Morlum/ Molam/ Morlam is a genre of music from the Northeast of Thailand (the Isan province), and Laos, that has gone from a traditional folk style to a full-on pop sensation.
Most of these videos are of the pop variety, but have a more classic approach. Many newer morlam songs that I've heard are a little heavy on the canned instrumentation for my liking, whereas this stuff seems to still use a band, with electric guitar, khaen (that 2-foot bamboo mouth organ), drums and more. Electric keyboards are sometimes still used but as a part of the ensemble, rather than as a substitute for the band.
Sublime Frequencies has issued two volumes of this stuff, both of which chronicle the psychedelic fringes of the genre. They come highly recommended.
Anyway, here are some karaoke-ized videos of some great molam tunes. Sing along if you can keep up!
Three concert videos by Honey Sri-Isaan.
1 comments:
The first video is creepy, dubby and great.
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