My childhood is in there This is a really cool album. The perfect makossa showcase. Oh, and killer baselines from beginning to end.
Feeding The Machine by Binker and Moses. Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp. No matching results. Explore music. Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. Appia Kwa Bridge by Ebo Taylor. Markus Bader. Markus Bader I love this album because it makes my life much better, like all the Ebo Taylor albums. Thank you, Mr. Taylor, for this wonderful music!!!
Favorite track: Abonsam. Recording here with the Berlin-based Afrobeat Academy band, Taylor gets deeper into his musical roots than he has on previous releases, creating a powerful set of songs that sound as if they could have been recorded in on tracks like "Abonsam," the highlife standard "Yaa Amponsah," and the effortlessly groovy title track, Taylor revives the old-school sounds with an energy and joy that belie his age.
And on the album-closing "Barrima," he pays sweet tribute to his late wife with a stripped-down vocal-and-guitar composition that will break your heart. It all adds up to an album of unusual emotional depth and resonance. Wellington Boot. Cherly KaCherly. The Government. Rocker - June This month's three-hour show features tracks from the new album by The Nightingales , plus new tracks from The June Brides appropriate! The show starts with my personal tribute to the Royal Jubilee.
Apparat remixes Warren Suicide; while One Fathom Down take on a classic 60s movie soundtrack in their classic 60s surf guitar style, and Neil Young and Crazy Horse take on a gospel standard and make it their own. This month's Peel's Big 45 is a burst of lo-fi from , while this month's Educating Elizabeth 7" is a soul instrumental from featuring the bass playing of the great Donald Duck Dunn, who sadly passed away this month.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: The Sex Pistols ' "God Save The Queen" may or may not make it into the UK singles charts this month, but in the minds of all right-thinking people it was actually number one in , outselling the Rod Stewart 7" favoured by the establishment by something like two copies to one.
So there. The Blanche Hudson Weekend. A new remix from The Cambodian Space Project which will make you look at the band in a new light. A special live treat as well in this month's show in the form of a live show from the Equinox Bar in Phnom Penh by the city's newest musical sensation, Dub Addiction. It's not often that another culture gets Jamaican music but with the help of producer European Professor Kinski and a Senaglese toaster these Cambodian musicians, singer and toasters make a great stab of bringing dub sounds to a Khmer audience.
And plenty more - enjoy While we are here a bit of shameless self promotion. If you are in the area why not pop along. Turtle Giant. Dub Addiction. Arm Trick. Cambodian Space Project. Yank Sizzler - June Hot damn summer's here with some amazing late night rockers and early evening sit-downs. My head was spinning by the sight of more ugly cookie-cutter hotels, the new-rich driving gaudy SUVs, people of all ages begging, and amputees hobbling down the street. So, late one afternoon, I snuck away from my hotel and walked alone to Wat Bo, taking a back road that ran parallel with Wat Bo Road.
There is main shrine, plenty of Buddha figures, some smaller buildings and stupas, plus living quarters for the monks. Like most temples and monasteries, I found the atmosphere at Wat Bo very peaceful and relaxing. In the midst of all this so-called progress, it was comforting to spend time at a peaceful old temple. A friend of mine from Texas was visiting Bangkok last month and one night we met for dinner at a Korean restaurant near his hotel.
Imagine my surprise — and delight — to discover that all of the waiters at this restaurant were from Myanmar! The food was decent enough but the service from these waiters was outstanding.
Of course that fact that I can speak some Burmese no doubt helped to endear me to the staff. The young men and at least one woman in the kitchen! Migrant workers from Myanmar have been in the news again recently, in a very negative way, with wire service reports claiming that workers at some seafood factories in Thailand have to endure slave-like conditions, working hour days with no holiday time off and for paltry wages.
While there is no denying that some migrant workers have to suffer through horrible working conditions, most of the foreign workers from countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos in Thailand are fairly content with their situation. Their salaries are usually lower than what a Thai worker would receive for the same minimum wage job, and they often are not eligible for health care benefits or holiday overtime wages, and yet compared to what they would make at a similar job — if they could find one — in their native country the employment situation in Thailand is much, much better.
One of my best friends, Chiet, is from Cambodia and he has been working as a welder at various construction projects in the greater Bangkok area for the past three years. I can make more money and life is easier. And the same goes for people in Myanmar. Thus, many Burmese people like the waiters I know at this Korean restaurant continue to seek employment in Thailand and other countries.
Another friend, Yan Naing Soe, called me earlier tonight. A few months ago he moved back to Myanmar and is now working in the town of Muse, on the border with China. One aspect of the migrant workers that gets mentioned frequently is the so-called problem of underage workers in factories.
Are you telling me that you are going to forbid a year old who is trying to earn money to help support their family from working? What are their options? This insistence on employing only those who are 18 or older is sheer nonsense. And yet there are parallels.
People need work, they want to work, and they should be able to do that. Meanwhile my Cambodian friend Chiet is looking for another job in Thailand.
His leg became infected from some pieces of cut glass at the work site and he had to go to a hospital in Bangkok to get treated. And who paid for this treatment? Me of course! I shudder to think what would have happened to his leg if he had not promptly received proper medical care. So yeah, the treatment of migrant workers in Thailand and elsewhere could still be a lot, lot better. Cambodia , Myanmar , Politics , Travel. When the Cambodian language song started, he did one of those surprised neck swivels and sat up straight.
That also happens to be the title of a recently released film from Argot Pictures by John Pirozzi. Another result of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, in which millions of Cambodians lost their lives, was that the thriving music and film industries in Cambodia were also effectively snuffed. Thanks to exhaustive research, and a few lucky breaks, Pirozzi managed to unearth some rare footage of many Cambodia singers and musicians from the pre-Khmer Rouge era.
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