1095CD Rough Guide to … Music of Thailand

1095CD The Rough Guide to the Music of Thailand.

Thailand offers some of Asia’s most pulsating sounds – contemporary music abounds within the country, from highly regarded local artists and bands. Record stores are filled with lukthung – the central region ‘country’ music – as well as Thai girl and boy bands competing with their western and Japanese counterparts. However, it’s the sounds of morlam from an area that very few visitors venture to – Isaan, in the northeast – that is the hotbed of Thai music. Morlam, in its modern form, is rhythmically powerful and vocally dynamic and is popular throughout Thailand. All these styles of music and more can be heard on this album, the vast majority available outside Thailand for the first time. World Music Network

Track listing:

• MAN MOTORGAI: Hae Nang Maew
• NAMOIY THAMMALANGKA: Lam Yai Lam Poon
• SURASAK DONCHAI: Phin Solo ‘Transcendental Technique’
• MIKE PIROMPORN: Lerk Dai Lerm Bor Dai
• SIRIPORN AUMPIAPONG: Rang Jai Rai Wan
• THAI ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA: An Elephant’s Swan Song
• CHAWIWAN DAMNOEN: Moo Lam ‘Lam Teai’
• POL PAN LAO: Amazing Isaan
• CHINA DOLLS: Oh Oh Oh
• ANAND JAIDEE: Roop Khao Krapao Aei
• JIEB BENJAPORN: Ma Kor Tho Tai
• FONG NAM: The Nang Hong Suite For Double Piphat Ensemble (excerpt)
• EKACHAI SRIVICHAI: Sieng Soong Wao Sao
• SAO SOMPARN: Katikar Huajai
• KRUSALA: Tam Ha Kujee
• BENJARONG THANAKOSET: So Duang ‘The Sad King’
• SORN SHINCHAI: Sao Noong San
• PAIJIT AKSORNNARONG: Sao Na Sang Fan
• CHAGKACHAN: Pong Lang Ensemble ‘Pong Lang Dance’