Kink Gong

 
Laurent Jeanneau, a French musician living between China and Berlin, has been producing since 1999 under the alias Kink Gong recordings of ethnic minority music mostly in South-East Asia, but also experimental soundscapes based on these recomposed recordings. His records have been released by Sublime Frequencies, Discrepant, Atavistic, Pptstembogen, Akuphone, Loup, Artetetra, etc.

(external link : kinkgong.net)
 
 Kink Gong - Funeral Gongs Ceremonies in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
2024
Sub Rosa
Those recordings of Gongs Orchestras were made during Funeral Ceremonies in two Kung villages and one Jaraï village in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong) in 2003 and 2004, at a times when jungle had not been replaced by rubber plantations. Focusing on funeral's ceremonies, those hypnotics pieces are intense and haunting harmonics sonic experiments.
 Kink Gong - Tanzania 2 (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
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.


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