LA-011 Su Wai - Gita Pon Yeik Distributed Titles

LA-011 Su Wai - Gita Pon Yeik Distributed TitlesSu Wai is a modern virtuoso of the ancient Saung Gauk, a Burmese harp instrument of both royal and religious significance (fashioned to resemble a leaf of the bo tree which the Buddha attained enlightenment beneath) with roots as far back as the 6th century. In this collection of 8 traditional poem songs, Wai unfurls clusters of melodic lines alongside a cyclical bell chime pulse to accompany texts drawn from the Mahagita, a collection of 500 court

buzzing tones widely noted for their ability to sweetly refresh one’s soul

Andean party music from the central sierra of Peru

upon its arrival to Somalia in the 1940’s

This is such moving

Recorded and produced by Rick Heizman

Digital copies available on bandcamp here: https://littleaxerecords

after he had already been a star in Mali for over 25 years

including Roha Band

A co-release of Domino Sound and Little Axe

& drums who tried to hoodwink audiences into believing that he was 150 years old & the standard bearer for authentic Americana

and recorded her first full-length tape with the Roha Band in 1982

he made these recordings backed up by the Aduu Birra Band