XINJIANG by KINK GONG / DISCREPANT 2011
For Xinjiang, Laurent based his soundscape around the recordings he made on a 2009 trip to the frontier region of Northern China, Xinjiang. Spreading from Mongolia to Afghanistan, it is the biggest Chinese province. From various locally made recordings, including Kazakh Dongbra jams, Uyghur Dotar riffs and various regional radio interferences, Laurent constructed a melting pot of ethnic related weirdness packed with mind blowing virtuoso recordings.
Simple and beautiful, this music makes people fall into visionary reality.
Released by Discrepant Music ©2011
CAT: CREP 02
released December 1, 2010
The compositions contain unedited acoustic recordings, computer modified parts, sound collages, composed processed DONGBRA (Kazakh 2-stringed plucked instrument) and DUTAR (Uyghur long neck 2-stringed plucked instrument). All recorded on location in the Xinjiang region.
All tracks were recorded on location in the ILI prefecture, Xinjiang province, China by Laurent Jeanneau.
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Under the name KINK GONG you find 2 activities, the 1st one is to record ethnic minority music mostly in south-east Asia, the 2nd is to transform, collage, recompose the original recordings into experimental soundscapes.