Music from Other Worlds (subtitle: 'listen to an idiot)
Khun Narin - "Chackim" "...so just stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with the bagpipes that only a few cats listen to, and even their relatives don’t buy their records!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, the pretentious know-it-all, frequenting the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy said in that movie... I propose that you listen to some of the most unimaginable things that have come my way over the years. You, listen to an idiot, lose 5 minutes on this—because if you keep listening (reading, watching, eating, sniffing...) to the same things you already know how they are, with no risk, what happens is that your brain simply atrophies.
11) Khun Narin & Electric Phin Band
One fine day, a certain Josh Marcy, a music producer in L.A., stumbled upon a YouTube video like the one you see here. In that video, Khun Narin also performed a cover of "Zombie" by the Cranberries. The group hails from the province of Phetchabun in Thailand and was locally respected and known for performing at parties with impromptu shows. Khun Narin & Electric Phin Band features a constantly rotating line-up of musicians of various ages, from children to elderly men.
Marcy contacted Innovative Leisure Records, who decided to send him to Thailand to find them. After arriving in Thailand, Marcy reached out to Peter Doolan, an American living in Bangkok who was a fan of the group and had contacts with them. Here, our guy recorded an impromptu live session that was released on disc in 2014, followed by II in 2016.
In short, this mix of Thai and Laotian melodies informed by garage music and psychedelic rock is just crazy to me! Some critics (who have had the fortune to listen to them) have pointed out similarities to the music of Konono Nº1 or the Incredible String Band (some even mentioned the Grateful Dead...).
However, they claim to have never listened to all those psychedelic rock groups...
