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...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

More Vinyl from BKK

Some selections from my most recent diggings in Bangkok
40. Sunstar ST 029- Two fine examples of early 1970s Isan Music, Side Two is a really nice, almost Ethiopian sounding groove featuring horns, piano and some serious crooning...



41. Some real impassioned male vocals on this track, not to mention the sick nasty hand percussion/bass groove...

 
42. Early Isan tunes, Probably from the early 60s, rare printed cover, sweet plodding Luk-Thung track... Sunstar ST-004



43. Really Amazing Morlam goodies. Track one starts of with an extended and beautiful Kaen and vocal duet, and goes into some deeply gooving classic full band Morlam with some killer Phin and really nice Ching accents...  Track two is much more funkified. With the addition of some super funky guitar playing, a horn section, and a  seriously funky drummer...


44. A fun Thai cover of The Champs 1958 hit, Tequila, featuring horns and reworked vocals... B side is a nice example of BKK based popular music in the 70s, lots of horns and dynamic female vocals.



Stay tuned, in the process of ripping some killer Isan full lengths... Up by the weekend...

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Train Market Drum Jam

My dear listeners, sorry for the dearth of postings in recent months, have been rambling around Cambodia, and unfortunately, while there is plenty of music around, and I've invested plenty of hours listening to dusty tapes in markets all over, I haven't come across anything worth sharing...
Not to say it doesn't exist, just that the gems are not as readily available as they are in Thailand...
Setting up shop in Cambodia soon... Been studying, and will continue to learn Khmer, and will continue digging for recorded material, as well as interesting rural musicians...
Expect tasty Cambodian tunes somewhere down the line.
In the meantime though, enjoy this video of one of my closest friends, and excellent drummer Colin Fahrner (featured earlier in this very blog), playing at the Train Market in Bangkok with some killer percussionists from the Tiger & Maekong Drum Shop
Also coming very soon is more Vinyl rips of fresh scores in BKK... so stay tuned much love...

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