Psychedelic Rock that's not Psychedelic Rock

I came across this music clip a few weeks back and keep going back to it as the music is just really cool. I swear without the visual, you would think it is some krautrock Ash Ra psych jam band - except it's not, it's some dudes playing the town picnic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IYGl-l0Toig

I think some of the Gamelan music also has this kind of disassociation as the music sounds very electronic, yet it is as acoustic as you can get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGl-l0Toig

Try again...

That's fantastic. Could quite happily listen to it for hours.

Thai on, brother, Thai on.

So great...

Interesting division of drumkit labour.

how long do you think until somebody puts out a record of these guys?

Well, I tweeted this link last night and about 3 label folks I know replied instantly w/ more information about them so I'd guess "t minus 6 months"?

Hell I'd buy that record.

I'd pay to press that record! it will sell well.

I'm loving it.

According to google translate, they're called "Khun John Ritter's Harp Gallery application"

That kind of jam and an indie ironic name, brothers set the controls for the heart of the sun!

These dudes get more of a motorik Bill Monroe pulse going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9eiKMOrA_0

This music is just a jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=jUd9W2A2xhU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUd9W2A2xhU

I wish I had the $$ to book them to play the Railroad Festival here. Blow some freakin' minds.

look at all the bikes in the back of that first video. i like to imagine the whole band rolled in on those.

bike psych

http://images.monstermarketplace.com/traditional-and-contemporary-world-music/richard-lerman-travelon-gamelan-music-for-bicycles-richard-lerman-amplified-bicycle-wheels-1982-cd-693x700.jpg

so holy shit that original youtube post is amazing. what more can i listen to that is like that???

i can't think of any other band with that same kind of setup. they're recording an album, supposedly: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=518053301605702&id=268450113232690

i don't even know how to describe what i'm responding to - something about the acoustic psychedelic folk rock that i'm finding so soothing. i'd love to go to sleep listening to this.

lol @ the israeli's on that status msg anticipating the album

why lol?

just a serendipity lol

oh lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJle-HsTtfg

Woohoo!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Khun-Narins-Electric-Phin-Band/dp/B00L4RE0FO/ref=tmm_vnl_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

sweeeet

A standard engagement has the band setting up at the hosting household during the morning rituals, playing several low-key sets from the comfort of plastic lawn chairs occasionally working in a cover version of a foreign classic (The Cranberries "Zombie") while the beer and whiskey flow freely.

This is awesome and I will be getting a copy!

YES!

A standard engagement has the band setting up at the hosting household during the morning rituals, playing several low-key sets from the comfort of plastic lawn chairs occasionally working in a cover version of a foreign classic (The Cranberries "Zombie") while the beer and whiskey flow freely.

― mizzell, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wanna join this jam session

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/khun-narin-electric-phin-band/

Killer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrvkRgctoI

Potential AOTY

hell yeah, so psyched! been waiting & hoping ever since earlnash posted that first tube.

https://khunnarin.bandcamp.com/releases

So ridiculously excited about this. So far, it's sounds great. Exactly what I was expecting...which is the same jams (as the youtube videos) with much improved sound quality. Although, I always did think that the rough editing and the various party sounds and crowd noises in the background of the videos was very charming.

STOKED

Very fun record. Agreed that it loses a bit of the spontaneity of the live recordings, but the freewheeling vibe makes it such a breeze to listen straight through. Love the percussion.

wow, 300,000 views of the youtube at the top of the page. We have a hit!

Mainstream press taking notice:

http://www.newsweek.com/khun-narin-phin-sing-psychedelic-rock-band-discovered-remote-village-thailand-266649?piano_t=1

a near-clone of the Wired article though

Perhaps this has shown up elsewhere but I was pleased that the Newsweek article posted the track that morphs into "Zombie" for a bit.

http://youtu.be/tRg410DDeQE

I can't get enough of this album. There is so much joy in it, or at least it seems that way to me. Very excited for the vinyl to arrive.

finally got around to listening to this, it's so rad. loses some of the lofi charm and atmosphere of those vids but i think the music is a bit more dynamic this time around?

I'm waiting for my copy - I would totally pay for an album of just field recordings like the vids, though.

Not sure where to post about Senyawa from Indonesia so I'll post here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_C4hlfziDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLw659ze9aI

Much less laid-back and more intentionally "experimental" than Khun Narin, I guess.

Kinda Boredoms-ish? There's a 25 minute video of them playing around Java and I'm trying to figure out what the hell the stringed instrument is the one guy's playing. Looks like a Chapman stick, sounds like Neubauten. Dunno if I'd want an album by them but I'd definitely see them live.

According to the Wire article I found out about them in, it is "a long bamboo trunk strung with metal and bamboo string. Modelled on the valiha tube zither from Madagascar, it also has connections to stringed instruments found in remote corners of Indonesia. This is an amplified zither Wukir has fashioned himself and christened the bambuwukir. Musically it stretches from delicate harp filigree to rampaging percussion workouts, influenced by the hectic kuntulan drumming groups of East Java. It's the strings cut from the kin of the bamboo itself that generate Senyawa's powerful rhythmic patterns." So there you go.

Khun Narin is out touring the world now. Got this sent to me from their site, it's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lOn94Cgxw&feature=youtu.be

Holy shit that is great. This happened so fast. Amazing times.

It seems like maybe something has shifted in their sound in this context—even from the record? But in a really really good way, like they are accenting the right rock tropes.

I want this recording.

yeah this is wonderful, really groovy

I think the big thing with the difference in the sound is just everything is miked up and mixed.

They have definitely upped the level of whoops and celebratory howls like they're Blueshammer.

Khun Narin is out touring the world now. Got this sent to me from their site, it's good.

― earlnash, Sunday, 13 December 2015 14:33 (Yesterday) Permalink

I can't find any tour dates info online, can you post a link?

Don't know how extensive they are touring, but that video is from France. It's kinda wild how far they have come. Live the dream!

Big Ears Music Festival should book them and then I could go see them live.

There's still room on the Levitation Austin bill this year.

Interview! New album to come.

http://bk.asia-city.com/city-living/news/khun-narin-electric-phin-band