Label: Victor – SJ-1010~2
Series: 年度文化庁芸術祭参加 – 55
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album Box Set
Country: Japan
Released: 1980
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Field Recording, Mo Lam, Luk Thung
Stunning, immersive 3LP boxset focusing on the various ethnic minorities of North Western Thailand, capturing their varied folk traditions, rituals and music. With hefty booklet including pics. VERY RARE. (NM)
Our friend Richard says..
''Stunning Japan only 3LP box issue that came out in 1980 and compiles field recordings put down to take during the period of 1974 up until 1980 from Thailand’s hill tribes. The whole affair was undertaken by Japanese anthropologists and ethno-musicologists and released by Victor as an audio verité document. The end result is a compelling and stunning crystal-clear aural voyage into Thailand’s ethnic minority tribes hiding out in the mountainous hinterland. The music spread over 3 LP’s is extremely varied and highly unique, so far removed from your daily Thailand tourist trap musical outings. Instead you get immersed into a sonic world that has remained largely hidden and unspoiled from outside influences. Male and female solo vocal excursions that come over like some ghostly sounds drifting on a dense fog hovering above the panoply of trees. Eerie and devoid of any time, it is bewitchingly beautiful. Other recordings bring a range of instruments into the mix such as Idiophones, cymbals, Aerophones, goblet-shaped drums, Membranophones and other animated devices that hurtle in and out of focus. An exploratory trip into a music brimming over with a shamanistic sense of kaleidoscopic beauty! So on display here are a wide arrange of folk songs, sung in various languages, and folk music of various peoples of northwestern Thailand. Recorded in northwestern Thailand, 1975-1980. Program notes and free translations of song texts by Uchida in Japanese with English translation.
As a recording of Thai ethnic minorities, it is a gem that seems to be unmatched in both quality and quantity. Recorded by Ruriko Uchida, an ethnic music researcher who is also known as a vocalist. Going to northwestern Thailand in search of the origin of Japanese music. From the 500 songs she recorded between 1975 and 1980, she recorded 80 carefully selected songs on three records. A number of musical scenes cut out with wonderful recordings that capture the spirits, such as farming songs, lullabies, ritual music, and magical music. First of all, from the first act where the love song sung by a Miao girl shines in the breath of the forest. The heavenly fluctuations are spun by the Shen ensemble, and finally the Lahu singing on a broken organ-like primitive sho. In the commentary, there is also an interesting consideration of descending to the origin of Japanese songs, using rice culture as a clue. Human music heritage!''
Tracklist
カレン族
1. スコー・カレン族
A1 教訓の歌
A2 焼き畑の草取り歌
A3 葬式で歌う恋の歌
A4 子守歌
A5 葬送歌
A6 水祭りの音楽
A7 仏讃歌
A8 キリスト教徒カレン族の聖歌
2. ポー・カレン族
A9 田植歌
A10 恋の歌
A11 結婚式の祝歌
A12 子守歌 I
A13 子守歌 II
A14 わらべうた
A15 仏に仕える歌
アカ族
B1 焼畑の稲作儀礼の歌
B2 焼畑の草取儀礼の歌
B3 恋の歌
B4 結婚を待ちわびる歌
B5 葬式の歌
B6 呪医の祈り
B7 新米を食べる歌
B8 チャウ（口琴）の独奏
B9 デム（三弦リュート）の独奏
リス族
B10 恋の歌
B11 正月の歌
B12 ジュリュ（たて笛）の独奏
B13 シュブ（三弦リュート）の独奏
B14 踊りの音楽
ラフ族
1. ラフ・ナ族
C1 物語歌
C2 陸稲刈入れの歌
C3 アタ（口琴）の独奏
C4 ノー（原始笙）の独奏
2. ラフ・ニ族
C5 焼畑の播種儀礼の歌
C6 恋を語りあう歌
C7 結婚式の歌
C8 収穫の踊りの音楽
C9 仏讃歌
3. ラフ・シェレ族
C10 恋の歌
C11 結婚の歌
C12 呪医が精霊を呼び出す祈り
C13 ノクマ（原始笙）、トーレム（原始笙）の合奏
メオ族
1. ホワイト・メオ族
D1 呪医の祈り
D2 焼畑の労作歌
D3 恋人との将来を想う歌
D4 求婚の歌
D5 子供の歌
D6 正月の歌
D7 ケーン（原始笙）の独奏
2. ブルー・メオ族
D8 恋の歌
D9 結婚式の歌
D10 結婚を悲しむ歌
D11 子守歌
D12 悲歌
D13 哀悼歌
D14 ジャン（口琴）の独奏
ヤオ族
E1 収穫の祈り
E2 子守歌
E3 三つの恋の歌（メドレー）
E4 歓迎の歌
E5 新年に客人を歓迎する歌
E6 鶏を供養する豊作儀礼
ラワ族
E7 焼畑の播種歌
E7 花嫁の歌
E8 子守歌
E9 泥棒と戦う歌
モン族
E10 恋の歌
E11 結婚を喜ぶ歌
E12 子守歌
E13 仏教の説話
タイ・ルー族
D1 物語歌
D2 森の歌
D3 幸運の祈り
シャン族
D4 恋の歌
D5 恋人を求める歌
D6 隣り村を訪問する歌
D7 酒を呑む歌
D8 子守歌
D9 仏讃歌
D10 仏の教えを守る人
