Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China, by Various Artists

Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China

by Various Artists

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1.	SUMI YEINYO (HANI CRYING SONG) 03:58	buy track
2.	Pambie (Nuosu Language) Or Sixian (Chinese Language) Nuosu (Yi) 03:35	buy track
3.	Song On The Origin Of The World (Kai Tian Pi Di) 04:17	buy track
4.	Noitiey 04:44	buy track
5.	Do DJui Atsei 12:51	buy track
6.	Wu Bulang Theravada Buddhist Drum Ensemble 03:47	buy track
7.	Gu Tong Yue Wu 01:03	buy track
8.	Pumi Song 01:10	buy track
9.	Responded Love Song 02:32	buy track
10.	Love Song 02:35	buy track
11.	Dongliang 03:16	buy track
12.	Amukadela 03:45	buy track
13.	Isong (Nisu Language) Or Sixian (Chinese Language) 08:58	buy track
14.	Calling Back The Soul (Chuei) 01:32	buy track
15.	Wedding Song 05:43	buy track
16.	Niu Tui Qin 05:05	buy track
17.	Chang Fo Ji 00:59	buy track

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The 5th Sublime Frequencies volume in Laurent Jeanneau’s amazing documentation of vanishing indigenous music of the rural Asian frontiers, this CD focuses on ethnic minority groups of Southern China. Presented here are 17 tracks of supremely infectious vocals and folkloric instrumentals played on a wide variety of local traditional instruments. The centerpiece of this collection is the 13 minute Do Djui Atsei (track 5), an absolutely epic male and female group choral vocal piece which is improvised as a song of intimate personal emotions that brings tears to the performers as they are singing together. Jeanneau has spent many years traversing the hills and valleys of Southeast Asia and China, and he has captured a dizzying array of folk music, much of which has never been documented before. He is perhaps the most committed and accomplished procurer of rare and threatened music from the region and seems more focused than ever as he states in his liner notes for this release: “In China, by the end of the 1950s, 400 ethnic groups registered to be counted in the census. There might be 300 remaining groups nowadays. I was facing an incredible amount of potential musicians. Now after 6 years spent in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, I have recorded 55 CDs of raw stuff. This Sublime Frequencies product is a compilation from those CDs, displaying the diversity I was able to find between 2006 and 2012, and I’m not finished....”

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released November 21, 2010

1, 5 & 12 recorded in Azhahe, Honghe, Yunnan, China in February 2011.
2 recorded in Xichang, Da Liangshan, Sichuan, China in September 2010.
3 recorded in Yao Zhai, Honghe, Yunnan, China in March 2009.
4 recorded in Xue Gua Chong, Sheping, Yunnan, China in February 2011.
6 recorded in Da Bang Xie, Shuangjiang, Lincang, Yunnan, China in October 2011.
7 recorded in Banyang, Dehong, Yunnan, China in December 2011.
8 recorded in October 2006.
9 recorded in Wuqi, Dali, Yunnan, China in February 2010
10 recorded in Zhaoxin, Liping, Guizhou, China in April 2002.
11 recorded in Biasha, Congjang, Guizhou, China in March 2012.
13 & 14 recorded in Xiao Chong Xiang, Sheping, Yunnan, China in February 2011.
15 recorded in Ongding, Cang Yuan, Lincang, Yunnan, China in April 2010.
16 recorded in Ananjie, Shuangjiang, Lincang, Yunnan, China in October 2011.
17: no infos

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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