GET THE MUSIC

Begin your own exploration of the music, starting anywhere. The music is accessible, even to English-only speakers, in the United States through Amazon Music and most other streaming services. My smart speaker can’t understand Thai, so there is no point in asking for songs by their Thai names. The easiest work around is to tell your smart speaker “Play ‘Made in Thailand’ by Carabao (“Carabao” coincidentally sounds like “Care about” without the “t”). Or even just say, “Play ‘Made in Thailand'”. This almost always works. Then for more songs, say “Play other songs by this artist.”

For Add Carabao’s solo work, which you will also want, say “Play songs by Add Carabao”, pronouncing “Add” as the English word “add” (if you pronounce it correctly, more like “at”, the smart speaker does not understand). Then say, “Play other songs by this artist.” That should work, but if it doesn’t work, know that a song from his most recent album is “UFO” in English, a recent compilation album is called “Poem” in English, and an older album is titled “World Folk Zen.” Beware that the song “UFO” drops the F-bomb, but if you get “UFO,” say “play other songs from this album” because the most recent album is excellent and a good introduction to Add Carabao’s solo work. If you get the albums “Poem” or “World Folk Zen” you should listen to those whole albums before saying, “play other songs by this artist.”

From Amazon Music you can purchase any song. I’m sure it’s the same for the other music streaming services.

If for any reason you still buys CDs, you will enjoy shopping for Carabao music, as well as other Thai CDs, DVDs, and books, at eThaiCD.com, where you can shop in English. You can write to the staff in English and they are extremely helpful. I have been shopping there for 10 years.

CARABAO and ADD CARABAO ALBUMS REVIEWED (0-5 stars)

Very few of the 60 or so Carabao and Add Carabao albums are reviewed below. Some of the best albums are NOT reviewed below. The selection is quite random. These are albums I was in the mood to write about. They are almost always first impressions that I do not return to except to link newly translated songs.

Album cover of "Poem"