Bang a gong, gamelan, get it on! Superb mix for an intensive listening session.

Thailand is full of colors. And full of sounds. And full of colorful sounds. Included in this hour-long, Thai-oriented (albeit not necessarily Thai-Thai) mix are: Lao-Isan molam; Khmer-Isan kantrum; Lanna folk; Malay dikir; Arabic pop; Chinese pop; Electone instrumentals; hill tribe tunes; a Tai Yai/Shan PSA; a herbal medicine commercial; Islamic adhan; Buddhist prayers; Lao, Khmer and Chinese radio wave snippets; rain and frog ambient; and more. They were discovered through a variety of media, i.e., AM/FM radio, field recording, and cassette tapes, in a variety of cities of Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Isan, as well as the Deep South, as well as downtown and greater Bangkok, over the last one year plus. Overall, a reminder of how deep and wide a sonic landscape exists in Thailand. 
1. Unknown Artist - โห่/ลาวกระทบไม้***
2. Isan Comedy Skit*
3. Unknown Artist - Khene Instrumental*
4. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
5. Tuning Noise*
6. Pattani Central Mosque**
7. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track***
8. Marof - บูแกเน๊าะจูมูรู (Bukae Nok Curumu)***
9. Tuning Noise*
10. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
11. Tuning Noise*; Unknown Artist - เลี้ยว***; Songkhla Morning Market**
12. Lisu Man Playing Fulu** 
13. Unknown Artist - อเอ็นบดาย***
14. Unknown Artist - สาวอีสานรอรัก***
15. Unknown Artist - สาวลาวบ่าวจีน (阿里山的姑娘)***
16. Baby Arabia - บานาอิสกัรดารอาชากร (يا بنات اسكندريّة)***
17. Unknown Artist - โห่***
18. 000+1 - The Busy World***
20. Unknown Artist - กาโระ (Karok)***
21. Khmer Afternoon Show*
22. Namphueng Mueangsurin - เมืองสุรินทร์***
23. Commercial: ต้นกำลังเสือโคร่ง*
24. Munirah - บอดอเตาะเละห้อาญา (Bodo Takleh Hajar)***
25. PSA: MAP Foundation on Myanmar-Thailand Child Trafficking***
26. Tuning Noise*
27. Bumper: CM77 (Witthayu Lanna Chiang Mai)*
28. Bumper: CRI (China Radio International)*
29. Tuning Noise*; Rainfall**
30. Wall of Frog Sounds**; Wat Jet Lin**; Wat Arun**; Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
31. Death Agony of a Longhorn Beetle**
32. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
33. Tuning Noise*; Northern Man Singing in Lanna**; Unknown Artist - Unknown Track**; Unknown Artist - ให้เคอรี่มาส่งได้บ่**; School Sports Day*; ZuZu - อับดุลเลาะห์***; Klong Sabadchai Performance**
34. Waipod Phetsuphan - โห่***

*Radio recording **Field recording ***Cassette tape

Thaisferics - Korean Magpie Tapes [RIAFC 055]

FORTHCOMING ON AKUPHONE - 29.04.2022

As a traveler-without-age, Damo Suzuki has been touring all over space-time. Presenting the light of “instant composing” to new generations, he refers to his makeshift collaborators as sound-carriers. Exactly fifty years after the release of the profoundly iconic Ege Bamyası, we can hear his voice on yet another fantastic album, as in “derived from fantasy.” Manifested from the meeting with Spiritczualic Enhancement Center -- an eight-piece group of self-proclaimed disciples from the CAN University have gathered at Arkaoda (Turkish for “backroom”).

Named after the place in Berlin where it was recorded, this release freewheels down the Autobahn of Consciousness as it swerves along that ancestral road. A witness of this session was quoted calling it “unfiltered, freeform, de-programming music.” The LP’s three volatile tracks called U, Ra, Beya (Japanese for “backroom”) are unity-enhancing non-boolean excerpts from this gathering at the beginning of 2020.

Vocals: Damo Suzuki
Drums: Nicolas Sheikholeslami
Percussion: Faani
Bass: Etkin Çekin
Guitar: Aeladin
Synthesizers: Omri Shmulewitz
Synthesizer: Carl-J. Hoffmann
Synthesizer: Alexander P. Jovanovic

Recorded at Arkaoda, Berlin, 27.02.2020

Production: Nicolas Sheikholeslami
Mastering: Mark Gergis
Art & Design: Axis Mundi (Dima Rabik & Ventral In Golden)

Damo Suzuki & Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - RA

Taken from the album 'TO BEAT' released as CD / Download

COH 'Meguro 10-6' (EMEGO 197)

Last piece on the upcoming Mika Vainio CD on iDEAL entitled "Mannerlaatta". This is the original soundtrack to the Mika Taanila film with the same title. Edition of 500 copies will be available in August 2016, or earlier.

FILM CREDITS:
Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate)

director: Mika Taanila

text: Harry Salmenniemi

English translation: Lola Rogers

music: Mika Vainio

graphic design: Markus Pyörälä

sound design: Olli Huhtanen

producer: Jussi Eerola

production company: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy, Helsinki

MIKA VAINIO - Muisto Palaa Selittämättömästi/A Memory Returning Inexplicably (iDEAL149 CD)

RIAFC 007 - Shortwave Radio Surfing
A mesmerizing mixtape of lo-fi shortwave radio transmissions arrived in our mailbox today from the Italian tape label Artetetra. And it’s a doozy! Produced exclusively for Radio is a Foreign Country, Italian scavengers of obscure exotica, Luigi Monteanni and Matteo Pennesi, explore the surreal world of shortwave radio.
 
“As a mix of functional signals and sounds, incomprehensible codes and intrusive skits, which rely entirely on the technical efficiency and power of the machine as a catalyst, not to mention the capacity and experience of the listener-user to tune into different frequencies, shortwave radio is a continuous adventure into undisclosed territories of sound that literally becomes, at any given moment, an unrevealed foreign country.

Historically, shortwave radios have been used mostly for communication, commercials, propaganda and illegal broadcasting, which is often related to political needs that require evading the normal laws of censorship and intellectual property. Unable to listen uninterrupted, one must hunt continuously for tunes, acrobatically zapping through jungles of white noise and wastelands of abandoned frequencies. Shortwave radio is therefore a kind of shadow box containing part of our sonorous heritage in the form of haunting and recurring uchronia, where different geographies, eras, and technologies fuse in a polymorphic structure of displaced signals and sounds – for example, Guglielmo Marconi and the Cape Verde islands, jungle from the 90s and Latin radio plays from the 70s. If there is anything that illustrates Artetetra's concept of Quinto Mondo, it is without a doubt shortwave radio.” 

But enough bs! Just dive right into this medianic lo-fi mix, carefully crafted by the Italian scavengers of calembouristic sonic paradises.

Shortwave Radio Surfing (RIAFC 007)

Psyched to present our latest guest, Russian native, Atariame. Taking  cues from a wide range of sources, from fragile folk, to ghostly ambience and dreamlike electronica, often placed alongside her aching vocal drones, the 30+ minutes of new original music on her wonderful Métron Mixtape showcase all of these.

Please go check out the full feature and interview on our website: www.metronrecords.com

Bandcamp: atariame.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: @atariame
Artwork: Jack Hardwicke

Métron

Métron Mixtape - 062 - Atariame

A hypnotic mix of field recordings, samples of 78 records, modern exotic pop & electronic music from the visionary collector Fabrice Géry (aka Cheb Gero) from the Paris-based independent label Akuphone. Photo credit: Kink Gong/Laurent Jeanneau.

TRACK LIST
Dharma Shanti Orchestra: Pemungkah 
VA - The Gamelan Of The Walking Warriors : Gamelan Beleganjur and the Music of the Ngaben Funerary Ritual in Bal (AKU1007, 2017)

Kink Gong & Li Daiguo: Cello Zheng Pacoh
Dali China (AKU1019, 2019)

Kiki Hitomi: Gain And Lose
VA - Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (AKU1016, 2019)

Tati Saleh: Sinden Sohor
VA - Malam Minggu : A Saturday Night In Sunda (AKU1012, 2019)

Ko Shin Moon: I-XIII
78 Fragments (AKU1017, 2019)

Tamayugé: Komeito
Baba Yaga (AKU1013, 2019)

Ramuntcho Matta: Au Fond Du Fond
96 (AKU1014, 2019)

Unknown Artist: Lao Lam Saravan
Music of Southern Laos (AKU1009, 2018)

Praed: Embassy Of Embarrassment
Doomsday Survival Kit (AKU1011, 2019)

Ko Shin Moon: Zaffa
Ko Shin Moon (AKU1005, 2017)

Akuphone (RIAFC 020)

Balkan/Romani psych from the former Yugoslavia (1980s-1990s), including the phenomenal Sasa Petrovic, Veseli Romi, Sasa Mutic, and Dehran Raimovic.

TRACKLIST
Medicinka, Sasa Petrovic 
Japanka, Veseli Romi 
Robot, Veseli Romi 
Grcka Ciganska Noc, Veseli Romi
Zov Gitare, Veseli Romi
Brankov Cocek, Veseli Romi
Zoranov Cocek, Veseli Romi
Romska Gajda, Veseli Romi
Miletove Gajde, Veseli Romi
Razijin Cocek, Veseli Romi
Nazin Cocek, Veseli Romi
Moj Mihone, Veseli Romi
Mercedes 500 S Cocek, Veseli Romi
Zoranov Cocek, Veseli Romi
Cocek Tri Puta Tri, Veseli Romi
Ninetov Cocek, Sasa Mutic
Medicinka, Dehran Raimovic 
Imas Malo Para, Veseli Romi & Dzemail

BALKAN PSYCH

Balkan Psych (RIAFC 038)

From the album Nu Vision available October 9, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream: https://smarturl.it/967zgg

Nu Vision

nubo - Nu Vision

Kink Gong (aka Laurent Jeanneau) is known for his collection of surreal soundscapes made from augmented field recordings. With “Take Off DJ”, Kink Gong returns to the airwaves at Radio is a Foreign Country with a uniquely raw and intense exploration of the pakhawaj drum and other rhythms.

RIAFC 040 - Take Off DJ - Kink Gong

Take Off DJ - Kink Gong (RIAFC 040)

re:turn
_Divert one's attention back to.

Piet Keinholz @pietkleinholz spent the last 15 years working in bars in Berlin, listening and DJing. He is also one half of @spatzhabibi together with Captain of None.

This is the 20th session of a series of sessions Recordat is hosting on Radio Alhara every other Sunday from Berlin.

Curated by @captain-of-none

recordat:invites: Piet Kleinholz (spatzhabibi) - #0020

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Akuphone (RIAFC 020)

RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

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