Drunken Foreigner Band - White Guy Disease (Original Soundtrack)

Limited vinyl LP pressing. Drunken Foreigner Band's debut album White Guy Disease is a sprawling electrified iteration of the Akha and Lam Lao musics of Thailand and Laos. The majority of the band's music was learned from cassette tapes of the largely-vocal music traditions, gathered by keyboardist Dave Kadden on his trips to Southeast Asia. The band lives up to it's name, both in it's unrestrained energy and acknowledgement of the cultural remove between the U.S.-born members and the Southeast Asian source material. Neither educational nor exploitative, the reverence and enthusiasm go hand in hand.