Laurent Jeanneau (aka Kink Gong) has spent years recording rare and obscure ethnic music from all over southeast Asia. He also collects video compact discs (VCDs), the most widely available format in Asia for everything from kung fu movies to pop music videos. Laurent recently dug into his VCD collection, most found in the markets of small, rural towns throughout the region, and selected some great Khmu and Lao folk music from Laos for your listening pleasure. All of the songs selected for this mix feature the 16-tube bamboo reed or mouth organ (khene). Listen closely and you’ll hear different singing styles and patterns typical of the country’s two major ethnic groups and geographic zones, the Khmu in the north and the Lao in the south. All of the tracks are raw and intimate, recorded on location, and feature the occasional chorus of crickets and other ambient sounds and noises typical of rural Laos. Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, etc are Khmu, and tracks 2, 4, 6, 8 etc are Lao. 

Check out Kink Gong's bandcamp page here: https://kinkgong.bandcamp.com/

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Laotian Folk Music on VCD (RIAFC065)

i knocked my head yesterday and now I see the spirals
they form in your eyes + spread
they ooze from the follicles of your hair
squirm out of the cracks in the floor

can you see the spirals?
if so you are not alone
i breathe spirals from my lungs
sneeze them from my tomb
oh won't you spiral with me, spiral with me...

originally transmitted on netilradio.com

Silence & Wisdom - Deux Filles
2008 - Transcend
From Small Acorns - Neotropic
To Catch A Tone - Pablo’s Eye
Chai - The Higher Intelligence Agency
The Calling (Loved’Ub Mix) - A Positive Life
Sprinkle - Off and Gone
Mingos - Eritokwa
Amb 7 - Pablo’s Eye
MOLLY & AQUAFINA  - Dean Blunt
Famous Grapes (part 4) - Nate
Part Three - The Threshold HouseBoys Choir
Alice Effekt - Drome
Qawwali - Pinch
Armenian Orientation - Haruomi Hosono
Fluresence - Space Time Continuum
Devotion - Tirzah
Ice - David Motion + Sally Potter
Crystal Clear (Clear, Like an Unmuddied Lake) - The Grid
Gangstaz (Instrumental) - Pinch
Turning In Circles - King Softy
silent kiss - exael

Big Leg's Bits - My Cocoon Is My Tomb [8.10.21]

Immersive & hypnotic, this mixtape features (mostly) manipulated field recordings of obscure sounds & music from Tanzania to Borneo.

Photo credit: Andreas Mass

Exploding Suitcases from Radio Palestine: Sounds of The Eastern Mediterranean (Sublime Frequencies) 
Fade from Air Tapes – Excavation Series (Power Moves Library) 
Izeze (Iwawa) from Echoes of the Unquantized World 01 (Duckfood) 
Chibeu (Mae Hong Son, Thailand) – Lisu Mix – Kink Gong (Discrepant) 
Laos 2000 from Early-Century Sound Recordings – Mark Gergis (Discrepant) 
Dhvāni – Budhaditya Chattopadhyay from Anthology of Exploratory Music from India (Unexplained Sounds Group) 
Excerpt from Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings From Tibet) – Geir Jenssen (Ash International) 
Raft 29 - Honey Hunters – Mike Cooper (Room40) 
A Fistful of Stardust from Archeophony – Raed Yassin (Akuphone) 
Syria 1998 from from Early-Century Sound Recordings – Mark Gergis (Discrepant) 
Excerpt from Volume One – Naujawanan Baidar (Radio Khiyaban) 
Excerpts from Orange Twin Field Works - Volume I – Jeff Mangum (Orange Twin Records) 
Excerpts from Sounds of Urumqi and Under a Dim Crescent Moon, Shirley & Spinoza Radio 
Excerpt from Suling Pereret cassette (Bali 886, Year Unknown) 
Balia – Saprin Ojo Lalove Ensemble (Gugus Gema, 2020) 
Excerpts from Asian Radio Environments, Jesse Paul Miller 
Nadaswaram Tannoy (Amba Vilas Palace, Mysore, India) from A Distant Invitation - Jesse Paul Miller (Sublime Frequencies) 
Titi Mati & Nocturnal Soundscape from Kwangka: Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo – Vincenzo della Ratta (Sublime Frequencies)

Gonzo Ethnomusicology (RIAFC073)

The audio presented here was lifted from a VHS tape posted online, then broadcast during our weekly show on a local LPFM, and recorded from home using a GRUNDIG AM/FM/shortwave radio on the night of SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022. It features the legendary RAFIG "REMISH" HUSEYNOV, the GODFATHER OF AZERBAIJANI ELECTRIC GUITAR, and one of the great GUITAR GODS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, performing a blistering set at a wedding in the town of AGHDAM in 1991. The entire performance, as Ben Wheeler and Anna Harbaugh note on the CAUCASCAPADES BLOG, is an orgy of insane electric guitar ornamentation using trills and bends, as well as some heavy analog delay and overdrive. There are also unpredictable tempo changes and shifts between major and minor 3rds, impromptu exchanges with a clarinetist and accordionist, and some slide guitar using a glass bottle. Remish smokes cigarettes throughout and, at one point, plays with one hand while drinking vodka with the other.

AGHDAM WEDDING – RƏMİŞ (RIAFC094)

"Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969)” by Souma Records is the first part of a selection of Greek and Turkish tsiftetéli – or çiftetelli – songs and instrumentals, some in Greek Rebetiko and Laikó style, others in the oriental folk tradition of Greece and Asia Minor led by Roma musicians.

For Greeks dancing tsiftetéli is a social thing, sometimes performed by couples. During the 60s and 70s in Greece and the US, live Laikó bands and oriental ensembles were often accompanied by a belly dancer, although this was not the case when the style first crept into the Greek repertoire when the repatriated musicians from Asia Minor expressed their pain and loss through this music. Mainly during the 60s the gloomy lyrics disappeared from the tsiftetéli and it morphed into a beguiling dance. Modern belly dancers hardly ever dance to tsiftetéli anymore but prefer instead the typical dance routines (raks sharqi) from the Middle East. The magic of tsiftetéli lies within its hypnotic grooves, intoxicating melodic scales and the extreme musicianship of the performers.
 
The term tsiftetéli derives from the turkish word çifte-telli, which means ‘double-stringed’ (diplóchordo in Greek) and refers to an authentic violin technique (cfr tracks 4,11,16 & 17) of running two strings through the same nut slot of the instrument creating tautophony (two strings playing at the same pitch) or tuning them an octave apart. This spaced-out effect generates a more oriental and sensual feel.

All tracks are recorded from Fred Kramer's (Souma Records, BE) collection of shellac and vinyl records he excavated over the last 10 years in Greece, Egypt and the US.

Tracklist in the comments below. 

Check out more from Souma Records here:: https://soumarecords.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://soundcloud.com/soumarecords

Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969) - Fred Kramer (Souma Records) (RIAFC100)

Golden Ratio Frequencies 171222

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Aufgenommen beim Zepter & Osterinsel Hoffest 2023 bei Ameise am Hochwasserbassin in Hamburg-Hammerbrook

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Elazer - ZEPTER & OSTERINSEL HOFFEST - 09/07/2023

Misonica sent us an hour of far out and trippy club music, ranging from dark tribal sounds to slow trance excursions. 

In her hometown of Vienna, Misonica is an extremely active member of the local scene. She was part of the team behind the Femdex, mix series, workshop and event platform that worked to highlight female identifying DJs and producers. They recently put the project (for the time being) on hold but she can still be found pushing the Vienna scene through the NNNN party series that she runs alongside Bocksrucker, Paul Uhlmann and Samo Zeichen.

Phase Group Mix - Misonica

I've recorded quite a few mixes over the last couple of months and thought I'd start sharing some of them, hoping for it to reach some interested ears. First up is this mix of 70's and 80's Indonesian Pop and Religious music. Deep stuff, taken from records and cassettes. Pop Sunda, Dangdut, Qasidah Modern, Gambus, and Pop Java ..

#1 Indonesian Records & Cassettes: Pop Sunda, Dangdut, Qasidah Modern, Gambus & Pop Java ..

A selection of folk and pop music from Sumatra.

TRACKLIST
1. As-salamu alaykum, Emsi Radio 90.8 FM (Jambi, Sumatra)
2. Traditional saluang, Emsi Radio 90.8 FM (Jambi, Sumatra)
3. RIAFC radio bumper
4. Laku Siginyangnyo, Fetty
5. Unknown track, Asben & Melati
6. Uknown track, Asben & Melati
7. Ratok Dirantau
8. Tak Mau Dimadu, Tanamo’s Group
9. Comedy with Moog, Emsi Radio 90.8 FM (Jambi, Sumatra)
10. Sorry Puss, Emsi Radio 90.8 FM (Jambi, Sumatra)
11. Radio Bumper, Emsi Radio 90.8 FM (Jambi, Sumatra)
12. Milfy-Padi Ampo
13. RIAFC radio bumper. Field recording of traffic. Backing track: Jangga-Wareng, Harry Roesli
14. Lagu Kerinci Lamo, Kasih Gilo
15. Ki Ardasim, Detty Kurnia
16. Kumis, Dewi Ellyana & Angga Prawira
17. Agiah Bana (excerpt), Tiar Ramon feat Fetty
18. Si Jantung Hati, Ade Putra & Ira Maya Sopha (1986)
19. Sarua Jeung Bohong (excerpt), Darso
20. Patam Patam Kulcapi, Bathoe Tarigan (or maybe Yarigan) & Ardi Brena Gurusinga
21. Patam Sarune Feat Kulcapi & Keyboard
22. Gendang pertang - tang ose, sarune feat keyboard

SUMATRA (RIAFC 046)

Radio Sumatra (RIAFC 046)

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