{"product_id":"mien-yao-various-mien-yao-various-vinyl-record-843563134108","title":"Mien (yao) \/ Various - Mien (yao) \/ Various - Vinyl Record","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. Includes insert. Other-worldly Canon singing from Mien (Yao) hill tribes in China, Vietnam, and Laos. Raw, ethereal, and cosmic - for fans of Bulgarian choir and Javanese Court Gamelan \u0026amp; Sundanese styles of vocal ascension. Although their name comes from a pejorative Chinese expression that means \"dog\" or \"savage\" - stemming from a legend that they were founded by a dog who saved the life of the daughter of a Chinese emperor and thus was rewarded with her hand in marriage - the largest branch of the Yao minority call themselves Mien, which means simply \"people\". They number 4 million and are spread over the southern Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and also migrated to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand over the last centuries. Part of the Miao-Yao (Hmong Mien) group of the Sino-Tibetan ethnolinguistic family, they have many subgroups, usually defined according to colors of their traditional clothes. Recorded and produced in the field by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong).","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49214747574514,"sku":"SBLF117.1","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/3946589-2680695.jpg?v=1778915333","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/mien-yao-various-mien-yao-various-vinyl-record-843563134108","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}