Jah No Dead Riddim

Can I Add The Flour?

This song was born from my love of stormy weather. Rather than a dramatic piece, this represents the tranquility I get from rain and lightning.

Storm

ARTIST: MARK GERGIS
TITLE: Radio Vietnam
LABEL: Sublime Frequencies
CAT#: SF 095CD
RELEASE: February 3, 2013

Radio is an audio compass; the radio antennae, a divining rod. Positioned anywhere, it opens an exclusive window directly into the location in which it sits. Signals received on the medium wave (AM) and FM bands reveal programming intended for a local population by governmental, independent, pirate, or corporate media broadcasters. Anything from low-powered ethnic minority transmissions, high-powered westernized pop stations, and omnipresent state-run radio can be found on these bands. Shortwave bands expand the breadth and scope, pulling in regional and international receptions. Everything received factors into the experience. Music, news, talk shows, advertisements, station IDs, cross-phased interference, errant or intentional static-generated sounds, distant detritus, and random broadcast anomalies all become equally relevant. This disc continues the Sublime Frequencies locale-specific radio collage series with Vietnamese radio recordings culled and assembled from signals received in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City between December 2013 and November 2014. Inside the 70-minute program are moments of outstanding folkloric, traditional, and pop music, including performances on the electric guitar and the dan bau (a one-stringed guitar-like instrument), eclectic Vietnamese folk and rock stylings, dramatic effects-laden radio theater and musical segues, new wave pop forays, traditional percussion and vocal chants, news segments, dynamic radio bumpers, jingles and advertisements, comedic interludes, phoned-in karaoke sing-a-longs, English-language programming, early-morning exercise regimens, and coded messages from the outer ether. The grand total sum of these radio recordings doesn't aim to present a certified ethnographic study of contemporary Vietnam. Rather, the material here aims to distill and replicate the excitement, engagement, and discovery gained during heavy exposure to Vietnamese broadcasts over an eleven-month period during the teenage years of the twenty-first century. CD comes in a beautiful digipak with full color images, a booklet, and liner notes by <b>Mark Gergis</b>, who recorded, compiled, sequenced, and produced the project for Sublime Frequencies on location in Vietnam.

01. Induction Temperature (5:02)
02. Home Village Identity Event (5:50)
03. Morning Exercise in the Coded Ether (5:29)
04. America Lost the Vietnam War (6:55)
05. Medium Wave Youth Choral and String (5:48)
06. Hit Zones (5:18)
07. Population Control and the Origins of the Legend of Cam Huong (5:59)
08. Message to the Age of Twenty (7:19)
09. Mun Mun - Doctor of Ethnicities (5:36)
10. Phát Sóng Tổng Hợp (5:49)
11. Triumph and Folklore in the Year of the Horse (6:55)
12. Xin Chao Immortal (5:16)

- Sublime Frequencies presents Radio Vietnam, a 70-minute overview of the diversity and extreme brilliance of Vietnamese radio.
- Includes outstanding examples of Vietnamese folkloric, traditional, and pop music, radio theater, ads, jingles, bumpers, and various anomalies in another insanely entertaining and provocative Sublime Frequencies radio collage.
- Recorded, compiled, sequenced, and produced by Mark Gergis on location in Vietnam between December 2013 and November 2014.
- CD presented in a beautiful Digipak with full-color images, a booklet, and liner notes by Gergis.


Jah No Dead Riddim

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