LA-011 Su Wai - Gita Pon Yeik New Arrivals A self-taught singer and harmonium

A self-taught singer and harmonium player

and ethereal organ tones serve to lift Sebsibe’s golden voice to celestial heights even as her firm roots in Ethiopian traditional music keep the music terrestrially planted

Wai unfurls clusters of melodic lines alongside a cyclical bell chime-pulse to accompany texts drawn from the Mahagita

but very few have heard the original versions

Recorded in masterful fidelity by Burmese ethnomusicologist Rick Heizman (White Elephants and Golden Ducks

LA-011 Su Wai - Gita Pon Yeik New Arrivals A self-taught singer and harmoniumSu Wai is a modern virtuoso of the ancient Saung Gauk, a Burmese harp instrument of both royal and religious significance (fashioned to resemble a leaf of the bo tree which the Buddha attained enlightenment beneath) with roots as far back as the 6th century. In this collection of 8 traditional poem songs, Wai unfurls clusters of melodic lines alongside a cyclical bell chime pulse to accompany texts drawn from the Mahagita, a collection of 500 court