Sublime Frequencies is the label run by Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayat. Some of you might already be familiar with their Omar Souleyman or Group Doueh releases. Others are OGs and already know how awesome the label is.
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Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations.
Sublime Frequencies is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research.
It wasn't until I spent a lot of time on those records that I progressed to learn about the psychedelic folk genre molam in Sublime's Frequencies' Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2. My first reaction was that it was the best music that I'd ever heard in my life. I just sat in awe of most of the record since it was so clearly derived from Western psychedelic music but rests in such an entirely different realm. That was a good night, my dudes. It was later my pick for the album club (RIP).
That later led to Princess Nicotine, which is a Mono (Burmese pop/folk) compilation that also put me into a similar state of elation when I first heard it. I love the excitable sensibility in the rhythms and the vocals.
I'm still slowly chewing my way through their discography, but even if they only had what I've heard from them so far (there are a few that I'ven't mentioned), I can't help but thank chaos for Alan Bishop for offering us this on top of Sun City Girls, Alvarius B. and the rest of his works.
Frownland
01-08-2018 06:14 PM
Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
Anteater
01-08-2018 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland
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Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
Err Guitar
OccultHawk
01-08-2018 08:17 PM
Also, I’m going to assume you know better than to choose Known Unknowns
Frownland
01-08-2018 09:27 PM
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Err Guitar
Good choice, we'll have to see if you're right.
FYI the list is finalized so I won't switch it up on you guys to screw you out of the prize if you guess right.
MicShazam
01-09-2018 04:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Frownland
(Post 1912322)
Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
Don't think I have any chance of guessing it, but I'm going with this one, for a lack of better ideas.
Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
I have a few ideas but I have looked through your last.fm, so I don't really wanna cheat.
Mindfulness
01-10-2018 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Frownland
(Post 1912322)
Also, anyone who can guess my number one album before I start my top twenty list gets a prize. Deadline is after I finish my 17 honourable mentions and other filler. Dead serious, you will get a dope prize if you guess correctly.
