It’s been eight years since Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band released their last studio album Planet Lam, in 2016. This followed their debut album 21st Century Molam, released in 2014. In early December, the band soft-launched a vinyl version of their new album Arayalam on the Zudrangma Records label.
Lockdowns, travel bans and the social and economic disruption that followed Covid-19 took their toll on the entertainment industry, and while this led to delays in releasing new recordings, band leader and co-producer (with percussionist Chris Menist) DJ Maft Sai said in an interview last week that the band has been quietly recording lots of tracks (he plans to release more experiments from a backlog of recorded tracks as EPs later this year).
Maft Sai explained that the first album in 2014 introduced a “new sound” for the 21st century, rooted in Isan’s molam…
