{"id":12341,"date":"2014-10-24T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2014-10-26T21:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T02:39:03","slug":"introducing-the-isan-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/introducing-the-isan-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… The Isan Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There may be nothing more effective in bridging the gap between vastly different cultures, in in highlighting our unique qualities and those characteristics we share, than an artistic endeavor. It’s exciting to see the results of a cross-cultural collaboration, especially when one is surprised by similarities in style and sensibility among seemingly diverse art forms in lands separated by thousands of miles.<\/p>\n

The Isan Project<\/a><\/strong> is one such collaboration. It started when producer Will Robinson visited Thailand on holiday. He discovered an Isan<\/a><\/strong> band on the Sukhumvit road in Bangkok. They were performing and busking for money. Isan is a province in Northeast Thailand, poor in wealth but rich in musical history. He was introduced to the Phin guitar and then heard a Mor lam singer<\/a><\/strong> from a taxi. He was fascinated and began his research into Isan music. He met Thai musicians Fatboyz Ford and Koh Saxman and went a pilgrimmage to Isan to experience the music for himself, with camera crew in tow. This experience and a subsequent video blog inspired him to fuse the music of Isan with contemporary sounds from New York and London.<\/p>\n