Son of PM Hey Klong Yao cd

cd
2011/196x
new
Burnin' set of songs named after the flagship song of shadow music. Ever since the ascendancy of Thailand's King Rama IX in the mid 1940s (he's still king, he was born in Brookline, Mass, and he writes pieces for alto sax), the Thai government has been friendly to both music and westernization. So even before the 1960s, Phayong Mukda (careful googling, there's lots of ways to spell it) had tried wedding Thai classical percussion to Latin & big band melodies. As rock & roll instros began to be exported around the world, the genre took it's name after Cliff Richard's Shadows. Mukda downsized his ensembles for contemporary nightclubs, leading with organ & drums rather than horn sections. And so he promoted his new sound as Pocket Music. Mukda died about a year ago, but his influence reached far during his lifetime. Lead keys man Khabuan Mukda became Phayong's adopted son & is responsible for most of the arrangements here. Guitarist Chakkrin Rasana eventually left to play for rival band Johnny Guitar, and drummer Don Sonrabiap would go on to make some serious funk in the 70s. 'Klong Yao' is also the name of a folk music style- a very raucous, bashing, celebratory accompaniment to local fairs & such, usually featuring lots of hollering. But you won't need to know that to experience the raging surf, incredibly slammin' organ, or tuned gongs/chimes here. They go off like a room full of wrestling vibraphones. Tracklisting: PM-Manohraluifai, Son of PM-Hey Klong Yao, Son of PM-Ra Cha Khlong Jhao, Son of PM-Horse Step Dance, Son of PM-Monkla, Son of PM-Graw Taloong, PM-Sad Chatree, PM-Kaektoimor, Son of PM-Long Drum Song, Son of PM-Phoo Yai Lee, Son of PM-Talung Nang Yak, Son of PM-Thoranee Kan Saeng, Son of PM-Chinese Fan Dance, Son of PM-King of Drums.