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Todd
(·Í§´Õ) Lavelle & Thailand’s (click
for thai version) Todd (·Í§´Õ) Lavelle, possibly Thailand’s most renowned foreigner, author of 20+ original books, 10+ CD’s of original “Real Music for Real People”, has just completed mastering “Back to the Beach”, a brand new CD, Book and Mini-Movie based on travels and work on Thailand’s “Islands of Ecstasy”. As always, Todd begins his musical journey with stories-of war and nature, Full-Moon Parties, transvestite hunters, fishermen & their new catches, or simply the beauty of myth combined with the waves and shore. The music of Back to the Beach however, breaks new ground in the genre Todd calls “S.I.M.M.S. Music” or “stories in myriad musical settings”. With the wild musical input of producer Sanu Wannaporn, Todd combines jazz, blues, rock and acoustic beauty with drum loops and other-worldly soundscapes pasted, mixed and subtly presented in a seamless musical tapestry full of colors. From the naked beauty of “Solace” Todd invites us to the grand balladry of “SeaMyth”, from the uplifting “Horizon Eyes” to balls-out rockers like BullRun and Blackened Blues. As one DJ has reviewed Back to the BEach, “nature never sounded so fun, so full of life and color”. Over two years in the making, Back to the Beach is the result of extensive time spent in interactive performance throughout Thailand’s islands-mostly in Koh Samui. This interaction involved talks on sex, drugs, nature and family at schools and villages, extensive interviews and laugh-ins with fishermen, businesspeople (both legal and not), transvestites, travelers, even monkeys, waves and the Great Mother and True owner of “ Back to the Beach”, the ocean herself. The result is this CD of music, a book of poetry, a book of stories, a full range of nature and people-focused video and still pictures, even an original water-color series by Anan Prapaso. Come
with us, “Back to Love, Back to Mind, back to Heart, I think the ocean’s
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