Various Artists / Princess Nicotine
| Album: | Princess Nicotine | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Apr 2004 | |
| Label: | Sublime Frequencies | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2004-07-05 | Pull Date: | 2004-09-06 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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| Week Ending: | Sep 5 | Aug 1 | Jul 18 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 24, 2011: | Orangeasm
Really Strange and Weird Thi, Burmese Golden Drum |
4. | Sep 10, 2008: | Charismatic Megafuana
My Darling's Love Arrow |
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| 2. | Jun 10, 2010: | The Value Machine
Someday He Will Return |
5. | Apr 07, 2008: | Emphysema For Emphasis
My Darling's Love Arrow |
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| 3. | May 29, 2009: | Emphysema For Emphasis
Beautiful Town |
6. | Feb 11, 2008: | Emphysema For Emphasis
My Darling's Love Arrow |
Album Review
The Voice of Doom
Reviewed 2004-06-18
Reviewed 2004-06-18
"Folk & Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Volume 1"
Strongly reminiscent of Indian "Filmee" music, with lots of high, soulful female vocals.
Differences: a very high, reedy instrument like a "snake charmer" horn; angular start-stop rhythms and weaving melodies. Other prominent instruments are very fast piano (sounding almost like harp glissendos), a plucked string instrument like a lute, some sort of hand drums (almost like bongos), flute, and more. Warning: Some tracks have big chunks of spoken dialog (2, 10, 4-operatic). Originally released on cassette in 1994.
Picks:
(6) 2:40 "Jasmine Bush of Gold" -- Intro: slow flute; main part: slow male vocals with light lute (?) accompaniment, a folky sound; close: flute & lute.
(8) 4:28 "Good Time" -- Distant female vox wails over slow weaving melody.
(11) 6:11 "Lover of the Winter and Snow" -- *bling* *blang* *bling*, harp-like piano lead, slow female vox, like early hollywood torch-singing.
(12) 3:01 "My Darling's Love Arrow" -- fast rhythm, lead is like "beat-the-clock", high reed-licks, filled-in orchestral sound, slows a little and female vox comes in.
Also good:
(1) 6:40 "Burmese Golden Drum" -- very dramatic, lead: flourishes of bongos (?), then high shreiking reedy licks, then the female vox comes in.
(5) 1:10 "The Tune of the First Entertainment" -- Forceful drums, high reedy thing, female shouts.
(7) 2:42 "Someday He Will Return" -- Lush, produced sound, like electric guitar wail, a silly movie music flourish, then some great mid-tempo female vox.
(9) 1:12 "Lover of Smiling Girls" -- Obnoxious kick from "snakecharmer", female vox, melody like a music box, rhythm weaves, almost halts, then resumes.
Strongly reminiscent of Indian "Filmee" music, with lots of high, soulful female vocals.
Differences: a very high, reedy instrument like a "snake charmer" horn; angular start-stop rhythms and weaving melodies. Other prominent instruments are very fast piano (sounding almost like harp glissendos), a plucked string instrument like a lute, some sort of hand drums (almost like bongos), flute, and more. Warning: Some tracks have big chunks of spoken dialog (2, 10, 4-operatic). Originally released on cassette in 1994.
Picks:
(6) 2:40 "Jasmine Bush of Gold" -- Intro: slow flute; main part: slow male vocals with light lute (?) accompaniment, a folky sound; close: flute & lute.
(8) 4:28 "Good Time" -- Distant female vox wails over slow weaving melody.
(11) 6:11 "Lover of the Winter and Snow" -- *bling* *blang* *bling*, harp-like piano lead, slow female vox, like early hollywood torch-singing.
(12) 3:01 "My Darling's Love Arrow" -- fast rhythm, lead is like "beat-the-clock", high reed-licks, filled-in orchestral sound, slows a little and female vox comes in.
Also good:
(1) 6:40 "Burmese Golden Drum" -- very dramatic, lead: flourishes of bongos (?), then high shreiking reedy licks, then the female vox comes in.
(5) 1:10 "The Tune of the First Entertainment" -- Forceful drums, high reedy thing, female shouts.
(7) 2:42 "Someday He Will Return" -- Lush, produced sound, like electric guitar wail, a silly movie music flourish, then some great mid-tempo female vox.
(9) 1:12 "Lover of Smiling Girls" -- Obnoxious kick from "snakecharmer", female vox, melody like a music box, rhythm weaves, almost halts, then resumes.
Track Listing