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.
