Various Artists
Musical Instruments of Burma
King Records (Japan) 1978
GXC-5011 (LP) w/incert(WC, color-faded).
sleeve : EX-(WC, light color-faded.)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly surface noises, still good condition.)
This album was released in 1978 from the "World Ethnic Music Series" supervised by Fumio Koizumi, a leading ethnomusicologist in Japan. The album focuses on ethnic instruments from Burma (now Myanmar), and contains recordings made in the field in 1971 and 1978. The large metal percussion instrument called sine wine, which can be seen in the cover photo, first catches the eye, but the sound of the instrument heard in A1 and B2 is very warm, soft, and pleasant. Other instruments include the saung, which is famous in the movie "Burmese Harp," the mone sine, which is housed in a box like an attache case, the nay jee, which sounds like a chalmera, and the hattara, a keyboard percussion instrument. Highly recommended.