Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sublime Frequencies Vol 1


Hey, I know that Law & Order marathon seems really appealing right now, but don't worry, I promise to not keep you long. Really, I just need to let the label do the talking;

"An essential collection of unique folk and pop music from the Island of Sumatra, including drone beat pop, jungle folk trance, gypsy hybrid songs, haunting vocal chants, and other beautiful, lost styles, which have yet to be discovered."

"The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia with the equatorial stripe impaling it. There are so many different cultures spread-out on these islands, that it would take several lifetimes to experience them all properly. Within this umbrella of diversity is one of the world's richest and most dazzling sound museums. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the great archipelago. It is a large island approximately the size of California. There are jungles, mountains, swamps, various forms of myths and folklore, hustlers, Padang Food, Tigers, the Durian, dozens of cultures and languages, and more music than you've ever been allowed to hear. The selections on this CD are a combination of droning beat pop, pseudo-gypsy songs, jungle folk trance, and other improbable traditional and hybrid styles heard by only a handful of outsiders. These recordings are from old cassette tapes received as gifts, in trade, or purchased from sources in Sumatra in 1989. Some of the tapes are unmarked with the artists unknown, yet all of them are decaying documents of various sound quality containing some of the most eccentric artifacts ever uncovered from this fascinating island."

ok, that's all.

suffering orbach

p.s. this contains the original "Borungku Si Derita" (I suppose), and it's beautiful.

SUN CITY GIRLS - 'BORUNGKU SI DERITA'

Sun City Girls - Borungku Si Derita

I love this band. I also hate them sometimes, but the love definitely outweighs the negative.

"Smile" sounds like early Pink Floyd, and there's a great version of "Esoterica of Abyssynia".

the more common version is a single 7", but those are for pussies,
so this version is the double 7".

click this