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BOON CHOM and NANG TA - B 1 BIT “protect the forest”

from MUSIC OF NORTHERN LAOS by KINK GONG / AKUPHONE 2018

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1 BIT “protect the forest” 4.14
KHENE a 16 bamboo tubes mouthorgan played by BOON CHOM 63 years old man with a woman NANG TA (in her 40s) singing in BOUAN PHIENG village, LUANG NAMTHA January 2012
The BIT are an estimated 2000 people spread in 7 villages of northern Laos and 1 in Yunnan China.
Protect the forest, don t kill wild animals, the kind of politically correct message introduced and encouraged by Lao government is nevertheless a true adaptation of BIT pattern of song.

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from MUSIC OF NORTHERN LAOS, released September 2, 2018

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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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