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Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

by Kantrum Dongman

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    + a 10-page fullcolor booklet containing extensive liner notes and photos of the recording session
    + a collection of bpm-locked drumloops based on the traditional kantrum rhythms
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Beautiful designed gatefold digipack CD version of the album with 6-page full-color booklet including photos of the recording session and detailed liner notes.
    The CD contains 10 tracks. The percussion loops are exclusive for Bandcamp, and are included as a download when purchasing the CD

    Includes unlimited streaming of Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Off-Grid, Asian Tropical Bass Vol.1, Marbled Chant, Taraf, Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand, Nam Ton Tad EP, Kow Mai, Swarms, and 6 more. , and , .

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about

'A fascinating collection of catchy and mesmerizing songs - ★★★★' - Songlines Magazine

This album provides a rare opportunity to hear a kind of music that has strong cultural significance, but was almost completely erased by the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in the Cambodia of the ‘70s.


Kantrum is not only of great value to the surviving Khmer people as part of their heritage, but is a powerful healing method in the first place.

In Khmer animism the people belief their happiness depends on the spirits that live around them. 
When a person becomes ill they believe the spirits are angry, and therefore need to be consoled by shaman-lead rituals with music and dance.


In the ‘90s the Khmer in Cambodia found out that a music that sounded familiair in language, melody, rhythm and instrumentation, but they didn’t know, survived on the other side of the border in Thailand.

Since then the soulful songs with deep grooving rhythms sparked a revival that has been growing steadily ever since.


One of the few surviving groups with knowledge of the original music has been recorded by Olivier Schreuder & Angkanang Pimwankum of Animist Records in the border-province Surin in Northeast-Thailand.
The duo that is also behind the esantronics of Thai-Dutch collective Apichat Pakwan, in which they present both obscure Lao & Thai songs as well as their own new compositions, now introduce another selection of Southeast Asian music to the world that is rarely heard outside of the region it comes from. 


The release is exclusive available on Bandcamp. As a special treat it also contains a collection of Kantrum drumloops highly useful for producers and DJ’s alike.

credits

released May 17, 2022

Performed by the musicians of Ban Dong Man, Surin, Thailand on 9 December 2018.
Recorded in one take by Olivier Schreuder & Angkanang Pimwankum

With special thanks to Suyata Canlaya

Mixed & mastered by Olivier Schreuder

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