Wednesday, October 6, 2021

yotrak salakchai: ao nae



artist: ยอดรัก สลักใจ (yotrak salakchai)
album: เอาแน่ (ao nae)
tracklist:
01. เอาแน่ (ao nae)
02. ช้ำดวงใจ (cham duang chai)
03. เกี๊ยะลอยน้ำ (kia loi nam)
04. ยอดรักเมา (yotrak mao)
05. รักซิ่ง (rak sing)
06. ไม่เหมียนเดิม (mai mian doem)
07. จากเธอด้วยดวงใจ (chak thoe duai duang chai)
08. เมาตาสาย (mao ta sai)
09. วันครึ้มใจ (wan khruem chai)
10. คืนส่งตัว (khuen song tua)

this week, another great cassette from the late police corporal yotrak salakchai! yotrak was from phichit in northern thailand, the youngest of 8 kids. after losing his father at age 7, he and his siblings started singing ramwong music in local bars to help support themselves and their mother, earning enough to finance their schooling. after high school, yotrak himself moved down to nakhon sawan for a steady gig at a restaurant, where he started in with luk thung style (particularly the songs of phraiwan lukphet) and was picked up by a local radio dj, who passed him onto impresario chonlathi thanthong. under chonlathi, he came to be one of the biggest names in luk thung, from the late 70s until his untimely passing in 2008. this 1986 cassette on phanom nopphon's label (nopphon promotion and pictures, later nopphon silver gold co., ltd.) finds yotrak in hi-nrg disco mode, with songwriting from suchat thiangthong and arrangements by chittakon buaniam. i thought the cover photo may have been a still from one of yotrak's many film appearances, but it's actually from a music video shot to promote the album.. enjoy!
 

8 comments:

peter said...

FLAC

FiveGunsWest said...

WOW.......I wasn't expecting this. It's ab-fab......absolutely stellar.

Hasni El Harchi said...

Cassette marocain pliz

peter said...

hello Hasni El Harchi! i don't have any moroccan cassettes, i'm sorry to say.. you should check out moroccan tape stash

Gary said...

Yay!

chitarr said...

Hi, may I ask for some help, I saw in pokora's book a thai album called Thongta Plamee - Kunchang Tam Lang Kunpan but found no information on net at all, do you have any idea? thanks a lot!

peter said...

hi chitarr! i don't have a copy of that album that i could post here, but you can stream it on youtube here

chitarr said...

Wow, It has been great to have chance to listen to it, thanks a lot, Peter!