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Artist       : VA
Title        : My Friend Rain
Release Date : 07/2010
Genre        : Ethnic
Label        : Sublime Frequencies
Video        : MPEG-2
Audio        : AC3
Extras       : None in Source
Format       : ISO Image
Rar Count    : 52x50mb
URL          : http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

Info:

Filmed throughout Southeast Asia by Robert Millis between 2002-2004,
My Friend Rain is an abstract homage to the endless monsoon cycles
of rebirth and destruction. Dreamy musical segments, fleeting glimpses,
odd sounds, temple shrines, tropical backdrops, decay, death, languid
afternoon rains, and mysterious celebratory events take the viewer
from soaked mornings in the lowlands of the Irrawaddy delta to humid
nights on the streets of Isan province. Two tracks originally released
on Millis' Leaf Music, Drunks, Distant Drums CD from 2002 can now be
witnessed for the first time in this film: an amazing elephant mahout
playing a song on a leaf with his mouth and a Burmese marionette
orchestra musician performing expertly on tuned drums. The overall
experience is an impressionistic collage of sight and sound captured
live and in the moment on location in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and
Myanmar.

Along with the DVD which features 12 minutes of extra footage and deleted
scenes, the package includes a bonus CD with the film's soundtrack of
traditional and popular music culled from live performance, cassette and
LP archives. Some of the soundtrack highlights: a gorgeous Thai Luk Thung
track by Waiphot Phetsuphan, a classic Khmer performance by Pan Ron, one
of the Queens of Cambodian music, and an epic Burmese pop rendition of the
Bee Gee's How Do You Mend a Broken Heart, alongside folk performers, street
musicians and a traditional Burmese orchestra. Robert Millis, original
co-founder of both Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT, also co-produced the
Victrola Favorites Book/CD project on Dust to Digital and is a frequent
contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label.

DVD/CD comes in a 2-disc jewel box with full-color insert.