The Music Of Tháiland

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Heard On The Odyssey Series
Album Cover: The Rough Guide To The Music Of Thailand, World Music Network, 2003

Thailand, a country at the center of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, offers some of Asian’s most pulsating sounds infused with contemporary music abounding within the country. Record stores around the country of Thailand are bursting with the recorded sounds of Luk Thung, the central region’s so-called ‘country-music’ as well as Thai girl and Thai boy bands competing with their western and Japanese counterparts…

Soundbed: Tk 17 “Sao Noong San” Sorn Shinchai 3:59 Album: The Rough Guide To The Music Of Thailand

Episode Credits

  • About Executive Producer and host, Dr. Jonathan Øverby Host
  • Joe Hardtke Technical Director

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