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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

364 - Greg Simmons (Endangered Music)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2019

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Greg is a sound engineer who is working hard to try to save some of the endangered music of Asia. We met on Ko Phayam, Thailand, where he’s spent a lot of time with the Moken people (aka “Sea Gypsies”) who have been living on shore since the tsunami swept away their boats in 2004. Greg leads small groups on trips in India, Nepal, Laos, and elsewhere, recording songs and languages that are in danger of being lost forever.

You can learn more about Greg’s work here and here.

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0:00.0

The old couple I recorded had almost the same story. They're trying to teach

0:03.3

you music to the young people, the young people aren't either rested. It's the same

0:06.2

story. There's no one to pass it on to. And so that kind of cemented the whole

0:13.1

thing in place from this idea of what I call in danger music.

0:30.0

Hello, Chris. I'm Hui, a Portuguese guy living in Berlin and I'm now laying on my balcony,

0:53.6

looking at the sky, trying to sleep. I thinking about what I should do with my time,

1:04.5

I quit my job and I can't decide if I should go traveling or if I should try to

1:11.0

make it with my psychedelic rock band. I don't know if I can find the answers on

1:18.2

on the clouds. They're above me now, but when I think I know for sure every time I lay the mattress

1:24.6

here on the balcony, I sleep under this guy. I get this deep sense of belonging, of coming back home.

1:34.9

It's magical. Thanks for everything you do, man. I'll see you around.

1:42.2

Hey, Chris. This is Charlie Collins from Vermont, sitting on the shores of Lake Champlain,

1:51.7

staring across the lake at the silhouette of the Adirondack Mountains,

1:57.7

puffy white clouds against a blue backdrop. About 95 degrees and I'm about to go cool off in the lake.

2:08.2

Been a big fan of the podcast for a long time. Thanks for doing what you're doing.

2:14.0

Really appreciate it. Be well.

2:19.5

Hello, Chris. My name is Roxy Blankenbaker. I'm your friendly neighborhood

2:25.9

tranny and a trailer. I'm a transgender woman living in a small RV trailer in Voicy Idaho.

2:35.5

It's just sitting on the side of a house next to my cookie neighbor. I just want to let you know

2:42.1

that I love your podcast, love everything about it, and what you do. It's really opened up my

2:50.1

perspective to life and information. It just so happens. I'm coming up on my one-year anniversary

2:59.3

February 6th for hormone replacement therapy and thought I would just share this moment and

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