Blending sister souls

 

Angkanang Kunchai was a young female prodigy who emerged on the Molam scene, and became one of the first generations of Molam performers who were able to "sing" popular music. From an early age she was mentored by renowned national Molam artist Chaweewan Dumnern, and in her mid-teens joined the legendary musical troupe the Ubon-Pattana Band as the lead vocalist. In 1972 at the age of 16, she released her debut single "Isan Lam Plearn," which went on to become an enduring classic. The song was also a defining moment in the career of Ubon's legendary producer Surin Paksiri, as it was the first recording in which Isan music -- in particular Molam -- was fused with Luk Thung from Bangkok to form the new musical genre of Luk Thung Isan. 

This music invented by record industry genius Paksiri, transformed Molam groups into rock bands and saw them starting to perform with the same kind of intensity as Luk Thung artists. The mix of contemporary singing styles with traditional Molam broke a major taboo and resulted in some truly outlandish music. "Isan Lam Plearn" became a major hit as the theme tune to the film Bua Lam Pu, and before long this new forbidden cool began to infect everyone, with performers turning in their droves to the Luk Thung Isan style. 

This turned out to be a precursor to the spread of Isan music across the country and the Molam boom that engulfed Thailand in the '90s -- an unprecedented period in Thailand's musical history in which Luk Thung singers were simply not able to make it in the record business unless they could perform Molam. This album represents a crucial moment in Thai musical history when the performance styles of Molam and Luk Thung were fused together for the very first time.

Angkanang Kunchai - Isan Lam Plearn

Hymns of youth

 

Turkish Ladies. Female Singers from Turkey 1974 - 1988 is a Disco/Funk/Psychedelic compilation made by Turkish Epic Istanbul label.

Turkish Ladies • Female Singers from Turkey 1974 - 1988

Travelling across misteries

 

Piero Umiliani (July 17, 1926 Florence - February 14, 2001 Rome) was an Italian composer of film scores and library music who was also behind the Omicron label and the Sound Work Shop label & Sound Work-Shop Studio, and cofounder of Liuto Edizioni Musicali. In his long career he composed and recorded 190 soundtracks, 40 library albums and 35 TV title themes.

He became most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" of 1968, that was originally used for a Mondo documentary about Sweden (Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso) and became world-famous in 1977 when performed for The Muppet Show. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, covering genres such as spaghetti western, Eurospy, Giallo, and soft sex films. Although not as widely regarded as, for example, Ennio Morricone or Riz Ortolani, he helped form the style of the typical European '60s/'70s jazz-influenced film soundtrack that later experienced a revival in films like Kill Bill and Ocean's Twelve.

 

 Piero Umiliani - Studio Umiliani

Youthful momentum of the past

 

Clothilde (pseudonym of Élisabeth Beauvais; born February 22, 1948) is a French singer who was active for a brief period in 1967. Clothilde recorded only two 45 rpm records in 1967 with words written by Jean-Yves Gaillac to music orchestrated by Germinal Tenas.

 

Clothilde - Clothilde

Poems for a windy day

 

Meiko Kaji (梶 芽衣子, born March 24, 1947) is a Japanese actress and singer. Since the 1960s, she has appeared in over 100 film and television roles, most prominently in the 1970s with her most famous roles as outlaw characters, best known for her performances in the film series Stray Cat Rock, Wandering Ginza Butterfly, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion and Lady Snowblood. Kaji also performed as a singer, releasing records concurrently with her film career and beyond, even providing the official feature theme song tracks to a few of the films she also starred in.

 

Meiko Kaji - Sareyo Sareyo Kanashimi No Shirabe

Impressed by distant lights

The Feed-Back or "The Group" (also known as Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) was an avant-garde free improvisation group considered the first experimental composers collective, formed by Franco Evangelisti (piano, percussion), Ennio Morricone (trumpet, flute) and Egisto Macchi (percussion, celesta, strings) as main members.

 

The collective was formed by Italian composer Franco Evangelisti in Rome in 1964. Drawing on jazz, serialism, musique concrete, and other avant-garde techniques developed by contemporary classical music composers such as Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi, the group was dedicated to the development of new music techniques by improvisation, noise-techniques, and anti-musical systems. The group members and frequent guests made use of extended techniques on traditional classical instruments, as well as prepared piano, tape music and electronic music. During the 1970s the music continued to evolve to embrace techniques and genres such as guitar feedback and funk. The group slowly disbanded after Evangelisti's death in 1980.

 

The Feed-Back - The Feed-Back

In a wild sea adventure

 

Yanti Bersaudara (which means Yanti Sisters: Yani, Tina & Lin Hardjakusumah), was a very spiritual and magical Sunda vocal trio, with haunting vibes based on a unique, creative and strong Sundanese cultural heritage. Active only for less than a decade (from the 1960s until the early 1970s), the three sisters originally from Bandung (West Java) sang traditional sundanese songs with beautiful voices & harmonies, creating a trippy oriental exotic psychedelic sound.

 

Yanti Bersaudara - Sinbad 

A hard's day night in 1656

 

Peter Breiner (born July 3, 1957, in Humenné, in former Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia) is a Slovak pianist, conductor, and composer.

Breiner has recorded over 150 albums as conductor or pianist. He is well known for his arrangements, such as Baroque versions of the Beatles and a similar adaptation of Elvis Presley, as well as arrangements of popular Christmas music. His 2004 release of all the national anthems of the world was used by the Athens Olympic Committee as the music for medal ceremonies at the Games.

 

Peter Breiner and His Chamber Orchestra - Beatles Go Baroque

To shine the floor all night

 

Bappi Lahiri (27 November 1952, West Bengal, India - 15 February 2022) was a son of Aparesh Lahiri, a famous Bengali singer and Bansari, a musician and a singer who was well-versed in classical music. His parents trained him in every aspect of music. He began to play the tabla at the tender age of three. 

 

He was a music director in Bollywood and popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema. Bappi Lahiri was the pioneer of disco beats in India and is widely recognized throughout India as the sole originator. He is widely known as the "Disco King" in India, even today.

He has been known to sing duets with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar. He has also worked with renowned singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. 

 

Bappi Lahiri - Disco Dancer

In the way of Shangri-La

 

Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. 

 

Jean-Claude Vannier - Les Chemins De Katmandou (Epaves De La Bande Originale Du Film) 

The Queen of land of 1000 dances

 

Jun Mayuzumi (黛ジュン ; born 26 May 1948, in Chōfu, Tokyo) is a Japanese singer. Her best known songs include "Tenshi-no Yūwaku" (Angel's Temptation 1968). She is an actress too, known for Jotei (1983), Kimi wa koibito (1967) and Yoake no futari (1968).

 

 Jun Mayuzumi - Angel Love

Sounds from cold winters

 

Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music.

 

Merit Hemmingson - Balsam

The master who merges time

 

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian sitarist and Bengali musician, best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. Son of Uday Shankar, nephew of Rajendra Shankar and Ravi Shankar, brother of Mamata Shankar, uncle of Ratul Shankar, and cousin of Shubho Shankar, Norah Jones, and Anoushka Shankar.

 

Ananda Shankar - Sitar Meets Moog

Echoes from forgotten islands

 

Yanti Bersaudara (which means Yanti Sisters: Yani, Tina & Lin Hardjakusumah), was a very spiritual and magical Sunda vocal trio, with haunting vibes based on a unique, creative and strong Sundanese cultural heritage. Active only for less than a decade (from the 1960s until the early 1970s), the three sisters originally from Bandung (West Java) sang traditional sundanese songs with beautiful voices & harmonies, creating a trippy oriental exotic psychedelic sound.

 

 

Yanti Bersaudara - Yanti Bersaudara

Uncovering pyramid secrets

 

Baligh Hamdi (7 October 1931 – 17 September 1993) was an Egyptian composer who created hit songs for many prominent Arabic singers, especially during the 1960s and 1970s; he frequently said that he drew upon musical ideas and aesthetics in Egyptian folk melodies and rhythms in composing his songs. He also drew on ideas that were floating around in the contemporary music of his time. His sound has a classical flavor due to the heavy use of the string orchestra. But he also made some use of electronic keyboards and guitars in harmony with the strings, or alternating with the strings, in many songs. 

 

Baligh Hamdi - Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970's Egypt

Rhythms to become primate

 

Mustafa Özkent is a Turkish musician, composer and arranger. Best known for his 1973 album, Gençlik İle Elele, he also earned a reputation as an in-demand session player, arranger, and producer, "creating music that fused psychedelic and pop/rock influences with R&B grooves and jazz-influenced improvisations.

Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrası - Gençlik İle Elele

Three pearls from Sunda Islands

 

Yanti Bersaudara (which means Yanti Sisters: Yani, Tina & Lin Hardjakusumah), was a very spiritual and magical Sunda vocal trio, with haunting vibes based on a unique, creative and strong Sundanese cultural heritage. Active only for less than a decade (from the 1960s until the early 1970s), the three sisters originally from Bandung (West Java) sang traditional sundanese songs with beautiful voices & harmonies, creating a trippy oriental exotic psychedelic sound.

 

Yanti Bersaudara - Yanti Bersaudara

Rolling at Beirut's dancefloor

 

Egypt & Lebanon: Cosmic Arabic Disco & Searing Dance Floor Bangers 1974-1985 is a Funk/Protodisco compilation made by USA label Cedarphon.

 

 

Egypt & Lebanon • Cosmic Arabic Disco & Searing Dance Floor Bangers 1974-1985 

A tribute to nature

 

Egisto Macchi (1928 - 1992) was a enowned Italian composer who created approximately 50 cinema soundtracks, primarily for Belgian and French films. He also contributed musical commentary to approximately 1000 documentaries and television shows.

 

Egisto Macchi - Biologia Animale E Vegetale

A teenage love story

 

Laily Dimjathie is an Indonesian singer and actress; Band 4 Nada was an Indonesian band formed by A. Rijanto (guitar, organ, bandleader), Eddy Syam (guitar), Nana Sumarna (bass guitar), M. Sani (drums) and Sjafi'ie Glimboh (organ).

 

 Laily Dimjathie & Band 4 Nada - Laily Dimjathie

Waiting for mistery

 

Pierre Cavalli (born July 12, 1928, Zurich ; March 28, 1985 idem. ) was a Swiss jazz and studio musician (guitar, bass); He played various guitar styles on innumerable European album productions from the 1950s to the 1970s. Already in the 1940s he had become a friend of Django Reinhardt and attended his performances in Paris. He performed with well known jazz artists like Art Simmons, Hans Koller, Peter Trunk, Daniel Humair or Wolfgang Dauner and made excellent commercial productions for music libraries. Cavalli became employed by Friedrich Gulda as his first big band guitar player, joined the “Swiss All Stars” and performed with the excellent but short-lived fusion bands “Oimels” (MPS) and “Emphasis” (Pick). He was well known throughout the studio scene, played in several orchestras, appeared at galas, composed music for French tv-serials and belonged more to the showiz than to the “serious” jazz scene. His impressive discography lists over 500 titles.

 

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Chants from Phou Bia

 

Sothy is a band from Laos, involved into Molam music; ther sound of Sothy is a slow paced drums with offbeats softly phased with the guitar, misty takeoffs from the synthesizer.

Sothy - Lam Seung!!!.. Chansons Laotiennes

A fight for freedom

 

Giuliano Sorgini is an Italian composer and musician who initially created music for TV and in the '70s switched to cinema; he mixed beat, prog, funk and psychedelia with library music.

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A true hybrid which creates energy

 

The Son Of P.M. was a mid 60's band from Thailand; they played great instrumental versions of traditional thai music with electric guitars and Farsifa organs. The band was formed by Kabuan Mukeda (electric organ), Subin Muangchuang (lead guitar), Udom Keanaem (bass), Don Downvadeung & Krungohon Kumpleamohit (drums),  Sothorn Stithom (xylophone), Choompoll Spinual (accordion) and Phayung Mukeda (conductor).

The Son Of P.M. - Hey Klong Yao!