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Fred Garratt-Stanley

“It’s a transcendental collision between American prog rock and Thai folk charm, straight from rural Phetchabun”: How Khun Narin pioneered Thai sound system rock using former US military loudspeakers

Khunnarin.

When the US Army was forced to withdraw from Vietnam in 1975 — also departing northern Thailand, a key strategic area packed with US military bases — they left a complex and troubling legacy behind.

They also left behind an array of equipment, from vehicles and communications infrastructure to Cobreflex horn loudspeakers that later found new life as village public-address systems.

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