Monday 5 December 2016

WH1TE ELEPHANTS & G0LDEN DUCKS - ENCHANT1NG MUS1CAL TREASURES FR0M BURMA (1996)

The gorgeous track "Dreaming of Beauty" brings the question of this blog into startling clarity: to what degree is the dream of the thing the thing itself? Regardless, bewildering folk and classical work from Myanmar here. The big surprise is the key role of Hawaiian guitar in Burmese musical tradition; slightly less surprising is the influence of Javanese gamelan. An amazing album courtesy of Shanachie.

Dream it here...

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2 comments:

  1. erasmus5 December 2016 at 18:26

    wow! this, and the previous post today, are both killer! thank you!

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  2. LabLo5 December 2016 at 22:38

    Glad you like them! Cheers.

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