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Hucky Eichelmann
ASEAN GUITAR - Fusion of South East Asian Music
AMI Records is proud to announce Hucky Eichelmann’s new album titled “ASEAN Guitar – Fusion of
Sount East Asian Music”. A music video titled after Hucky’s own thrilling composition TECHNO
TOEY has been produced to promote this outstanding album.
The album features stunning musical selection from the ten ASEAN countries - Brunei, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - aiming to
bridge the native musical traditions within the region through the filter of contemporary musical
consciousness and today’s modern way of life in these rapidly emerging countries.
Hucky has over three decades relationship with ASEAN countries, releasing bestseller albums such
as With Love From Asia (2000), Gamgah Gamgah (1984 and 2003) and Magical Melodies of
Thailand (2010).
The ASEAN GUITAR album has been produced as musical contribution towards the integration of
ASEAN states. “The music is in no way meant to be scientific research nor an ethnological study
but simply a fun selection of well-known traditional folk, popular and contemporary music from
the region, composed and arranged for the ever so popular guitar, an instrument which itself is
such a perfect medium for a conversation between musical language and styles.” Hucky said.
Many of the pieces are equally popular in more than one country and in many cases it is quite hard
to tell where the melodies actually originate from; but what all of the pieces on this album have in
common is that distinctive ASEAN flavor, which is characterised by mesmerising repetitive rhythms
and the mystifying melodic charm and sweetness which differentiates music from ASEAN countries
from the rest of the world.
The audiophile quality album has been recorded by Shane Edwards, one of Australia’s foremost
sound masters who now works at Karma Sound Studio in Bang Saray during 14-16 January 2015.
ASEAN GUITAR includes fascinating renditions of 16 compositions and arrangements:
Indonesia:
Burung Kakak Tua & Menghitung Hari
Thailand:
Techno Toey & Duan Phen
Vietnam:
Dạ cổ hoài lang & Trống Cơm
Laos:
Charm Par Meuang Lao & Lam Salawan
Myanmar:
Mya Man Giri
Philippines:
Anak & Kapilas na Giting
Brunei:
Adai-Adai - Naindong
Malaysia:
Rojak
Singapore:
Count on me, Singapore
Cambodia:
Brise de Novembre & Champa Battambang
Composers are Bayani Mendoza de Leon, Asani Polachan, Cao Văn Lầu, Uttama Chounramany,
Prince of Pyinsi, Freddy Aquilar, Hugh Harrison, S.A.R. Norodom Sihanouk and Hucky Eichelmann.
Arrangers include: Sophon Juntaramittree, Rick Heizman, Choke Yuan Teng, Alex Abisheganaden
and Graeme Taylor.
The ASEAN GUITAR project has been released as CD, LP (180 Gram Virgin Vinyl) and a 56
page Sheet Music Book. Release date for LP (Vinyl) is is set for mid June 2015.
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To ensure utmost superior audiophile quality the following equipment has been used for the
recording:
Console + DAW
Solid State Logic 4056 E/G+
Digidesign HD3 Accel
Pro Tools HD 10
Bit Rate: 24Bit Sample Rate: 44.1Khz
Dynamics:
None
Effects:
Lexicon 960L
Room Characteristics:
Floor - Wood
Wall (Left Side) - Stone
Wall (Front) Glass 30% / Wood 70%
Wall Behind - Glass 60% / Wood 40%
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AMI Records produced a music video named after Hucky’s own composition
TECHNO TOEY to promote the album
ASEAN GUITAR – Fusion of South East Asian Music
Hucky Eichelmann - Techno Toey
Techno Toey was born on Christmas Eve during a meditation session at Bang Saray
Beach, where a techno monster truck suddenly and most indecently interfered with
a peaceful Thai folk music Hucky was listening to from a nearby Buddhist temple. It
was a true clash of cultures and attitudes which refused to leave the composer’s
mind until the day he wrote down the memories of this quite shocking experience.
Thai traditional music, represented by the north-eastern folk tune “Toey Khong”,
interwoven with “Jingle Bells” and pulsating techno rhythms finally teaming up to
become a thundering guitar thriller.
Musical Ambassador between East and West
Pioneer of Classical Guitar in Thailand
Hucky Eichelmann is a guitarist, arranger and composer of exceptional ability with his focus set
towards the East. His stunning virtuosity has allows him to work with some of the world’s top
musicians, including Ravi Shankar, KITARO, Richard Harvey, Nina Corti, Carlos Bonell, Xuefei
Yang and perform alongside such legends as John Williams, Paco Peña, Los Angeles Guitar
Quartet & David Russell to name but a few. As a producer he has worked closely with the
Stuttgart Ballet, CHICO & The Gypsies (formerly Gipsie Kings), Martin Taylor, Pat Metheny,
George Winston and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal a.m.
Hucky’s professional career spans over four decades. He has toured globally and performed at
the world’s top venues including a concert at United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Born in Sulzburg, which is part of Germany’s musically vibrant southwest region, Hucky earned
his master’s degree in classical music at the State Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts in
Stuttgart, Germany. He performed thousands of concerts and hundreds of workshops and
master classes around the world. In Thailand he taught at the St. Cecilia Academy of Music,
Chulalongkorn University and Mahidol University.
Adopting Thailand as his home he started developing his own Asia oriented musical repertoire
with which he has freed the classical guitar of its niche image and has fully explored the
instrument’s versatility.
With his fascinating programs ranging from Bach to disco, Asian favourites to ragtime, Spanish
and South American rhythms to Royal lullabies he has thrilled audiences around the globe and
he continues to enrich the instrument’s repertoire with his own compositions and
arrangements for which the international media hails him as “Musical Ambassador between
East and West.” In Thailand Hucky’s popularity is closely associated with the music of His
Majesty the King.
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His amazing skills, inventiveness, showmanship and his contributions to Thai society earned
him the household name ‘godfather of classical guitar’ and made him a pioneer of the guitar
movement in Thailand.
Besides his artistic work he pioneered the development of music and dance as Artistic Director
of the Bangkok International Guitar Festival & Series (1984-1989) and the Thailand Festival of
the Arts (1997-2000), Thailand’s first ever arts festival which inaugurated a new dimension to
Thailand’s art and cultural scene.
Hucky’s popular annual Thailand tour to universities and other venues in regional Thailand has
created an enormous outreach entertainment and education presence, including getting
valuable insight and a positive message out to young people and his large group of devoted
fans. For Hucky music is a wonderful tool to create peace and a meaningful way of life, and he
is delighted to share his music with the world. His series of sheet music books and his guitar
technique method FINGER WORKS have become standard works of the guitar curriculum.
Website: www.huckyeichelmann.com
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