GPD025 นายต๋าคำ ชัยวินา

This is a copy of a tape given to me by Ajan Graisri, a Chiang Mai banker and folklorist, who recorded Nai TaKam four years before I arrived in Chiang Mai. He heard of my later recordings of the same man and gave me these for comparison. Tum ธรรม and Gun กัณฑ์ refer to Buddhist texts recited by monks. The blind minstrel Nai TaKum recites them by memory with Sueng accompaniment. These two Tum episodes relate events in the life of the Lord Buddha in the incarnation before he was enlightened, as I understand it. Nai TaKum (translates to “Golden Eye”) had committed a vast amount of Lanna lore to memory. I believe he was the only one alive who could recite these texts with instrumental accompaniment.