Feb
7

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Yangon Street Songs • Singing for Sales • MYANMAR

There are many songs and singers walking the streets of Yangon, Myanmar. There are the songs of prayer, sung by female monks.

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At each bus stop, ticket salesmen melodically call out where the busses are going. A young man sings in residential streets, offering to buy old mattresses.

Yangon Street Songs - the Mattress Buyer

Mattress Buyer in Yangon

 

Then there are the songs of sweet drinks and broom salesmen.

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Each song – from old mattresses to brooms – is almost exactly the same throughout the entire city. Ask a local Yangon resident and they’ll probably be able to sing the melody to you – Yangon’s Street Songs!

Dec
30

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GOLD • A Holi Song • With NIMISHA SHANKAR

An acoustic performance of Gold, which is a holi song, sung by Nimisha Shankar. Nimisha is a classically trained Indian singer, living in Bangalore at the time of this recording.

You can hear more of this “rooftop” concert at OXLAEY’s SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/oxlaey