Thread: Isaan songs

Originally Posted by Simon43

MA in Thai Culture

How many hotels did you have to build to get that then?


Anyway - TRAGEDY!

I bought the auction lot from a very prestigious auction house. If you are a muso as I am, going to one of their sales is like harry going to a Filipino old folks home - utter mouth drooling heart racing porno. However... when i paid my £6.33 for the lot (including taxes and fees ) the angklung set were there, along with a bamboo flute (not that sort!) but no tossing Kheen! Some bugger had knicked the bloody thing, or more likely it they thought it was some dodgy bits of bamboo and tossed it away. most distressed. To make matters worse, the 12 inch bamboo has a slit in it as well and make a thud sound rather than a wooding xylophoinc ring. They gave me a fiver back though which is scant compensation for the millions I would have made as a Mor Lam super star!

Originally Posted by Norton

Same here. Roiet was once part of the Lao kingdom. Isaan is a mish mash of several languages.

You might enjoy this then. I thought it was fascinating.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

You might enjoy this then. I thought it was fascinating.

Nice. I do enjoy Asian history. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Norton

We reside within the Kingdom of Ayutthaya.

AKA Central Thailand.

That's Johnny Lao. Miss fish has some of his DVDs.
One particularly funny video starts with him jiving down the road with a boom box on his shoulder.
The song is basically about him being confused by the different accents spoken in different regions in Lao.

I'd pull it up but am away from home and thus access to post the video. It's a hoot though, worth a look if you're bored off your rocker.

I saw a couple of real Yamaha acoustic guitars yesterday at the shop I bought a guitar at last year. 185usd so pretty reasonable. They had no such products last year so I have something else. They had Yamaha string as well. Don't sound too bad either.

I was giving the niece lessons last night. The nephew can play some great stuff. It runs in the family I guess.

I thinks I'll try and play akqualung later. haha.

fish

Whats the name of the mor lam guitar type thing they use? Well its not a guitar more like a bulbous banjo with long fingernail on the head.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

That string instrument you asked about is the phin, as in sao seng phin, lady with voice like phin- JIntara

Ahh ha.


So Jeff whats the ones you are on about then?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Whats the name of the mor lam guitar type thing they use? Well its not a guitar more like a bulbous banjo with long fingernail on the head.

Pin/Peen - พิณ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1n1AkWXlxw

Originally Posted by Neverna

Pin/Peen - พิณ

Check out this dudes fingers. Its like watching a preying mantis flex its legs.


Anyone got a Pin Peen Phin? I would imagine that if you are not too shabby in the guitar department it wouldn't be that challenging.

Are they using one of the strings as a drone?

The phin is tuned exactly like a mountain dulcimer. It normally has the nearest string for melody and the other two as drones but , as with a dulcimer, other combinations are possible.

Oops, this is not the what you'd rather be listening to right now thread. But I believe this may have been these girls first exposure.

They got a kick out of Sammy Davis doing Mr Bo Jangles. I always did like that one myself.

Just like Purple Rain, Stairway has been ruined for me by endless nights hearing it being mauled and sabotaged by a range of Thai and Flipper bands who ALL have these two songs on their play list.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

You might enjoy this then. I thought it was fascinating.

Thanks for the history map. I don't suppose you know who is playing the background music?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Thanks for the history map. I don't suppose you know who is playing the background music?

Jean-Michel Jarre

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Jean-Michel Jarre

What about the title of the piece?

Jean-Michel Jarre

Je ne sais pas parce que je l'ai inventé

Kevin MacLeod ~ Cambodian Odyssey

^Cocky but cute, thanks.

this one makes me feel good

gotta smile - rappin' on the turntable/ washing da dishes

Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz

gotta smile - rappin' on the turntable/ washing da dishes

Know this well.
Good one.

garage isaan rock - gear change at 3mins

There used to be a couple of buskers on Asoke, a geezer with a drum and another with the guitar thing, playing away. That guy had some speed

Not these guys. But similar.