Gong Culture of Southeast Asia: Ede (Vietnam)

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1.	welcome song 01:11	info
2.	a folk song 03:58	info
3.	welcome song (come together) 03:51	info
4.	a melody for women dance 01:35	info
5.	a song before the buffalo sacrifice 01:26	info
6.	hail 02:39	info
7.	pinwheel 02:47	info
8.	hail2 04:47	info
9.	bring the long bench to the village’s house 03:46	info

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The Ede groups live mainly in Tay Nguyen, the central highlands of Vietnam. Gongs are one of the most valuable instruments for Ede people. Each player strokes the back or front of the flat gong by a wooden stick aggressively, to create unique rhythmic patterns. However, for this recording, some of the tracks instead of using Gong as instruments, Bamboo are being used instead. Bamboo instruments such as Cing Kram are played by bamboo-made mallets/sticks. For Ede people, they usually practice with the Cing Kram first, and after they play the gong as the gong is more a sacred symbol and instrument. So, these bamboo instruments are used for twheir practices and they literally call it as “bamboo-gongs.”

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released November 15, 2017

1_Cing ngan – đón khách – welcome song
2_Wak way - cúng bến nước – Worship water station
3_Hơk hơk – mừng lúa mới – Celebrate new rice season
4_Bac bar – Tiễn đưa linh hồn – Funeral song (farewell the dead people’s spirit)
5_Puk kuk – Song for dead man.
6_Puot m’die – Tuốt lúa – Threshing
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Leaders of Gong Ensemble: Ama Pur / Y Cel Niê:
Field Recording: Yasuhiro Morinaga
Translation: Phuong Cao
Design: Jeroen Wille
Mastering: Gok Sound
Production: Kingdom of Archipelago
Production Support: S.E.A. Sound / Japan Foundation Asia Center
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Date: 23 May 2017 / 29 August 2017
Location: Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam

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