Customer Review: Know what you want before you think of ordering this CD. It's a quick tour of festival music from extremely diverse local cultures of Thailand, a kind of Frommer's Guide to Exotic Sounds for Five Minutes a Day. It's not a concert album to sit down and listen to in rapture. I spent several... more info
Customer Review: Tracks 3 and 10 are really lovely. Track 11 is valuable, but the clip is too short (of course, the performance of the Phra Lak Phra Lam takes a couple nights!). This music was recorded before the 1975 revolution, so track 10 is performed by the palace orchestra of Luang Prabang. 3 and 11 are... more info
Customer Review: The music is really good -- I guess partly because I have a good audio system on my computer. My "Hmong ears" are not too well-equipped, but for the most part I can still discern the difference between what I call average and good songs and music, not from a purely Hmong or Western-oriented... more info
Customer Review: [...] this CD, the finest disc of traditional Laotian music I know of.
The disc features Nouthong Phimvilayphone on khene, an instrument composed of two parallel rows of reed pipes, typically 7 to 9 pairs, up to 3.5 meters in length, attached to a wooden mouthpiece. The instrument is described as... more info
Customer Review: This is a great ablum but the preview on it is a different album which was recorded 30 years ago, as compared to this one which is only a few years old. Amazon.com did this on a Kaveret (another Israeli band) album too having the preivew be an ablum that is not the one they are even selling.
Customer Review: Unlike Balinese Gamelan music, which often moves at a frantic pace interweaving different melodies/rhythms, the music here is slower, more meditative. The emsembles are also much smaller and are often only a few performers. For being "field tapes," the recording is of excellent quality. The music is... more info
