About Me
In some dusty tape shop on a lonely street of Surin, it was Baby Space Jesus who came across the eye catching cassette cover you see sitting in the upper left corner of this page. And who could resist the swirling colors, the mod frame, the candy letters, or the young woman in the center of the frame? Certainly not one named either Baby, Space, or Jesus. The tape became an instant classic amoungst our growing collection of cassettes that served as a sound track to living large in KrungThep. We scoured the country for anything Sut Sri, harassing music store owners in our broken Thai for anything having to do with her. She lived up to expectations over and over. The songs, the grooves, the instrumentations, the arrangements, the cohesiveness of every album, and the execution of this music is mystifying. The Saw player himself is worth the investment. But the voice was center of it all, painting images of the sultry onset of night. We waited for the frogs and crickets to join in, the campfire to die low, the bottle to be passed, the smoke to rise and the instruments to come out.Sut Sri, we know nothing about. She seemingly lived in Surin at some point, but was she a native to the province, or a Cambodian refugee, as she claims in one song. What time period are we talking here? late 70’s? early 80’s? Is she still around? How about her male counterparts, the saw player who’s virtuosity shimmers on Sao Guntrum... or the rare baritone voice of the two tracks here attributed as the "Silver Disc" album. My informants sleep. My data is incomplete, and this is why this page exisist. To share with the Webworld this music I have loved for 15 years or so, but also for contributers to fill in some of the blanks... or we will simply love it and it’s mysteries.
Thank you
Gornick
