All begin with a dirty minidisc sample of a friend playing on n'goni, this fabulous sounding african lute. Then the beat is soon joined by a warm CS80 pad and some MS20 bleeps.
Traditional flute and vocals samples come from a Lao's tribe recording, the piece was obtained thanks to Vientiane's Laos national library, traditional music archiving project. 
The archiving project came from the sad constat of seeing the old traditional and ritual musicians, selling their unvaluable manufactured instruments to buy guitars and keyboards, as playing traditional music seems has been to the younger generations who will prefer to entertain themselves with pop formated standards.
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