FIVE ESSENTIAL SF RELEASES
01: SHADOW MUSIC OF THAILAND
Mid-‘60s Thai twang-guitar pop influenced by The Shadows: a space age Asian spy flick scored by Hank Marvin and Joe Meek.
02: 1970’s ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND
A treasure-trove of unearthed 45s documenting how early Rai pioneers strapped on wah-wah guitars and thumbed their noses at government censors.
03: LATINAMERICARPET: EXPLORING THE VINYL WARP OF LATIN AMERICA
A bewildering Latino mixtape full of loopy bargain-bin finds, psych-folk sing-along’s and echo-drenched acid-lounge instrumentals
04: GUITARS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE: FOLK AND POP MUSIC OF MYANMAR VOL.2
Haunting, opium-smeared psych-rock and shimmering Burmese C&W sourced from third-hand cassettes: rare, and beautiful as fuck.
05: GROUP DOUEH – GUITAR MUSIC FROM THE WESTERN SAHARA
Raw psychedelic guitar-music that sounds as if it has fallen through a crack in time and space: inspirational.
Kek-w