Sunday, September 18, 2011

Angkor-Vat recorded by Maurice Bitter




Pre-khmer rouge cambodian recordings appear to be pretty rare.  The Jaques Brunet recording seems to be pretty ubiquitous, and the great luobiniya blog has a couple others, but this Angkor-Vat record is not on discogs, and I can find absolutely no other mention of it anywhere on the internet, despite the fact that Maurice Bitter was a rather prolific ethno-recordist whose voodoo ceremony recordings are rather famous. It inlcudes a song composed, if not actually sung, by the "king-father" of cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Nepal and India 2010


Shortwave and ambient recordings recorded with the Zoom H4 during two months in northern India and Nepal, March-April 2010.

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01. Indian carnival barker
02. Two shennai players practicing in their house, Siliguri
03. Sealdah train station, Kolkata
04. Nepal wall of death pt. I, Janakpur
05. Chinese earthquake news
06. The worst muzzein
07. A-diggy dah
08. Kumbh Mela, Haridwar
09. Varanasi train station
10. TV dancers
11. The corner of Lenin Sarani and Central ave, around 3pm, Kolkata
12. Chinese echo shortwave
13. Nepal wall of death pt. II, Janakpur (a similar indian WoD I witnessed)

India Nepal 2010 by carraldo