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4/28/2016

MORE LUK THUNG ON saobaoesan.blogspot.com

Today it's time to get the tape player back on duty and rewind us back in time with a legend from the 80's. One of those great talents able to perform brilliantly in both luk thung and molam: miss Yenjit Porntawi...
read on  http://saobaoesan.blogspot.com/ 

4/24/2016

ONE NIGHT IN ESAN (MOLAM SING)

ONE NIGHT IN ESAN (molam sing)

Nowadays, molam sing is the leading form of modern molam (the most popular singers perform in Bangkok and in some provinces outside of Esan and even sometimes in Laos). The bands play "regular concerts" as well as shows during temple fairs or cultural and religious festivities...
read on:

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4/17/2016

RAKHANGTHONG (MOLAM CONCERT)

It's the end of the Songkran holidays, in every Esan provinces there have been some molam sing concerts every nights. Today's tape takes us back in time in the 80's. If now lam sing is all the rage at the time of the recording of this tape it's still lam phloen that brings people to dance. Even some "local bands" can play in front of thousands on week-ends or during holidays. This post is the first of a serie of 3 posts on the evolution of modern molam concerts, it will be followed by some early lam sing and a some exerpts from recent performances...

4/15/2016

RECORDS SHOPPING IN BANGKOK

As today it's record store day I spent some time to put up a little list of shops you should visit if you plan to visit Thailand. If you ever bough some re-editions or compilations of Esan music you will soon notice that those cd or vinyls you bough in your home country where just 10 times more expensive than the real deal and that unlike what you can read online or in magazines it's not at all forgotten or hard to find music. Many Esan people are proud of their cultural heritage and if you can find those records you can also ear molam and luk thung Esan everywhere in the streets of Bangkok.

READ IT ON http://saobaoesan.blogspot.com/ 

 

4/05/2016

BACK ONLINE!

After leaving this place without any new posts for a while, I finally took the time to get back online. I spend most of my time during the last 3 years dancing molam and hunting for hundreds of Esan music tapes of all kinds... I guess it's time to ear some of those!
SOUND ABOUT ESAN