This Blog is a collection of my recordings from travelling around Asia

This Blog is a collection of my recordings and collectings from travelling around Asia...
expect lots of obscure instruments, strange sounds, electric and acoustic instruments, obscure records and tapes, and any other sounds i find on the road.
Please be Patient, as the site is very content heavy, the Soundcloud streams are a bit slow to load...

Sunday, March 25, 2012

BKK Vinyl, the final load

26. Here's a working version of #26, a nice funky jam from Isan with a real nice keyboard solo...


29. Sick Phin intro to some chilled out temple morlam with dramatic strings and beautiful vocals...


30.Luk-Thung with sweet horns and hand drums, male vocals something about ducks and chickens in the vocals...


31.Beautiful Kaen based temple piece, heartfelt male vocals, Kaen, hand-drums and Ching....


32. Chilled out disco track, female vocals, Killer keyboard solo...


33.Indian groove Isan tune, sweet percussion and sentimental crooning...


34. From the Indian groove to the Latin feel, so many lines of influence in Thai music... cowbell driven Luk-Thung...


35. Label-less (test pressing?) full ensemble temple Morlam, Phin, Kaen, hand drums, cowbell, cymbals, enthusiastic male and female vocals.... hypnotic percussion on side one...poor condition/poor production.



36. Two nice morlam sides, vicious horns, super wet guitar parts, and great male vocals...



37. Awesome percusion and electric organ intro, rolling into nice keys and ching, with nice male vocals...


38. Energetic funkified Isan style track... horns, keys, cowbell, gnarly bass, sweet guitar licks, righteous percussion....


39. Flute, Chorus vocals, xylo, hand drums, New Year song....

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

BKK Vinyl, the Third Batch.

21. Some really nice temple music, super traditional stuff, some nice Xylo, and raw male vocals, trance-y goodness, with obligatory horn ending... Rare Japanese press from the 70s, part of a special series of Japanese presses of traditional thai music under the name "Crown Records"

22.An early funky Isan track (Luk-Thung I suppose). Nice keys, hand drums and Ching. A bit of a beat record, in some of the worst shape of anything i picked up this time...

23. Super funky/disco intro, and pretty killer horns, nice breaks throughout, nice keys on the end...

24. Cowbell driven Luk-Thung, nice male vocals and horns...

25. Strange semi-traditional track with chorus vocals...

26. Due to Technical difficulties (read: Soundcloud)#26, which is an awesome grooveful track is coming on the next update.
27.Nice Keyboard based track with some bouncy spoken vocals...

28.Super groovin' electric organ track...

More still to come, a bit of slow going on Cambodian internet...

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