Artist : VA
Title : Luk Thung (Classic & Obscure 78s From The Thai Countryside)
Genre : Ethnic
Year : 2011
Date : 04/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 14
Label : Parlortone
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 41:01 min
Size : 67,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.suraphon sambatcharoen - suai ching 03:09
nong (truly beautiful girl)
02.chan chainat - ban na pha suk 02:56
(happy farmhouse)
03.aniao t.t.t. - utthayan dok bia 02:42
(garden of debt)
04.namphueng boribun - nak kamphra 03:00
(orphan monk)
05.suchat thianthong - nam to nang loi 03:14
(nang loi waterfall)
06.narong namchai - pha hom hua chai 02:59
(blanket for the heart)
07.phloen phromdaen - ruedu haeng 02:19
khwam rak (season of love)
08.waiphot phetsuphan - boeng ai si 02:53
sao(look at me, girl)
09.tueanchai khwanchit - mia thahan 03:02
phan suek (veteran's wife)
10.noengchai muengsamut - tam nok noi 03:10
(follow the little bird)
11.anucha na tharuea - klom khwan nang 03:03
(comforting my darling)
12.waiphot phetsuphan - chiwit rak nak 03:19
rong (love life of a singer)
13.mitt mueangmaen - phu ying rai 02:13
muean fai (a woman vicious like fire)
14.waiphot phetsuphan - khut thong 03:02
(digging for gold)
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41:01 min
We're not sure what's triggered the
influx of classic Thai Luk Thung music
compilations (ZRMs bamboo-cased 'The
Roots of Thai Funk' and various Sublime
Frequencies, Finders Keepers' and
Subliminal Sounds volumes), but it's
certainly opened our ears to a
beautifully altered mode of music that
seems famiiar, yet feels so exotic and
alien. The latest appears on
Parlortone's ace Dust-To-Dgital series,
preserving "fourteen funky, down-home
songs from the 1960s, the Golden Age of
Thai Country Music" accompanied by
extensive, full colour fold-out
sleevenotes. To give a glib overview of
the sound, it's essentially a syncretic
form of folk-pop previously played
extensively in one of the most
Westernised countries in Asia absorbing
elements of imported pop and spicing it
to local tastes with traditional Thai
melodies and distinctive accents. There
are 14 tracks included here, each a
precious example of soul-tugging,
grassroots music from a fascinating and
endearing part of the world.