Tampuan Community - Love Song

The Tampuan are an ethnic population indigenous to the province of Ratanakiri, in Northeastern Cambodia. There are approximately 30,000 Tampuan people. They have their own language and many of the elders continue to follow animist beliefs.
This footage has been taken at Sel village, few kilometres north of Yeak Loam Lake.
Maes Heurn is singing a Tampuan love song and he is accompagnied by an instrument called Kong Rang Nong. This 9 stings instrument is popular in the ethnic groups of north-esatern Cambodia. The body is made by a cylindrical bamboo which holds the strings from one extremity (used as a bridge). The strings are tunes thanks to the wood sticks (mechanics). The resonance chamber is made by a dry gourd.
Many thanks to The Tampuan Community especially Maes Heurn and Ven Churk for their invitation, Oum Rotanak Oudom and Bao Vutha.
Image by Oum Rotanak Oudom and Julien Hairon.
Sound by Julien Hairon.
Edited by Les Cartes Postales Sonores.
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[@junichiusui3809]

Thanks for uploading this. Similar to Jrai, Bana in Vietnam

[@kyaumrungthung2390]

They are the same people,they live in Cambodia alway to Central highland Vietnam also in Laos too those land belong to them , they are just like Native America, aboriginal Australia

[@junichiusui3809]

@@kyaumrungthung2390 I have exactly same opinion with you, they are Austroasiac (Mon Khmer) language speaker