V/A - Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945-1960 LP Death Metal in a Pre-Weird America

in a Pre-Weird America

it sounds like Yacyshyn is beating some electric beast

and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté

even though they didn’t necessarily set out to do that & they play with complete individuality

to the precise bass lines of Paul Isherwood and the limber

V/A - Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945-1960 LP Death Metal in a Pre-Weird AmericaBegging the Moon is a collection focused upon an early to mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon (meaning "song which is both Thai and universal"). With recordings taken from the end of WWII until the start of the 1960s, many of these tracks may also be referred to as Luk krung (meaning "child of the city") a more urbanised style of popular song that is in contrast to the Thai country music known as Luk thung