THE MOKEN - SEA GYPSIES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA

VARIOUS ARTISTS
TOPIC

Item Information Artists Name: VARIOUS ARTISTS Title: THE MOKEN - SEA GYPSIES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA Format: CD Label: TOPIC City Hall Catalog Number:  919 UPC Product Code: 714822091923 List Price: 15.98 Musical Category:  INTERNATIONAL Release Date:  5/10/2002 Additional Musical Category Notes:   The Sea Gypsies have been sailing up & down the west coast of the Malay Peninsula for hundreds of years. Traditionally living on their Kabang (self contained houseboats) & trading sea slugs, pearls, shells & bird's nests for life's necessities, many sea gypsies have now begun to settle permanently, and abandon their nomadic culture. Some like the Moken, continue to move between the islands, their ocean territory becoming ever more threatened by expanding tourism in Thailand & political repression in Myanmar. The Moken's music collected on this CD, recorded on a deserted beach between surf & jungle, is wild & unpredicatable, full of warmth & drama.