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China's rich and diverse musical heritage has been recorded and documented in a stunning, original collection. With twenty albums in the pipeline, this is a highly specialized series with the appeal of perhaps being the closest thing to the 'complete works' of traditional Chinese music. Each album features a different region of the vast territory; an historical snapshot of China's heritage. Due to the cultural privacy China mandates, these are in fact rare, musical gems. This is volume nineteen of a twenty album series, exploring China's rich and diverse musical heritage. It includes ballads and love songs of the Lahu, featuring the gourd mouth organ and Jew's harp; the most famous working song of the Jingpo people, the husking rice tune Yue Lu; mountain and hunting songs of the Jino peoples, played on bamboo ideophones; and excerpts from the Achang opera of spring lantern. Album Tracks 1. Happy Lahus 2. Du Pa Mi Pa, An Ancient Song 3. Meeting at Laodabao Village 4. Song of the New Rice Festival 5. Song of Hunting 6. Duet Love Songs of Lahus 7. Gong Duan 8. Millet Souls 9. Beng Yang 10. Yue Lu 11. Zai Wa 12. Ga 13. Duo Dan 14. Love Song 15. Beautiful Life, a Folk Song 16. Praising My Lover Boy 17. Duet 18. Love Song 19. Love Song 20. Inseparable 21. Work Song 22. Proposal Song 23. Mother, Why Don't You Come Back? 24. Old Song of Kelian 25. Epic, a Song of Zhepama and Zhemima 26. Song of Shu Wei 27. Song of Shu Wei 28. Song of Shu Wei 29. Happy Folk Song, a Song of Ma Lang 30. Carrying Salt, a Song of Ma Lang 31. Song of Spring 32. Song of Spring Ox 33. Song of Tea Harvest 34. Song of the Woluo Festival 35. Song of the Woluo Festival 36. Song of the Woluo Festival
