Aroon Thaewchatturat

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Moken Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea
   
Moken houseboats, "Kabang"
     
Sea Gypsies, Surin Islands, Thailand
  
 
Moken houseboat, "Kabang"
Saleh and children, Surin Islands, Thailand
             
   

The sea gypsies of the Andaman Sea are great singers and story-tellers Their idiosyncratic music sounds across deserted tropical beached whenever these seafaring nomads stay on any of the thousands of islands that are dotted along Myanmar (formerly Burma)’s and Thailand’s west coast.

Full Text by Tom Vater www.tomvater.com
             
             
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The British Library Moken Music CD

 
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Fortean Times
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