ANIMIST – Songs of Memory

Songs of Memory

Hilltribes of the Golden Triangle

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1. Karen S'gaw - Courtin Song, accompanied on a te na harp

2:59
2. Hmong Tsai - New Year Song, played on a gheng free-reed pipes

2:15
3. Mien - Courting Song, played on a bao dong ngo, end-blown flute

2:21
4. Lahu Shi (Men's Chorus) - Sacred Chanting

2:25
5. Akha Loimi - Courting Song, played on a ja eu mouth harp

1:12
6. Lisu Shae Shae - Courting Song, played on a djeulae bakka side flute

1:43
7. Karen S'gaw - Kwae free-reed horns

1:33
8. Karen Pwo (Men's Chorus) - Neng Sang Ku, 'thousand verse song'

2:15
9. Karen Pa O - Song of Loneliness

2:37
10. Karen S'gaw (men and women) - Courting Song

2:06
11. Karen Kayaw - Ancestral Song, accompanied on a paplaw tube zither

2:40
12. Hmong Deaw - Song of Longing

2:17
13. Hmong Deaw - Courting Song, played on a traa pulay end-blown flute

2:23
14. Hmong Njua - Song of Loneliness

2:18
15. Hmong Deaw - Courting Song, played on a lei lei folk clarinet

0:44
16. Hmong Deaw - Courting Song, played on a nja mouth harp

1:57
17. Mien - Courting Song

2:11
18. Mien - Courting Song

2:05
19. Mien - Ceremonial Music, performed by a dzat double reed and percussion

2:12
20. Mien - Ancestral Song

2:02
21. Mien - Sacred Chanting to call deities, accompanied by ling bells

1:24
22. Lahu Shi - Courting Song, played on a naw free-reed pipes

1:39
23. Lahu Shi - Courting Song, voice and tae lae kui end-blown flute

1:58
24. Lahu Shi - Courting Song, played on a ahta mouth harp

1:55
25. Lahu She Leh - Courting Song, played on a teu ga lute

2:11
26. Lahu She Leh - Medley of festival and healing music, played on free-reed pipes

1:51
27. Lahu Shi (Men's Chorus) - Sacred Chanting

2:13
28. Akha Ullo - Hunting rite, played on bo dii bamboo beaters

1:46
29. Akha Puli Hulai - Shaman Soul-calling Ritual

2:12
30. Akha Nuqui - Courting Song

2:14
31. Akha Ullo - Funeral Chanting, accompanied on a bau tang beater

1:29
32. Akha Loimi - Ancestral Song

2:14
33. Akha Loimi - Courting Song, played on a leaf

0:46
34. Akha Loimi - Courting Song, accompanied on a dheubam lute

1:55
35. Lisu Shae Shae (man and woman) - New Year Song

1:31
36. Lisu Shae Shae (two women) - Friendship Song

2:37
37. Lisu Nae - Courting Song, played on a pali fulu

1:52
38. Lisu Nae (women) - Ancestral Song, accompanied on a tseubeu

2:14
39. Lisu Shae Shae (men and women) - New Year Festival Dancing, accompanied on a tseubeu

1:54

High in the mountains of the Golden Triangle, where Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar once knew no boundaries, lives a rich multiplicity of traditional peoples. Prominent among them are the Karen, Hmong, Iu Mien, Lahu, Akha, and Lisu, six distinct groups who have maintained their independence, identity, and worldview to a high degree.

Songs of Memory explores the cultural and musical foundation of each of these groups and the vital role music has played throughout the centuries. This work highlights the vast range of celebratory songs, sacred chants, and instrumental music that chart the arc of life, the cycles of seasons, and the wheel of generations.

The Songs of Memory compact disc offers a rich and varied collection of secular and sacred music of the Karen, Hmong, Iu Mien, Lahu, Akha, and Lisu people of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and China. Cycles-of-life pieces are performed through song, leaf, mouth harp, horn, reed pipes, side flute, end flute, folk clarinet, lute, harp, zither, and bamboo beaters. Ritual chants and ceremonial instruments—shawm, drum, gong, cymbals, bell, and bamboo beater—unfold during sacred observances.

This CD is exclusively part of the book 'Songs of Memory' by Victoria Vorreiter, published March 2009. The CD contains 78 minutes of recordings.

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