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« on: 18:13:03, 01-10-2007 »
I've been talking about Burma on the News and Current affairs board and I was just wondering if anyone knew any indigenous Burmese music. I've never heard any and after a quick look on Amazon, these two are the best with which I could come up:





The other recordings here also look interesting, but those two, being a mixture of things, caught my eye more persuasively. The Magic Drum Circle also looks fascinating. Anyone heard it?
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« Reply #1 on: 18:42:15, 01-10-2007 »
Inspired by your post I have sought out clips of the Burmese pianist U Ko Ko, but all I found was an article about him. Others may have more luck. Note that he's not really playing the piano, but using it as an adaptee to Burmese playing styles. Fascinating reading; but also fascinating music: wish I had something for you to hear.


http://www.umbc.edu/eol/garfias/burma1.html
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« Reply #2 on: 22:15:48, 02-10-2007 »
CD that looks like a fascinating article. I'll have to come back to it when I'm not sat cross-legged on the floor with one eye shut (should really take my contact lenses out but my glasses are in Durham) listening to Orfeo.

Just had a quick look on RILM for some literature on the subject and there seems to be quite a lot. Definitely something I'll have to read up on at a later date (after all, it looks like I'm going to be teaching Ethnomusicology in January (gulp but hooray!)).

In case you missed it, have a quote from time_is_now from the 'original' Burma thread:
Quote from: time_is_now on 18:19:00, 01-10-2007
I was about to post an image of the Airmail label's contribution, but I see you've posted it yourself on another thread before I got round to googling images for it. Funnily enough, I was looking at the thing itself just half an hour ago and wondering whether I ought to give it a try. I haven't done so, yet, but Airmails are generally not unreliable, if rather skimpily annotated, musical tour guides.

Stunningly beautiful cover. I must find out what that is - some temple?
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« Reply #3 on: 09:14:22, 03-10-2007 »
There's some (free) Burmese music on this http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/index.htm should you want to hear without having to buy  Wink

Other Asian stuff too, as the URL suggests.
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