Name This Tune
Aug 6th, 2006 by Jinja
Name This Tune
‘Volcanic Tongue’ says:
Enos Slaughter
Saloth Sar
Sound @ One #72 CD £10.99
Second album from these No Neck Blues Band/Sunburned Hand Of The Man/Izititiz affiliates. Recorded live at WFMU radio in New Jersey, Saloth Sar comes adorned with photographs of Khmer Rouge prisoners taken from Cambodia’s S21 prison archives and invective against America’s involvement in the ‘secret’ war there. The music itself is a whole other program for liberation with Marc Orleans’s guitar, David Shuford’s moog and bouzouki playing and Carter Thornton’s what-the-fuck combining in huge non-idiomatic gestures that refuse any convenient forms or ideologies. Comes in a handscreened cardstock digipak.
Jinja says: Why do I have a sinking feeling I’ve heard this song before? Like His Name is Alive, SPK and other remote commentators, have they actually come out for a visit? These guys could benefit from a ‘Holiday in Cambodia‘. Or some collab time with Cambodia musos.
Also on the music angle: Jeff at Jungle Bar Blog notes there is a new film on Ros Srey Sothea on the way! Awesome.
Previously:
http://jinja.apsara.org/blog/2005/11/summer-bird.htm
http://jinja.apsara.org/blog/2006/01/blue-cambodia.htm
http://tinyurl.com/navxt
http://www.qdcomic.com/music/2005/07/khmer-power-pop.html
