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This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: Neung Phak's bedazzling debut, recorded with chanteuse Diana Hayes, is an almost incomprehensibly funky mish-mash of Southeast Asian pop and traditional melodies, served up spicy-hot, East Oakland style. Neung Phak back cover. Limited one-time pressing of copies, thick vinyl, and full color picture sleeve. The group was formed in by Mark Gergis and Peter Conheim, who along with Mark's brother Erik were exiled to the Bay Area from their native River Falls, Wisconsin after their employment with a local toy manufacturer went sour. Neung Phak is a delicious Lao dish containing steamed chicken, coconut milk, and banana leaves, but is also the tasty and exotic alter ego of Bay Area noise wizards Mono Pause , who in turn share members with absurdist cut and paste legends Negativland. The project originally came about via scads of music learned during the Gergis brothers' various trips to Southeast Asia, traceable specifically to the brothers having heard a Bangkok cover band "The Lucky Band" in a small bar doing one of the bouncy hits of Thai radio at that time , and the song was "Cheer" by the megalithic group Bazoo.

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Neung Phak's bedazzling debut, recorded with chanteuse Diana Hayes, is an almost incomprehensibly funky mish-mash of Southeast Asian pop and traditional melodies, served up spicy-hot, East Oakland style.

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phk Galvanized by exposure to thousands of South East Asian cassette tapes, LPs and radio broadcasts harvested during years of travels co-founder Mark Gergis is a key conspirator with international record label Sublime Frequenciesthe 7-piece group play folk and pop sounds from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam and elsewhere, using a variety of Western and non-Western instruments.

The damning "Fucking USA" was purportedly recorded nenug a North Korean studio -- and the epic retelling of the classic southern Thai-styled "Sat Chatri," closes down the LP in sprawling, psychedelic form. A heavy emphasis on instrumentals and improvisation percolates through their discography. San Francisco singer Diana Hayes completed the formation of this new group in This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: Neung Phak backsides the forefront once again!

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Stay where you are! Neung Phak back cover.

This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: Neung Phak front cover. Their disc is a track super-melange of styles, featuring a handful of guest musicians from the Bay Area and from as far away as Laos, with several original songs and improvisations rounding out the array of cover songs. The damning "Fucking USA" was purportedly recorded in a North Korean studio -- and the epic retelling of the classic southern Thai-styled "Sat Chatri" closes down the album in sprawling, psychedelic form.

Over the past decade, through various experimentations in lineup, the group has carved out a place for itself on the already quite damaged Bay Area underground scene home to such luminaries and friends as Thinking Fellers Union LocalFibulator, Ubzub, Fuck and many others through their resistance to sticking to any "format" or "sound". This is the first recording ever made by "Americans" in Pyongyang's Kim Studios — and it shows! Diana sings and plays bass in Dynasty whose CD was just issued on Tigerbeat and has also sung with the semi-legendary trash-rock combo The Roofies, and it was spying her at a Roofies concert which led Mono Pause to ask her to join them for the Neung Phak spin-off.

Neung Phak is a near-literal translation of Mono Pause, and Mono Pause has been one of the most consistently baffling and persistently impossible-to-categorize bands from the San Francisco Bay Area of recent times. On second thought, stay where you are and don't ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching pbak way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. Neung Phak is a delicious Lao dish containing steamed chicken, coconut milk, and banana leaves, but is also the tasty and exotic alter ego of Bay Area noise wizards Mono Pausewho in turn share members with absurdist cut and paste legends Negativland.

Neung Phak is the logical extension of this work. Limited one-time pressing of copies, thick vinyl, and full color picture sleeve. Web site by Spencer Sundell. Neung Phak delivers international sounds that trade the gloss and sheen of so-called "World Music" for the energy and unpredictability you can find when you're somewhere else. Neung Phak front cover Neung Phak back cover.

This vibrant explosion of color and hatred comes dressed to kill in a beautiful package on the thickest vinyl there is. Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia.

The group was formed in by Mark Gergis and Peter Conheim, who along with Mark's brother Erik were exiled to the Bay Area from their native River Falls, Wisconsin after their employment with a local toy manufacturer went sour. Massive research followed, digging up the source of the song they heard that night as well as a treasure trove of other types of music far beyond Thai pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase.

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pjak Limited edition one-time pressing of copies with download card. Known just as well for their highly theatrical stage shows, Mono Pause has always flirted with musics from other lands and sprinkled cover tunes and utter reworkings of such music sometimes of only a single melody learned phzk a fuzzy shortwave broadcast throughout their recorded history. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal.

After two releases on Abduction and several performances and tours, Neung Phak have returned with their second full-length studio LP.