MUSIQUE DES HMONG DU LAOS
Cour d'Amour et Culte des Ancêtres
HMONG MUSIC FROM LAOS
Love-songs and Ancestor-rites
Anthologie de la Musique des Peuples, 1981, AMP 8.2911
Before introducing this album I would like to thank you who have visited this blog over the past five years. Yes I started this blog on the 8th of May 2021 a few months before I retire.
I took inspiration from a few brilliant blogs giving me ideas of posting my own records.
So thanks to you all again !
This second-hand album (but in perfect condition) I
bought quite recently is another item from that French label founded by
B. Dupaigne.
Eric Mareschal stayed with Laotian Hmong between
November 1974 and February 1976. The Hmong are now scattered over China,
Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. They were originally from China but migrated
southwards over the last centuries to escape Chinese Han rule. The text
by Mareschal is informative enough about their history.
Most Hmong people left Laos after the takeover by the Communist Pathet Lao in May 1975 and settled in Thailand. In fact only three tracks out of
fifteen were recorded in Laos while the others were recorded in
Thailand. Around 5000 Hmong left for France and French Guyana in 1975.
Singing and mouth organ music predominate; each track is well presented.
Text in French and English.
Although this is fifty years old I think that this kind of field recordings help us to remember that diversity be it human, animal or floral is essential to our survival.
I believe it was Dupaigne's aim to preserve part of this diversity. Mine is to post all the albums by AMP.
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