGXI CHINA

by KINK GONG 2018

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	1.	3 TONG GU 27:08
	2.	9 BEAT RYTHM 02:30
	3.	4 TONG GU 05:59
	4.	4 TONG GU 04:57
	5.	7 women each playing a large DRUM 05:42
	6.	TONG GU 02:53
	7.	BUFFALO HORN 03:03
	8.	TONG GU 02:57
	9.	LALI 02:05
	10.	TALKING SONG 00:29
	11.	WEDDING SONG 04:54

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ZHUANG & YAO BRONZE DRUMS 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.

Tracks 1 to 5 are ZHUANG

1 3 TONG GU (BRONZE DRUM) celebration tune performed 6 men :
HUANG ZHONG XIAN 70 years old man and LANG ZI QIU 70 years old man play a small bronze drum, LANG SHI DU 68 years old and HUANG ZHING QIU 80 years old play a small bronze, HUANG ZHONG MIN 60 years old man and HUANG ZHONG LIANG 72 years old man play a large bronze drum in TING JIU village, BAMA

2 9 BIT RYTHM a large drum, a pair of cymbals, a large flat gong and a small flat gong performed by 4 men : XIANG GUANG MENG 52 years old man, XIANG BAO SHAN 65 years old man, XIAN GUANG SHEN 48 years old, XIANG LAN HUA 53 years old man, in GULAN village, NANDAN

3 4 TONG GU (BRONZE DRUM) performed by same 4 men as previous track in GULAN village, NANDAN

4 GULAN style 4 TONG GU (BRONZE DRUM) and a large DRUM in GULAN village, NANDAN

5 7 women each playing a large DRUM while dancing around the drum in GULAN village, NANDAN

Tracks 6 to are BAIKU YAO (white trousers YAO) in HUAI LI village, NANDAN

6 TONG GU (BRONZE DRUM) Li JI SHENG 52 years old man hit the bronze drum and LI MIN QING 54 years old man moves a wooden barrel in and out of the hollow part of the bronze drum

7 BUFFALO HORN performed by HE FU BIN

8 TONG GU (BRONZE DRUM)

9 LALI reed instrument played by LI SHAO MIN

10 Talking song by LI LONG FANG 38 years old man

11 Wedding song by LI LONG FANG 38 years old man

RECORDED BY SHI TANDING in GUANXI, CHINA
DECEMBER 2017, JANUARY 2018

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released January 3, 2018

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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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