Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam
Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam
表演者: Various Artists
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2007-10-09
唱片数: 1
出版者: Sublime Frequencies
条形码: 0751937314622
专辑简介
This third volume in a series compiled by Laurent Jeanneau from his continual journeys into the more remote tribal areas of Southeast Asia features field recordings of the Giay, Lu, Red Zao, and Black Hmong peoples from North Vietnam. The five selections presented here by the Red Zao are of an unusual vocal style called “Baozoo”. The Baozoo singing technique can either be a responsive song, or canon singing where a lead singer has his or her words repeated with delay by 1, 2 or 3 singers. We’ve never heard anything quite like it before. The instruments used in other selections include Kheng (Bamboo mouth organ), jew’s harp, bamboo sticks with coins, and the Piem Zat (a reed instrument or oboe affiliated with Baozoo singing). Recorded in and around Sapa, this CD includes an extended track list with added information about each track recorded along with insightful liner notes by Laurent Jeanneau.
North Vietnam with its overlapping, angular noises, sounds closer to China. The voices of the North Vietnamese Hmong women slide adroitly up and down, and the kheng bamboo mouth organs wheeze like flat harmoniums. There are love songs and songs of welcome, and, at the end of the disc, a 15-minute solo marathon sung by a Giay who draws out some of her words with a faint, attractive hint of curling rasp. In “Piem Zat”, a Zao man plays a reed instrument that sounds so much like a small set of bagpipes that I had the fleeting impression he was going to segue into “The Skye Boat Song”. There is possibly too much of the kheng, all of it sounding roughly the same to a listener who doesn’t know how to pick out the subtleties in each performance.
曲目
01-Kheng 1
02-Kheng 2
03-Song performed by a Lu woman
04-Chungja
05-Kheng 3
06-Hungao 1
07-Kheng 4
08-Hungao 2
09-Pain Sing
10-Bao zoo 1
11-Bao zoo 2
12-Bao zoo 3
13-Bao zoo 4
14-Piem zat
15-Song performed by a Giay woman