{"product_id":"kink-gong-zomia-vol-1","title":"Kink Gong - ZOMIA  Vol1","description":"Genre: Exotica\/ Outer National\/ Experimental\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP \u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: CREP85 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB\/C: 5055869562683 \u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 16th April 2021 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKink Gong is back with his unique take and re-interpretation of the music he’s been recording and documenting for years in the South East Asian highlands. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZomia Vol.1 takes the conceptual idea of ZOMIA, proposed by James C Scott in The Art of Not Being Governed, an Anarchist History of Upland South East Asia, to construct its very own mythological soundscape inspired by a semi-utopic region where state rules don’t apply. Zomia might be (almost) gone but Kink Gong is keen keep its spirit alive by releasing a series of albums celebrating the region’s quasi mythological features.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘’Zomia is an idea, a concept that, not so long ago, there were two very distinct worlds in southeast Asia, the valley VS highland\/hinterland, the civilisation VS the primitive, paddy rice VS slash and burn agriculture, Buddhism VS Animism, fixed territory VS movement\/migration, written system VS oral culture, the state VS anarchy, property VS squat, controlled population VS autonomy, bricks VS bamboo and wood and, at my level museumified traditional mainstream music VS real emotions\/songs of devastated lives and\/or gongs ceremonies with buffalo sacrifices, extreme heat in the valleys VS shade in the jungle. I could go on and on but let’s not forget that ZOMIA is disappearing fast, if not altogether already. How many of the people I’ve recorded are still alive?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs you might know, before composing new music from my own ZOMIAN experience (from 2001 to 2014 in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and China) I had to find those musicians, be able to communicate with them, record them as good as I could with very limited finances and gradually release a collection of 160 CDrs. It is very important for me to make sure you to listen to the fantastic original recordings before or after you’ve listened to this experimental reconstruction I called ZOMIA!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExpect more volumes to come, this is my biggest source of inspiration, and the reason why I’ve been involved for years in constructing a mythological experimental musical ZOMIAN soundscape.’’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaurent Jeanneau, Berlin 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePRESS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/sounds-of-zomia-kink-gong-2608153653.html\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklist;\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA1. Khmu Miao Qiang, A2. Bamboo Chicken, A3. Tibet Flaubosax, A4.Key Dingboo, A5. Swamp\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB1. Clear Khmu Miao, B2. Kink Epplay, B3. Tapreu Meutmouan, B4. Jarai 63\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Horizons Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37835383439516,"sku":"CREP85","price":17.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/CREP85.jpg?v=1613797998","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/kink-gong-zomia-vol-1","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}