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01. Va - Wu Chu Aci (Rice Transplanting Song)
02. Va - Azha Tse (Song To Gather Food For The Pigs)
03. Va - Tudza (Instrumental With Choir At The End)
04. Va - Sha Tsi Gu (Nostalgic Song About Getting Old)
05. Va - Bia Tsa Tsa (Song Of The Bee)
06. Va - Iyu Gu (Responding Courting Song In The Mountain)
ARTIST
TITLE
Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SF 123LP SF 123LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/29/2023

Mystic choral beauty drifting far into the outer cosmos, this other worldly traditional music ensemble creates a contemporary-sounding avant-garde vocal fusion combined with strange instrumental accompaniment. The HANI are linguistically derived from the YI branch of the Tibeto-Burmese and number a million and a half in the southern part of Yunnan province in China above Laos and Vietnam where smaller Hani communities also live. As with many other ethnic groups of the area, an original traditional singing pattern is used with each singer adapting the words to the context. The choir that gathers all singers at the same time is considered to be a very unique style of vocal polyphony or heterophony. The cascading, mournful feel of this music is powerfully transcendent and you've never heard anything like it. Many of these songs express intimate strong emotions that bring tears to the performers while they are singing. Instruments used by the ensemble include the BABI (single tree leaf) and MEPA (rolled up tree leaf in a shape of a horn or mirliton), a CHIWO (3-stringed bowed instrument), a LABI (6-holed bamboo flute), a LAHE (3-stringed small lute) and a MEBA (vertical reed instrument). All tracks featuring singers and musicians from the Hani tribe in Yunnan China. Recorded by Laurent Jeanneau in 2011, this Limited-Edition vinyl LP includes a two-sided insert with photos, liner notes, and names of all the vocalists and accompanying musicians.