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Vol. 3 in the series of Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma). Many people there believe in ghost spirits called Nats. These spirits are historical figures who met tragic or violent deaths. They are said to possess the power to assist or devastate the lives of those who recognize them. A Pwe is a ceremony held to appease a Nat. The Kadaw is the medium to the Nat, a singer, dancer, storyteller, bringing the audience into a trance while the melodically ornamental and thundering sound of the Nat Pwe orchestra plays on. This is some of the most jarring, intense and maniacal music you can imagine, with the bells, cymbals, and tuned metal bars crashing and spiralling, while the hand drums and Hsaing-Wang circle of rhythm pound the beat.
Label: Sublime Frequencies / SF035
Medium: CD
Music, World Music
, Traditional
, Psychedelic
, Asian
| Price: € 16.00 |
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Cambodia's people, economy, and culture have been 're-mixed' perhaps more than any place on earth for the past 50 years. So it almost seems natural that modern Cambodian record companies have been re-mixing the old classic pop and rock tracks from the pre-Khmer Rouge era, overdubbing drum tracks, and sometimes all instruments leaving only the original vocal in tact. These re-mixes, designed to hold the interest of younger listeners, are the staple for current programming on Phnom Penh's FM radio stations as the AM flagship 'National Radio of Cambodia' remains the only source regularly featuring the original master recordings. Sublime Frequency's concoction of Radio transmissions is a combination of AM/FM samples from the airwaves of Phnom Penh. The older, classic Pop/Rock FM cuts are ALL re-mixed versions while the newer forms/other styles of Cambodian music collected here are not.
Label: Sublime Frequencies / SF020
Medium: CD
Music, World Music
, Collage
, Asian
, Pop
| Price: € 15.00 |
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FM3 (Zhang Jian & Christiaan Virant) is one of China's most progressive sound art groups, who gained bigger fame through their popular little gadget, the (mutated) Buddha Machine. Featuring legendary chinese rock singer/musician Dou Wei. Additional sound input from well-known chinese experimental music icon, Yan Jun.
Label: Lona Records / locd 12
Medium: CD
Music, Electro-Acoustic
, Asian
| Price: € 17.00 |
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Aaron Dilloway (ex Wolf Eyes) recorded the Pran Nath Family in an alley in Kathmandu, Nepal. Giant boas were wriggling around them. A sound grabbing not only snakes in this case.
Label: Hanson / HN133
Medium: CD
Music, World Music
, Field Recordings
, Asian
| Price: € 16.00 |
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Collecting the tracks from tapes he managed to acquire back in 1989 Alan Bishop has come up with a window into a world of pop music rarely heard by those outside of this equatorial island. It's clearly pop - the sounds you hear are very slightly related to sounds you would have heard anywhere else in 1989, but at the same time this is music from a land we have little or no connection to culturally. Just skip to the second track (which was taken from an unmarked tape so has no details) and prepare yourself for a real experience - the saturated and degraded sounds of what once was electro-pop, all cheap synths and jangling guitars. Imagine Selda dubbed to cassette tape again and again then speeded up just a little and you'll have some idea of what to expect - but the truth is in the listening and this simply has to be heard.
Label: Sublime Frequencies / SF001
Medium: CD
Music, World Music
, Folk
, Asian
, Pop
, Exotica
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Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (Volume 2) expands our presentation of the world’s least-known, outstanding musical improbabilities. From the infectious trance beat of Sumatra's Folk Dangdut music, featuring Rabab (Violin) or Saluang (Flute), to the highly-refined and glorious Orkes Gambus (Orchestral Arabic music with Gambus; literally meaning Oud, said to have been brought to the island by Islamic settlers from Yemen, the 18 tracks featured here will instantly convince the listener of the expressive beauty and diversity that Sumatra has contributed to the world music theater. Most of the musicians on this release are 'Minangkabau' or 'Minang'; people who are devout followers of Islam as well as the world's largest Matrilineal society (a Minangkabau child is the descendent of his/her mother, not father). These tracks (chosen from stacks of old cassettes) were recorded from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Label: Sublime Frequencies / SF018
Medium: CD
Music, World Music
, Folk
, Asian
, Pop
, Exotica
| Price: € 16.00 |
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Pei is a Chinese/Taiwanese lady with a fresh approach to electronic composing. Here is a collection of whimsical, intense, sometimes abrasive yet always enjoyable 'sound frescoes' that encompass a wide range of sonic textures and emotional flavors.
Label: Post Concrete / Post 003
Medium: CD
Music, Field Recordings
, Electro-Acoustic
, Asian
| Price: € 9.00 |
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Lucas Abela, aka Justice Yeldham aka the owner of Dual Plover and renowned virtuoso of the glass plate, formed the pick up band Rice Corpse in Beijing (named after the Chinese character for shit, which itself is the combination of the two characters for corpse and rice), a trio of glass, drums and piano. Drummer was Yang Yang whose antics in his own band Mafeisan has given him the reputation of being the craziest exponent of the normally conservative Beijing scene. His ultra loud out and proud personality is in stark contrast to the mild mannered and brutally shy Li Zenghui who agreed to be the pianist. Existing for a limited time and without a common language to interrupt they managed to create these six varied and strangely focused improvisations.
Label: Dual Plover / 666
Medium: CD
Music, Improvisation
, Asian
, Noise
| Price: € 13.00 |
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