Label: Sub Rosa

今回も大変貴重な記録を音盤化!!Sublime Frequenciesの諸作で知られ、主に少数民族の音楽コレクションを行い、それだけではなく音響作家としてミックス、加工のセンスもピカイチなLaurent Jeanneauの人気プロジェクトKink Gong。中国雲南省大理市を拠点に活動していた時期"2006~2012年"に掛けて行った録音を纏めたもので、国内に多く居住する民族集団ミャオ族による笙を使った複数人での演奏や、結婚式のダンス現場、ラブソング、また非常に珍しいストリングス系の民族楽器など、Kink Gongらしい硬派なドキュメント性も強く感じられる一枚。カラーインサート付き。









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The term MIAO is a very ancient Chinese misleading pseudo-ethnic categorisation, what we call the HMONG in western languages, a term recognised by colonial French Indochina. Miao became a generic term which does not reveal the diversity of 38 subgroups or 9 million people, mostly in Southern China Guizhou Province.

China having moved towards the market economy, a large number of minority regions have marketed a commodity available only to them: their ethnicity itself. Ethnic tourism has developed in a big way in China since the 1990s for Chinese and foreign tourists, and is often promoted as the way to create income in those areas for development. I usually stay away from ethnotouristic shows and try to get music which is not a commodity! I was based in Dali. Yunnan. China between 2006 and 2013.