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Make music even if nobody buys it. That’s the idea behind Black Music History… before the market, a talk on the third floor of The Corner House, the century-old orange building where Charoen Krung Road meets Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem. People sang long before record labels and streaming apps, and they’ll keep singing after them.
Your guide is Julian Cary, academic director at 1500 Sound Academy Thailand and a former lecturer at Silpakorn University’s Faculty of Music. Students call him Ajarn Julian. A working producer, he’s also easy company and quick with a joke. His story of Black music, born of struggle, runs from work songs, songs of comfort and calling songs in churches all the way to hip hop and K-pop. And why did we ever split it up by category in the first place? Because music and art come from people living side by side.
Afterwards, No ref left club opens the floor, asking which stories, scents and sounds the room craves right now. Expect a proper back-and-forth rather than a polite Q&A.
Such A Small World usually runs as a co-playing café, with board games, a 16-seat cinema and a listening station stocked with more than 6,500 records, so turn up early and flick through a few sleeves. The bar sells drinks and snacks for breaking the ice, a photobooth handles the souvenirs and the crowd mixes mates, crate-diggers and solo Bangkokians after some company. Come alone if you like. You probably won’t leave that way.
The talk runs on Sat Oct 17 at Such A Small World, The Corner House Bangkok. Tickets cost B499 via here, with details in your confirmation email.
The nearest piers are Marine Department and Si Phraya, and MRT Hua Lamphong (Exit 1) is about 900 metres away.