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Haling Vol. 3 - Song 1 MP3

There are a very limited number of locally produced cassettes available, each released as a “volume” or an artists work. Haeng, Haling, Ester and Ataratu are the most well known throughout Waingapu and the surrounding provinces of East Sumba. In many of the recordings, children and animals can be heard in the background during the performance, and often times, the tape will run out in the middle of a song, so the performermer will continue the song from where he left off on the previous side. These are recorded on home ghetto-blasters, and sold/traded in local street markets in Waingapu, Sumba.

Pa’Badong Section 4 MP3

Kenyo Gyi has been a favorite of mine for a number of years, and I was able to find this cassette in Mandalay this past year.  I don’t have the song titles translated yet, but in the meantime, enjoy 2 great tracks from the cassette.

KENYO GYI SONG 1 MP3
KENYO GYI SONG 2 MP3

I am putting the finishing touches on my latest album entitled The Dogherder Tapes Vol. 1, and am planning to release it September 1, 2008. I’m very proud of how it’s turning out, and I’m excited to share it with everyone. It’s an entirely different world than Eau or the Burma disc, and influenced much more by French artists such as Luc Ferrari, Denis Dufour and Bernard Parmegiani. Songs are crafted from a combination of these field recordings, found-sounds on old cassettes, short-wave radio interceptions and new studio recordings which accompany and play along-side the performances. It functions similar to collage albums, but feels entirely different, influenced more by the desire to find a personal and emotional context for the ‘field recording’ genre. My attempt has been to examine the process of pseudo-acculturation- a normalization of exotic and challenging stimuli from exposure to other cultures and lifestyles, while remaining at all times an ‘outsider’ with distinct, albeit challenged perceptual predispositions. In an effort to accomplish this, all field recordings and radio broadcasts are placed within shifting sonic contexts, particularly inspired by Luc Ferrari’s “Les Anecdotiques”. Showcasing an epic segment capturing the unforgettable child-healing evangelists of the Guatemalan highlands, I hope it makes for an exciting and unique listening experience.

Featuring field recordings, radio excerpts and found-sounds from Guatemala, Honduras, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, the album spans 68 minutes.

More information, including the track listing, is in the music section.

PERSIAN TIDES

MALAY SURF

SURFING THE ISLAMIC FREQUENCIES

I don’t know much about rap/hip-hop, but one of the primary focusses in my musical search in Burma was to find urban youth-oriented music, how it’s made, distributed, performed, etc… and how something like a Hip-Hop scene might exist in a city like Yangon or Mandalay. The first rapper everyone pointed me to, both inside and outside the country, is J-Me. A member of the “Myanmar Hip-Hop association”, which supports now over a dozen musicians through their distribution of annual compilations, and functioning for all intents and purposes as a collective and record label.

J-ME SONG 2 MP3

Other members of the MHA include Cyclone, K-Ca$h, Kaung Chit Soe, OnTrack, Bigg-Y and others. Many produce their own music, make their own beats and write their own lyrics, and occasionally some of the artists work with big name DJs such as Thxa Soe and DJ Jay for remixes or new releases. In the spirit of copy songs, I thought it would be appropriate to breath a little life into the idea, and pass along the DJ Thxa Soe and MHA Wu-Tang copy

WU INTERNET MIX MP3 (Wu-Tang copy song)

It’s more common for rappers to release single songs than full albums, making compilations the primary marketing device to introduce rappers to the public. This 2005-dated compilation features 2 songs each by 6 rappers.

K-CA$H SONG 1 MP3

I am hoping to throw a compilation together featuring a number of interesting songs from the Yangon underground electronic/hip-hop scene. Please contact me if you are interested in this project.

CHILDREN MALE DUET
SHAKIRA COPY SONG
MALE COUNTRY SONG
BURMA CLASSIC ROCK
COMMERCIAL

These were recorded March-April 2007 in Yangon, Myanmar. Visit the MUSIC section for links to purchase the disc from Sublime Frequencies.

EL CABLE SUBMARINO MP3
TE LA TENGO QUE DAR MP3

you send it home in a shoe-box.

7 months later, having no idea what to expect, you pop it into a cassette player and hear this:

Papelle MP3