U BA THAN
This is a tape that a friend of mine brought back from Burma maybe in the early nineties. The only thing I know is the musician's name a major saung player or Burmese harp. It seems that he recorded mostly in the sixties and seventies and was a leading artist who influenced all the saung players of the younger generation. He tried to gather all the corpus of the traditional music in Burma and then hand it down.
The saung is an old instrument which would go back to the eighth century.
There are four tracks per side : on side A tunes are put together by two (hence two tracks) while on side B the four tunes are on one track. I found on line another tape with the same cover but a different content. So this might be part of a series.
U Ba Than is dead now but I don't know when.
Timeless classic! This is one of the first tapes I've heard. Thank you for the share.
ReplyDeleteSome of U Ba Than's other tapes can be found here: http://phyuniwarpyar.blogspot.com/search/label/ေစာင္းဦးဘသန္း%20ေတးစုမ်ား He is also featured on Folkways' seminal 1953 Burmese Folk and Traditional Music LP (track A6; it seems like this is his earliest traced recording also).
Thanks a lot for these information; Here is another blog where I found some information about U Ba Than : http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/
DeleteI finally listened to Abdullaev with great pleasure. Lovely voice and great control in the high pitch