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KINK GONG

TANZANIA 2 (DISCREPANT)

KINK GONG - TANZANIA 2 159016
Format:
1 LP
Release:
07.07.2023
Label:
DISCREPANT
Genre:
Independent
Kat.-Nr.:
159016
Barcode:
5065004291255
8 years almost to the day after releasing his unique re-interpretation album of his field recordings made in the late 90's in Tanzania, Kink Gong is back with another volume of bushmen madness.

Here's what Kink Gong aka Laurent Jeanneau has to say about his end of millennium trip: `'My experience in Tanzania is now over 20 years and most of the so called remix was started in Tanzania and left unfinished, then eventually retouched in Vienna, Paris, Shanghai, Kunming, Dali or Vientiane.

20 years later I searched my Tanzanian files and rediscovered unfinished tracks which are being now refreshed on this new record.

Back to the early days of the XXI century, when I lost my health trying to survive with the HADZAs, the last bushmen in northern Tanzania.

In 1999 James Stephenson from NYC invited me to join his Hadzas friends. I would leave the bush to rest in a place with enough food and electricity and start to edit, loop and work on the original recordings, to transform them into organic abstract compositions, the only instrument I had recorded a lot with the Hadzas was the malimba and I bought different malimbas in Arusha to take back with me to Europe, I used either the original recordings or me playing malimbas on some tracks and applied some electronic treatment to it, at that time I used Roland synths for some tracks.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. AMESKI
  • 1.2. EPEME MEN
  • 1.3. MALIMBA 2012
  • 1.4. IRAWK DRUM UNDER THE RAIN
  • 1.5. PILON
  • 1.6. MAKONDE ISLAND
  • 1.7. MALIMBA
  • 1.8. ZEZE